Managing Partner/General Manager - Ad Agency

Description:

Position Description:

- Collaborate with the founders in driving organizational vision and culture across the entire organisation.

- Grow the business by developing and executing sound idea driven solutions consistently for a variety of clients and persistently help develop quality output.

- Assist in setting the annual budget and plans, lead in tracking and course correcting on an ongoing basis to deliver on quarterly and annual top line and bottom-line targets.

- New client acquisition, retention, operational excellence, and profitability.

- Mentorship and leadership to all employees.

- Measure effectiveness and efficiency of operational processes both internally and externally.

- Bring in best practices of account management, strategic planning, creative development and organisation building and evangelize them throughout the company, wherever needed.

- Help to generate new business streams and opportunities.

- Lead and demonstrate excellence in implementation.

- Ensure best in class external documentation, pitch presentations, commercial and legal agreements.

- Positioning the agency appropriately amongst clients, talent.

- Become the face of the agency.

Candidate Profile:

- Mumbai based MBA / post graduate, with overall experience of 14-18 years, of which at least the most recent 6 MUST be in advertising in account management/client servicing.

- Opportunity will be ideal for someone who is entrepreneurial, ambitious and wants to start/ run an agency with empowerment.

- Must be comfortable in working in a small set up and growing it.

- Strong and proven track record of new business.

- Track record of new business, with proven success of building brands and relationships with decision makers.

- Must have demonstrated evidence of building teams in a reputed mid-sized or large agency.

- Conversant in the digital ecosystem: content, social, media, automation, martech, and how they come together for business outcomes.

- Enthusiastic about technology and emerging trends like AI, GenAI, and ML, not as mere buzzwords, but as tools that shape the future of marketing.