Senior Business Director

Join Translation as a Senior Business Director, where you will lead a significant client partnership and drive measurable business impact. You will serve as a strategic advisor to senior clients, lead integrated teams, and shape strategic agendas. This role requires a strong understanding of contemporary culture, exceptional business judgment, and the ability to inspire multidisciplinary teams.

• Assurer la santé, la performance, la croissance et les relations avec les clients pour un compte national phare.
• Servir de conseiller stratégique de confiance pour les parties prenantes de niveau directeur, en influençant les décisions et en remettant en question les clients de manière constructive.
• Développer et mettre en œuvre la stratégie de croissance organique, en identifiant et en convertissant les opportunités à travers les parties prenantes.

• Sound prioritization and decision-making skills in a high-volume, fast-moving, and highly visible client environment
• Cultural fluency and a strong understanding of how contemporary culture, audiences, and communities influence brands and business
• Proven experience owning senior client relationships, complex integrated campaigns, organic growth, account economics, and cross-functional team leadership for a major consumer brand
• Executive presence and communication skills, including the ability to read complex rooms, tailor counsel to different stakeholders, and navigate sensitive issues with discretion
• Ability to lead and inspire multidisciplinary teams, resolve tension constructively, and create accountability without relying solely on hierarchy
• Exceptional business judgment and the ability to connect marketing decisions to broader client goals, organizational dynamics, and commercial outcomes
• A growth mindset, with the curiosity and proactivity to identify unmet client needs and translate them into meaningful opportunities
• A coaching orientation and the ability to raise the performance, confidence, and judgment of other leaders
• Commercial acumen across scopes, staffing models, forecasting, profitability, and investment decisions
• 10+ years of experience leading integrated client relationships within a creative, marketing, or communications agency, including demonstrated success operating at the Business Director or equivalent level
• Ability to balance client needs, creative ambition, executional feasibility, team sustainability, and financial health
• Demonstrated experience coaching and developing account leadership talent while independently navigating high-stakes client and business decisions
• Strong strategic fluency and the ability to turn ambiguity into clear, actionable direction without prescribing the creative solution
• Experience leading a large, complex, or matrixed national account across multiple stakeholders and workstreams
• Experience in QSR, retail, CPG, telecom, financial services, sports, entertainment, or another high-velocity consumer category
• Experience working within/leading an integrated agency team or multi-agency ecosystem
• Experience leading culturally specific or multicultural marketing while connecting the work to a broader brand and business strategy
• Track record of identifying and converting organic growth opportunities
• Experience leading scope development, staffing recommendations, forecasting, and profitability management
• Experience supporting new business pitches, agency initiatives, recruiting, or talent development