Growth Director

Client of Hanson Search Ltd; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Client of Hanson Search Ltd is seeking an experienced Growth Director to drive new business from a Dubai base, focusing on the UAE and expanding across the GCC. The role requires an entrepreneurial, well-connected leader with a track record of winning regional opportunities.

You will shape the regional growth strategy, build a strong pipeline, and lead high‑level client conversations across creative and digital services, with travel across the region expected.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of originating and winning new business in the Middle East.
• Strong regional network across Dubai and Abu Dhabi with senior decision-makers.
• Experience selling integrated creative, digital, content and production services.

Responsibilities

• Shape and execute the regional growth strategy for the Middle East.
• Build and convert a robust pipeline of new business opportunities.
• Lead sophisticated, solutions-led client conversations with senior stakeholders.
• Travel regularly across the region to cultivate relationships.

Skills

Senior-level new business development

Strong UAE network

Integrated creative and digital sales

Strategic client conversations

Travel willingness

Job description

A leading global creative digital agency is looking for an experienced Growth Director to drive new business across the Middle East. Based in Dubai the role will initially focus on opportunities across the UAE, particularly Dubai and Abu Dhabi, while supporting the agency’s continued growth across the wider GCC. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and well‑connected agency growth leader to join an international business with an impressive global client base, an entrepreneurial culture and significant plans for the region. The agency works at the intersection of creativity, digital innovation and AI, partnering with some of the world’s most recognised brands across technology, automotive, consumer goods, entertainment and other major sectors. Its integrated offering spans creative strategy and campaigns, digital marketing, content and social media, insights, production and AI‑enabled content creation. The agency combines the scale and capabilities of a global organisation with the pace, agility and entrepreneurial culture of a growing independent business. This is both a strategic and hands‑on role.

The Growth Director will help shape the agency’s regional growth strategy while building and converting a strong pipeline of new business opportunities across the Middle East. This is a senior, externally focused position requiring someone who can open doors, build trusted relationships and lead sophisticated, solutions‑led client conversations. The successful candidate will combine a strong regional network with the strategic and commercial credibility to sell integrated creative and digital services to senior decision‑makers. They will be expected to understand each client’s wider business and marketing challenges, shape the opportunity and bring together the agency’s creative, content, social, production and digital capabilities to develop a compelling solution.

The ideal candidate will have a strong creative, digital or integrated agency background, together with a demonstrable track record of personally originating and winning new business in the Middle East. They will bring:

• Significant senior‑level new business development or client leadership experience in the Middle East.
• A strong and credible network across Dubai and Abu Dhabi, including relationships with senior marketing, communications, digital and procurement decision‑makers.
• Experience selling complex, integrated creative, digital, content, social or production services rather than a single agency discipline.
• The strategic capability to understand wider business and marketing challenges and engage confidently with senior executives, government entities and semi‑government organisations.
• An entrepreneurial, proactive and self‑directed approach, with the ability to operate effectively in a fast‑paced and agile environment.
• The successful candidate must also be able to travel regularly across the region.

Candidates may come from digital transformation consultancies, creative production businesses, social agencies or major digital platforms, provided they have sold integrated creative and digital solutions and have a strong UAE network. Candidates whose experience is predominantly limited to traditional media buying, advertising inventory or publishing sales are unlikely to be suitable.