Growth Director

We are a leading creative and performance agency seeking a seasoned business development director to drive our agency’s new business development. As an ambassador of our work and services, you’ll have previous experience in an agency environment in order to play a critical part in our direct business development activity and lead our strategic approach. 

Working with: 

• Working directly with the CEO and Brand Director as part of the senior business development team, as well as a business development manager. 
• Marketing working group to help plan and manage marketing activity across paid, owned and earned channels.
• Client Services team to help onboard and grow new accounts. 
• Operational and financial services teams for financial reporting. 

Key responsibilities: 

• Lead all outbound new business activity, developing a clear strategic roadmap for success that is linked to our business plan and revenue targets. 
• Identify and profile potential new clients for retained and project work, ensuring that all departments are serviced. 
• Work collaboratively with our Brand Director to support where required on intermediary activity and inbound opportunities. 
• Work with the client services team as part of the pitch process, ensuring a smooth onboarding for new clients and providing growth support for the initial period. 
• Support on developing further our pitch qualification and implementation process to maximise efficiency and outcomes. 
• Working in a cross-department group, build out marketing plans and activity that focuses on lead generation. 
• Provide clear reports on performance and pipeline, attending weekly commercial meetings and quarterly operational board meetings. 
• Develop, manage and mentor the business development manager and any future hires, focussing on building a positive, results-driven culture. 
• Ensuring new business CRM activity is kept up to date and accurate. 

You will have: 

• Proven success in new business development within an agency environment, ideally with a minimum 3 years in a business development role as well as a further 2 years in a different role such as client services. 
• Strong ability to identify and engage new client opportunities. 
• Strategic mindset with a results-oriented approach. 
• Strong diplomatic skills and the capacity to build relationships across all levels. 
• Ambition, creativity, and a keen eye for spotting opportunities. 
• Exceptional organisational and analytical capabilities. 
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. 
• Comfort in building and nurturing informal networks to achieve goals. 
• Collaborative team player. 
• Familiarity with industry-standard tools and platforms. 

Your rewards 

As well as a competitive salary and bonus structure, you will receive: 

• 24 days holiday plus 3 days over Christmas. 
• 5.5 life balance days (a half day each month except for Dec to do whatever you want). 
• An additional holiday for each year of service, up to a total of 5 extra days. 
• Early finish on a Friday. 
• The option to buy an extra week’s holiday. 
• Private health insurance which covers pre-existing conditions, cancer care and gives cashback for routine optical and dental treatments. 
• Life assurance. 
• Pension scheme. 
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay. 
• £1000 for a referring a new hire. 

 And we offer: 

• Working from our Manchester office with some flexibility for hybrid working. 
• Access to a personal trainer/nutritionist, free fruit, and breakfast. 
• Mental health support and access to professional therapists through ‘Spill’. 
• Twice yearly peer feedback and performance reviews, tailored personal development plans and objectives. 
• Access to industry accredited professional qualifications through our IPA membership.  
• Employee voice, we consult our people on matters affecting them and encourage participation in surveys, our suggestions box and employee awards. 
• A social buddy, monthly agency socials and events put on by our culture committee. 
• Monthly Lunch & Learn events to gain more understanding of different facets of agency life. 
• All supported by a culture driven by great work, team collaboration, passion, honesty, and mutual respect for everyone. 

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 

We had always thought our business was open and inclusive. Afterall, one of our values is “Everyone matters”. We hammer home the behaviour of treating everyone with respect, seeing things from the other person’s perspective, understanding that everyone has different values, responsibilities, concerns, families. 

But when you delve a little deeper into Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, this value is a great place to start but it involves so much more. 

Here at TrunkBBI, we naturally welcome difference. It’s what gives us strength as a business, the wide breadth of experience, capabilities, and perspectives. And any creative business knows that the best ideas don’t come from just one place. Diversity is important, but we feel what makes the real difference is inclusivity, or the act of helping people feel valued and enabled regardless of their differences. 

We have really then only just begun our diversity and inclusivity journey. We started by ensuring everyone has mandatory training to help people understand what it means to be inclusive. We’ve set up a panel of people within the business to champion difference and we have ambassadors who are gaining their IPA D, E & I certifications. We continue to learn and evolve, and realise that this is not a quick win, or a ‘one and done’. 

We are adapting our practices, offering home working, flexibility around start times, offer monthly life-balance days, offer access to mental health professionals, assess our working spaces to accommodate brilliant neurodivergent minds. And will continue to evolve to enable the difference around us. 

If you want to join our great team, please send an email and your CV to careers@trunkbbi.com  

About TrunkBBI 

TrunkBBI is an integrated marketing agency focused on creating engaging, immersive and highly creative experiences for brands. We are a collaboration of some of the top names from network and bespoke agencies, brought together to deliver a boutique experience and service to clients. 

Unique in our approach and our desire to do things differently, we build client teams that combine the best of abilities in design, dev, tech, content, engagement and performance. Our belief in our approach ensures we produce brilliant results for clients.