Growth and Insights Manager

dentsu; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global growth agency is hiring a Global Growth & Insights Manager in London, Manchester, or Edinburgh. The role focuses on orchestrating analytics and business processes to drive revenue growth for clients. Key responsibilities include managing client business planning, leading portfolio reviews, and collaborating across teams. Ideal candidates will have experience in growth operations, strong communication skills, and be proficient in BI tools. A competitive salary and flexible working arrangements are offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working arrangements

Tailored benefits package

Qualifications

• Experience in growth operations or similar role within a global organization.
• Proven ability to convert complex data into actionable insights.
• Track record of developing scalable processes for revenue impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead global pipeline review for the Global Accelerator portfolio.
• Produce insightful monthly reports highlighting performance and actions.
• Manage Client Business Planning for Global Accelerator Clients.

Skills

Growth operations

Data transformation

Communication with C-suite

Pipeline management

Collaboration across regions

CRM (Salesforce)

BI visualization tools

Tools

Salesforce

PowerBI

Job description

Job Description : Introduction

Dentsu is an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world’s leading organizations. Founded in 1901 in Tokyo, Japan, and now present in over 145 countries and regions, it has a proven track record of nurturing and developing innovations, combining the talents of its global network of leadership brands to develop impactful and integrated growth solutions for clients. Dentsu delivers end-to-end experience transformation (EX) by integrating its services across Media, CXM and Creative, while its business transformation (BX) mindset pushes the boundaries of transformation and sustainable growth for brands, people and society.

We’re hiring a Global Growth & Insights Manager to work from our office in London, Manchester or Edinburgh.

Role Purpose

As a Global Growth & Insights Manager on dentsu’s Global Growth & Insights team, you will orchestrate the systems, analytics, and business-planning processes that unlock revenue growth across our highest-priority global clients. You will build and run a disciplined, insight-led pipeline review cadence for the Global Accelerator portfolio while guiding annual and quarterly Client Business Plans that align dentsu’s full capabilities to each client’s growth agenda. This highly visible role puts you at the heart of dentsu’s growth engine, partnering with senior leaders to sharpen decision-making and accelerate market impact.

Key Responsibilities

Global Portfolio & Pipeline Management

• Architect and lead a global, standardized pipeline review process for the Global Accelerator Client portfolio.
• Convene and facilitate regular review sessions with Integrated Client Leaders (ICLs) and senior executives, surfacing opportunities, flagging risks, and mobilizing next steps.
• Produce clear, insight-rich monthly portfolio reports for the Chief Global Client Officer, highlighting performance against targets and recommended actions.
• Embed KPIs and governance that hold teams accountable for revenue and growth milestones.

Strategic Insights & Executive Reporting

• Own the end-to-end analytics narrative for the Global Accelerator Client portfolio including forecast accuracy, pipeline health, risk, and opportunity.
• Partner with Growth & Insights colleagues to use the Growth Insights Dashboard (PowerBI), CRM (Salesforce) and other BI tools for real‑time, actionable views.
• Package data into crisp, decision‑ready stories for executive audiences.

Client Business Planning

• Lead the orchestration and management of the Client Business Planning process (Key Account Management) for Global Accelerator Clients.
• Drive the annual and quarterly planning cycles, ensuring plans articulate client objectives, growth whitespace, solution roadmaps, and actionable milestones.
• Collaborate with ICLs, capability leads, and regional teams to align resources, set revenue targets, and track progress against plan.
• Maintain a living repository of client plans, synthesizing insights and sharing best practices and case studies across the portfolio and network.

Skills / Qualifications

• Experience in growth operations, enablement, pipeline management, key account management, or similar role within a global, matrixed organization.
• Proven ability to transform complex data into actionable commercial insights and plans.
• Confident communicator and storyteller, comfortable engaging C‑suite stakeholders.
• Track record of building scalable processes that deliver measurable revenue impact.
• Advanced user of CRM (Salesforce) and BI visualization tools (PowerBI or similar).
• Collaborative mindset with experience working across regions, cultures, and disciplines.

What we offer

• This is a permanent role
• The team is based from the London, Manchester or Edinburgh office but operates under flexible working arrangements.
• As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

Inclusion and Diversity

Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their best selves to work and be proud of doing so. For us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.

We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles – we can’t promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.