Vice President, New Business

About Spark Foundry:

Spark Foundry is a global media agency that exists to bring HEAT – Higher Engagement, Affinity, and Transactions – to brands. By combining flawless media fundamentals with aggressive innovation, Spark inspires consumers to pay more attention, to care more about our clients’ brands, and to buy more products and services from them.

Balancing the nimble spirit of a startup with the powerhouse soul of Publicis Media, Spark Foundry delivers the best of both worlds to a client roster that spans some of the world’s best and most beloved brands and companies. We combine boutique-caliber insights and service with the buying clout and first-look access of a global leader, bringing the heat to challenger brands that want to act like giants, and to giant brands that want to act like challengers.

With a bottom-up culture that celebrates diversity and aims for all voices to be heard, Spark has become a magnet for the industry’s best talent, with one of the best retention rates in the industry. And by applying a whole-person approach to professional and personal development, Spark develops a workforce that is well prepared for today’s challenges, and also poised to create meaningful careers in the years to come.

Because we know that heat arises the intersection of complementary forces, our professionals come from myriad disciplines and backgrounds: data, analytics, and insights, content and creative production, communications and strategy, finance and marketing, and sociology, psychology, and other liberal arts disciplines.

Role Overview:

To accelerate our growth, we are looking for a strategic, proactive, and well-organized leader to drive new thinking and deliver truly innovative work. Reporting into the Chief Growth Officer, this role will help lead the development of pitch presentations, materials, and communications to deliver new and organic business acquisition to deliver on our aggressive growth goals. We’re looking for an ambitious individual to fill this role – someone who isn’t afraid to share their ideas and opinions within a supportive and collaborative work environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and organize pitch teams in answering RFI/RFP questions, chasing responses, editing responses, and preparing pitch presentations
• Lead and support the development of pitch presentations including critiquing and editing media plan content, brainstorming big ideas for pitch theater, and developing the pitch “story”
• Manage and motivate the pitch team while guiding and enabling pitch timelines, checkpoints, accountabilities, deliverables, design, production, and travel needs
• Collaborate and lead communications with local, regional, and global teammates, stakeholders, departments, and agencies
• Actively participate in presentation rehearsals by preparing presenters, ensuring key message points are hit and the pitch “story” is clear, concise, and strategic, always tying back to the brief and our differentiated story
• Identify new ways to drive innovation and efficiency within the pitch process and amongst the Growth team
• Experience working with and managing c suite at the agency level.
• Manage, coach, and develop junior Growth team talent depending on final team structure
• Establish strong, collaborative connections with client and team members to work seamlessly together

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  Relevant successful experience – 10 + years in the media, marketing, communications, or consulting fields
• Strong communication skills – Manage strategic written and verbal communications with a keen focus on soliciting feedback and driving consensus
• Forward-thinker – Proactive; understand what will be needed and drive against it
• Superb project and time management skills with the ability to operate in a fast-moving, high-pressure environment comfortably and effectively
• Ability to establish productive working relationships and champion collaboration and discussion
• Detail-oriented, review and ensure accuracy of outputs, data, and storylines
• Innovation at the core, confidently brings forth new thinking, approaches, and capabilities
• Ability to drive simplification and clarify complex concepts, constructs, and language for clients and teams alike

This is a hybrid role, requiring three days in-office each week. If you are contacted for an interview, your recruiter will discuss specifics with you, inclusive of any necessary reasonable accommodations.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact hrcompliance_usms@publicis.com.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation Range: $143,000-$225,000 annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. For this role, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 04/15/2024.

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