Business Director

About the role:

Our client services team is the team that brings Bicycle’s full suite of services together. We are searching for a Business Director who will work in an integrated, fast-pace, high-growth team reporting to the Chief Client Officer.

You will be responsible for leading a team that devises and delivers best in class media experiences on a fast-growing list of clients, easily switching from traditional paid media and all paid digital channels, to owned or earned media.

Alongside this we are also actively generating new creative platforms and creative work for a number of our clients. As our services grow in this area, our vision is to help our client leads to become full service operators - we want to be a new breed and skill set that simply doesn’t exist in any other agency environment.

Opportunities to learn and grow your skill set, to evolve our culture and business are ripe.

We’re looking for an optimistic, versatile, flexible and creative thinker with a keen sense of curiosity. You should have excellent multitasking skills, and an impeccable understanding of all elements of paid media and how brands operate. You’ll be in constant contact with your clients – be that by email, phone, or in regular face-to-face meetings – meaning that you’re always drawing on your excellent written and spoken communication skills, as well as your innate ability to forge strong relationships on behalf of Bicycle.

Playing a senior role within our fast growth environment means we will look for your view on how best to run our business, and we pride ourselves on properly rewarding our riders for their contribution to our growth.

Key tasks will include:

● Being a credible and trusted advisor to our clients at all levels across paid media and beyond

● Supporting the agency in maintaining a thorough understanding of your clients’ sectors and market trends, thus positioning Bicycle as experts in the area

● Providing our clients with your expert knowledge and educating them on changes in the industry and of new solutions and services

● Understanding of how to leverage client’s 1PD, CRM and leveraging 2PD from data partners - good understanding of the data landscape

● Coordinating the preparation of client-facing presentations, and delivering them clearly and compellingly

● Adapting fluidly to or learning to manage new types of briefs

● Leading the team in creating campaigns, plans and delivery forecasts across all channels

● Leading and supporting the channel specialists in translating the communication strategy into plan and execution

● Identifying opportunities for, and playing an active role in agency & business development e.g. involvement in new business, improving agency processes, raising the agency profile/reputation.

● Keeping a keen eye on our clients’ commercial value to the agency, forecasting revenue on a monthly and yearly basis and up or cross-selling relevant services and channels whenever the opportunity arises.

This role requires someone who is entrepreneurial and can lead, advise and influence clients at all level Good hands on knowledge of key digital channels, along with a proven track record of deploying a holistic communications strategy and planning projects from brief through execution is essential.

Keen cyclists are welcome.