BUSINESS DIRECTOR
BLKJ Havas is looking for a Business Director who drives business growth, deepens senior client partnerships, and shapes the strategic direction of highvalue accounts. You will act as a trusted advisor to clients, lead transformative work, and ensure the agency delivers innovative, awardwinning campaigns that create measurable business impact.
As a senior leader within the agency, you are accountable for commercial performance, strategic ambition, and building longterm value for both our clients and the business.
Job Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership & Direction
- Define and drive strategic communications plans across multiple highvalue accounts, aligned to client business objectives and market dynamics.
- Champion innovation and thought leadership by integrating emerging trends, AIdriven solutions, technology, and data into client strategies.
- Oversee the development of holistic, integrated solutions across ATL, BTL, digital, social, experiential, and beyond.
Client Partnership & Business Growth
- Build and nurture seniorlevel client relationships, positioning the agency as a strategic growth partner.
- Identify and lead opportunities for organic growth, account expansion, and new business development.
- Ensure longterm client satisfaction, retention, and commercial value through proactive leadership.
Commercial & Operational Excellence
- Take full ownership of account profitability, including revenue forecasting, budget management, and margin optimisation.
- Drive operational efficiency and scalable processes across account teams. Contribute to agencywide financial planning, performance reviews, and leadership discussions.
Leadership & Talent Development
- Lead, mentor, and inspire your team members, building a culture of collaboration, creativity, and high performance.
- Oversee resourcing, succession planning, and career development across teams.
- Promote strong crossfunctional integration with creative, strategy, and production partners.
Creative & Campaign Oversight
- Provide senior oversight and direction on all creative work and integrated campaign executions.
- Lead highimpact workshops, ideation sessions, and seniorlevel client presentations.
- Ensure postcampaign evaluations deliver actionable insights and clearly demonstrate ROI.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in marketing Communications, Business, or related field.
- 10+ years of experience in integrated marketing or creative communications, with proven success in leading regional or multi-market accounts.
- Strong commercial acumen with experience managing P&L and driving business growth.
- Exceptional strategic thinking, leadership, and communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to manage large teams and complex client portfolios.
- Passion for creativity, innovation, and delivering measurable business results.
- Familiarity with emerging marketing technologies, AI-driven solutions, data analytics, and performance-driven approaches.
About BLKJ Havas
BLKJ Havas is a creative company that engineers marketing moments for brands in culture, entertainment and media. Powered by the global network of Vivendi including Lagardère, CANAL+, Prisma Media, Gameloft, and Dailymotion, we pride ourselves as the unadvertising agency. Because people hate advertising and we love people.
Here at Havas, we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual's ability to perform their job.
