Head of Growth

Create Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Create Group, a strategic, digital creative communications agency, is seeking a Head of Growth to lead new business and build a high-value pipeline for 2027 and beyond. This role demands strategic vision and a track record of converting relationships into multi-million dirham opportunities.

You will activate UAE and KSA senior client networks, shape briefs with client insight, and drive an intelligence-led growth engine across the Stagwell network, with a baseline sales target and potential team

Qualifications

• Proven track record of converting senior relationships into high-value integrated work.
• Credible with the C-suite: listens first, presents well, influences decisions.
• Senior new business experience in integrated creative, digital or network agencies.
• Experience inside a global network: multi-agency briefs, leading conversations across the network.
• Command of the full funnel from identification through qualification, negotiation and award.
• Commercial fluency: pipeline coverage, win rates, margins, and revenue profitability.

Responsibilities

• Own new business end to end: prospecting, deal planning, negotiation and close on high-value integrated Digital and ATL opportunities.
• Activate your own network of senior UAE and KSA client relationships, CMO level and above, from day one.
• Work with senior clients to unearth the business and brand problem underneath the brief, shape the right solution, then pull in our specialists to deliver it.
• Apply rigorous bid/no-bid criteria so we only chase what we can win, protecting win rate as pipeline volume builds.
• Build agency collectives for specific briefs and lead conversations across the Stagwell network.
• Own pipeline reporting: coverage, win rate, conversion, and delivery of revenue at budgeted EBITDA.
• Prove the engine works so we can add salespeople alongside and underneath you.

Skills

Senior new business track record

C-suite credibility

Integrated creative/digital experience

Global network experience

Full funnel sales

Commercial fluency

Job description

We're looking for a Head of Growth to lead new business for the agency and build the pipeline that captures the potential of 2027. An ambitious and strategic catalyst for uncovering and connecting innovative brands and work for our agency.

Create. is a strategic, digital creative communications agency building fans by connecting brave regional and global storytellers with their communities. We partner with the region’s nation builders as well as some of the most exciting local and global brands. Named Campaign Magazine’s Digital Agency and Independent Creative Agency of the Year , and recognised by Adweek as one of the fastest-growing creative agencies globally, we are now part of the Stagwell network.

2027 is shaping up as the region’s flagship year. That takes a strategic growth engine fuelled by a qualified pipeline built against a clear revenue target, powered by an intelligence-led proposition. The Head of Growth owns that engine, relaunching our new business operation ahead of 2027 and accountable for converting new growth from new client logos.

What You'll Do

• Own new business end to end: prospecting, deal planning, negotiation and close on high-value integrated Digital and ATL opportunities
• Activate your own network of senior UAE and KSA client relationships, CMO level and above, from day one
• Work with senior clients to unearth the business and brand problem underneath the brief, shape the right solution, then pull in our specialists to deliver it
• Apply rigorous bid/no-bid criteria so we only chase what we can win, protecting win rate as pipeline volume builds
• Build agency collectives for specific briefs and lead conversations across the Stagwell network
• Own pipeline reporting: coverage, win rate, conversion, and delivery of revenue at budgeted EBITDA
• Prove the engine works so we can add salespeople alongside and underneath you

What We're Looking For

• An entrepreneurial, strategic thinker who arrives with a black book, ready to go. A track record of converting senior relationships into high value integrated work.
• Credible with the C-suite: listens first, presents well, influences decisions
• Senior new business track record in integrated creative, digital or network agencies, converting your own relationships into multi-million dirham integrated work
• Experience inside a global network: multi-agency briefs, building collectives, leading conversations across the network
• Command of the full funnel from identification through qualification, negotiation and award, with the discipline to say no to the wrong briefs
• Commercial fluency: pipeline coverage, win rates, margin, and what it takes to deliver revenue profitably

How we will set you up for success

• Direct line to the CCO, with the Managing Director, department heads and business directors engaged on opportunities
• Strategy and creative involved from the brief stage, bringing client and market intelligence into every pitch
• Access to Stagwell network agencies and capabilities for multi-agency and regional opportunities
• A competitive package with performance incentives unlocked against a baseline sales target
• Headcount to build a team once the engine is proven