Commercial Director

Hogarth Worldwide Ltd; London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a UK Commercial Finance Director to lead margin growth and client management. This pivotal role focuses on driving profitability and innovation in advertising production while supporting a diverse and inclusive work environment. The ideal candidate will possess strong commercial financial experience and team management skills, thriving in a dynamic setting. With a hybrid working model, the opportunity offers flexibility and collaboration within a global team of experts, making it an exciting chance to impact the company's trajectory positively. Join a forward-thinking company that values diversity and empowers its employees to succeed.

Qualifications

• Experience in a commercial financial role is essential.
• Strong operational awareness and team management skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Drive margin growth across the UK business and manage a portfolio of clients.
• Deliver commercial training and support ops projects.

Skills

Commercial Financial Experience

Team Management

Operational Awareness

Project Management

Client Relationship Management

Job description

Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world’s top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez, and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging.

The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation all mean that brands need different solutions.

Our global team of over 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production, and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today’s content experience.

Now offices are fully open, we have embraced a hybrid working model, which allows our employees to split their time between the office and other locations, providing more flexibility to their working week. The expectation is that working life at Hogarth will involve working from the office for about 60% of the time for most people. Please speak to the Talent Acquisition team to find out more information.

What does a UK Commercial Finance Director do at Hogarth?

This role is based in London and will be focused on driving margin growth across the UK business. This role will report directly into the UK Finance Director.

• Lead the business through the commercial landscape and help the company achieve and maintain a trajectory of profitable growth.
• Understand advertising production, and bring innovation to the ways of working.
• Manage an agreed portfolio of UK clients.
• Client & Service profitability taking remedial action on low margin/loss making accounts.
• Deliver Commercial Training to the business.
• Procurement.
• Client price increases.
• Review of non-billable roles & time.
• Provide commercial thought leadership and be responsible for problem solving.
• Support non-client specific Ops projects.
• Our location-agnostic approach requires decision making to be globally coordinated, globally optimal, and locally sympathetic. Flexibility to be available as required by the client, both in terms of timing and location is important, so some out of hours commitments and business travel will be a feature of the role.
• Define and implement process and commercial policy changes, roll these out, and ensure global compliance.

Reporting lines and key stakeholders

This role reports to the UK Finance Director. You will work closely with the business and the global commercial team.

Professional Experience / Capabilities

• Experience of working in a commercial financial role.
• Relevant industry / professional services / multi-country experience.
• Team Management.
• Strong operational awareness.

Personal skills and attributes

• Team management and leadership skills.
• Ambitious and driven.
• Comfortable in a dynamic environment; adaptable.
• Effective project management.
• Well organised and self-starting.
• Open, honest, and engaged.
• Change agent / challenger of status quo.
• Good communicator, both oral and written.

Diversity & Inclusion

Hogarth is an equal-opportunity employer. That means we believe in creating a truly inclusive culture that values diversity, equity, and inclusion for everyone through our ideas, our people, how we behave, and how we conduct ourselves. We strive to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and support them to achieve long-term success. This not only makes Hogarth a better company and place to work but an environment where everyone can give their point of view, experience connection, enjoy opportunity, and feel a sense of belonging.

We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or physical or mental disability. As part of our commitment to making our hiring processes as equitable as possible, we are currently rolling out a policy which ensures that hiring managers review CVs only after they have been processed through an automated anonymisation system. This aims to ensure that all candidates are considered for interview based solely on their experience and what they can bring to the role. The solution, provided by MeVitae, scans and redacts CVs to reduce potential reviewer bias.