Client Planning Director
dentsu Austria
Project Director – Brand Engagement
Radley Yeldar
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Lead
About the role
- Lead and inspire cross-functional teams across creative, strategy, digital and client services to deliver standout work for our clients.
- Oversee triage and planning, assessing feasibility, risks, timing, budgets and deliverables before a project begins.
- Champion commercial awareness – managing budgets, tracking profitability, and communicating financial performance to clients and senior stakeholders.
- Manage change with confidence, proactively advising clients on how scope shifts impact timings, deliverables and budgets.
- Build trusted client relationships, acting as a calm, confident partner alongside our Client director, who balances strategic understanding with day-to-day delivery.
- Foster team growth, supporting career development and ensuring your team has the tools, clarity and confidence to perform at their best.
- Drive process improvement, identifying ways to make how we work even better and encouraging adoption across the business.
- Spot growth opportunities to bring RY’s full offering to clients - helping them see how our strategic, creative and digital capabilities can strengthen their communications.
Requirements
- Proven experience delivering large-scale branding and campaign projects (both internal and external) in a creative or communications agency.
- Experience in building relationships and growing clients.
- A natural leader and collaborator with line management experience who brings the best out of those around them,
- Confidence in commercial management, including billing accuracy, profitability tracking and proactive client reporting.
- Strong stakeholder management skills - comfortable working with senior client teams, third-party suppliers and technical specialists.
- Excellent communication and presentation abilities, with an authentic and engaging style that inspires trust.
- A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset - balancing creativity with pragmatism and always striving for better ways of working.
- Brings energy and positivity to the team - helping to build and add to a culture where people feel valued, motivated, and inspired to do great work and develop in their career.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
project managementbudget managementprofitability trackingbrandingcampaign managementstakeholder managementclient reportingprocess improvementchange managementrisk assessment
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationcommunicationpresentationrelationship buildingproblem-solvingcreativitypositivityteam developmentstrategic thinking
