Client Manager

About us:

At Design Bridge and Partners, part of WPP, we design brands with the power to move. Pulling people towards them with an irresistible force that compels and connects. With 900 creative minds across 17 studios worldwide, diverse in expertise, experience, backgrounds and beliefs, we are united in our ambition to achieve real impact for our clients’ brands benefiting their business, people and the planet.

With expertise across brand strategy, brand design, brand engagement and brand effectiveness our clients across the world include NASA Artemis, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Mastercard, Intel, HSBC, Tencent, Twitch, Heineken, Reckitt and the BBC.

About WPP:

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

About the role:

Are you an agency-side client services professional who understands how great brand ideas become effective communications? We’re looking for a Client Manager to help deliver integrated work for some of the world’s leading drinks and CPG brands. Working alongside Senior Client Managers, Client Directors, strategists, designers, creatives and production teams, you’ll help take projects from brief through concept, development, production, adaptation and launch.

You’ll manage the day-to-day delivery of projects and specific workstreams, helping to keep teams aligned, timelines moving and clients informed. Projects may span brand platforms, advertising, social and content, digital, OOH, retail, experiential and packaging, often across multiple markets. You’ll contribute to briefs, presentations and creative development, coordinate feedback and approvals, and support the delivery of work that is creatively ambitious, commercially effective and produced to a high standard.

This is an opportunity to take real ownership while continuing to develop your client leadership, communications and production expertise within an experienced and collaborative team.

About you:

You’ll bring solid client services or account management experience from a brand, creative, design or integrated communications agency, with experience supporting or delivering campaigns from initial brief through to production. You’ll understand how effective communications are developed and brought to life. From defining deliverables and briefing creative teams to managing feedback, production partners, approvals and multi-market adaptations. Experience across drinks, food or wider CPG/FMCG is highly desirable, ideally alongside exposure to packaging and consumer brand development.

You’ll be organised, proactive and confident managing day-to-day client relationships and project activity. You’ll be comfortable contributing to presentations, discussing creative work and helping teams solve challenges, while knowing when to seek guidance from more senior colleagues. An understanding of budgets, timings, scopes and risks is important, as is the ability to manage multiple priorities without losing sight of the creative ambition.

You’ll be curious, collaborative and calm under pressure, with genuine communications and production experience and the confidence to take ownership of your work. Above all, you’ll be keen to build trusted relationships, contribute to great brand work and continue growing within a supportive, high-performing team.

Why us?

We’re passionate about our people and their careers. We’ll help you develop your skills and provide you with outstanding benefits. So you’ll have a chance to make your mark on our future, as we make a mark on yours. We’re proud to be the world’s most awarded brand design agency, with 28 Cannes Lions to our name and Creative Review Annual’s Most Creative Design Agency of the Year 2024. You’ll get to take new projects to award-winning potential, as part of a connected team of brilliant, tenacious people right by your side and across the world.

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

Design Bridge and Partners, a WPP company, is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

Due to the volume of applications, we unfortunately can only respond to successful candidates.

We will not accept unsolicited CVs or approaches via recruitment agencies.