Pursuit Manager

Dentsu Aegis Network Ltd.; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits to lead the pre-sales strategy for a groundbreaking product launch within a forward-thinking company. This role requires a strategic mind and exceptional organizational skills to coordinate high-impact sales activities across a global network. As part of a diverse and inclusive culture, you will manage multiple workstreams, ensuring alignment with commercial goals while driving innovative solutions. Join a team where your contributions will make a real impact and enjoy a competitive salary along with a tailored benefits package that supports your needs.

Benefits

Company-provided Medical Healthcare

Generous Pension provisions

Health and Wellness benefits

Volunteering days

Life Assurance

Diverse teams

Exciting and rewarding environment

Varied work across industries

Qualifications

• Strong experience in new business or pursuit management.
• Exceptional organizational skills to manage competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Manage project plans and schedules for commercial team activities.
• Coordinate with marketing and digital teams for seamless delivery.

Skills

Project Management

Strategic Thinking

Collaboration

Problem-Solving

Organizational Skills

Job description

The purpose of this role is to apply a standard approach to opportunity management, coordinating/supporting pitch teams to enable time savings and higher win rates. Project manages 2-5 deals at one time, depending on complexity, from qualified to close as prioritized by the Growth Officer. Provides best available content, manages pitch deck versioning, coordinates meetings, deliverables and pitch day logistics to meet deadlines and ensure quality.

Job Description:

Merkle, a dentsu company, powers the experience economy. For more than 35 years, the company has put people at the heart of its approach to digital business transformation. As the only integrated experience consultancy in the world with a heritage in data science and business performance, Merkle delivers holistic, end-to-end experiences that drive growth, engagement, and loyalty. Merkle’s expertise has earned recognition as a “Leader” by top industry analyst firms, in categories such as digital transformation and commerce, experience design, engineering and technology integration, digital marketing, data science, CRM and loyalty, and customer data management. With more than 16,000 employees, Merkle operates in 30+ countries throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.

The Role

The Senior Pursuit Manager role within the Merkle UK Growth team is an exciting opportunity to lead and coordinate the pre-sales strategy for the global launch of a ground-breaking product with one of our leading client brands. This position requires strategic oversight, innovative thinking, and exceptional organisational skills to ensure the seamless delivery of high-impact sales activities across a global network.

• Develop and manage a detailed project plan and work schedule that encompasses all commercial team activities, ensuring alignment with the overall programme timeline.
• Oversee commercial team collaboration with marketing and digital team.
• Track the global sales plan, monitoring in-market activities across 50+ markets, identifying risks and gaps.
• Maintain a RAID log (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) for all commercial team activities to enable proactive issue management.
• Coordinate activities with PMO peers across other workstreams, managing dependencies and resolving issues efficiently.
• Participate in programme management updates and planning sessions, ensuring colleagues are informed about commercial team activities and priorities.

Requirements

• Strong experience working in a similar new business or pursuit management environment.
• Strategic thinker with a meticulous approach to project management and process governance.
• Strong collaborator capable of managing multiple workstreams across diverse teams and geographies.
• Proactive problem-solver with an eye for identifying risks, managing dependencies, and driving issue resolution effectively.
• Exceptional organisational skills to balance competing priorities and deliver high-quality outcomes within tight deadlines.

What we offer

This is a permanent role on a hybrid working basis. As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs which includes:

• Competitive Salary
• Company-provided Medical Healthcare
• Generous Pension provisions
• Health and Wellness benefits
• Volunteering days
• Life Assurance
• Working in diverse teams where you can make a real impact
• Exciting and rewarding environment.
• Varied work across industries.

Inclusion and Diversity

Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their whole 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.

Location: London

Brand: Merkle

Time Type: Full time

Contract Type: Permanent