Senior Client Manager

Design Bridge and Partners; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Design Bridge and Partners in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Client Manager to lead branding work for top consumer brands. You’ll steer multi-market packaging and design projects, balancing creative ambition with commercial goals across food, personal care, beauty and wellbeing.

You’ll collaborate with strategists, designers and creatives, manage timelines and budgets, and translate ambitious ideas into standout results for global clients.

Qualifications

• Solid background in brand, design, or creative agencies.
• Experience leading complex packaging and design projects for large-scale, global CPG brands.
• Comfortable working within brand frameworks, navigating multi-market rollouts, and balancing creativity with commercial know-how.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-market packaging and design projects for global CPG brands.
• Partner with strategists, designers and creatives to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery.
• Communicate with confidence to align team around a shared goal and end vision.

Job description

At Design Bridge and Partners we design brands with the power to move. Pulling people towards them with an irresistible force that compels and connects. With 900 creative minds across 17 studios worldwide, diverse in expertise, experience, backgrounds and beliefs, we are united in our ambition to achieve real impact for our clients’ brands benefiting their business, people and the planet.

With expertise across brand strategy, brand design, brand engagement and brand effectiveness our clients across the world include NASA Artemis, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Mastercard, Intel, HSBC, Tencent, Twitch, Heineken, Reckitt and the BBC.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

About the role

Are you ready to lead creative work for some of the world’s most loved consumer brands? We’re looking for a Senior Client Manager who’s passionate about branding, thrives in the fast-moving world of Drinks and CPG, and knows how to turn ambitious ideas into standout results. This is a role at the heart of brand-building, where strategy meets design, and packaging tells a story. You’ll work with major global players across food, personal care, beauty, and wellbeing, managing high-profile projects that shape the way consumers engage with brands on-shelf and beyond.

From bold redesigns to subtle evolutions, multi-market rollouts to sustainability-led innovation, you’ll drive projects from concept through to delivery. Partnering closely with cross-functional teams of strategists, designers, and creatives, you’ll ensure the work delivers against both creative ambition and commercial goals, on time, on budget, and on brief.

About you

You’ll bring a solid background in brand, design, or creative agencies, with experience leading complex packaging and design projects for large-scale, global CPG brands. You’re comfortable working within brand frameworks, navigating multi-market rollouts, and balancing creativity with commercial know-how. You’re organised, proactive, and thrive on managing moving parts with clarity and precision. You communicate with confidence and empathy, whether you’re presenting ideas, solving challenges, or aligning a team around a shared goal. Your attention to detail is matched by your ability to see the bigger picture, keeping projects on track without losing sight of the end vision.

Above all, you’re someone who brings energy, curiosity, and a sense of ownership to your work. You love working collaboratively, enjoy building strong relationships, and are excited by the chance to contribute to brands that people genuinely care about.

Why us?

We’re passionate about our people and their careers. We’ll help you develop your skills and provide you with outstanding benefits. So you’ll have a chance to make your mark on our future, as we make a mark on yours. We’re proud to be the world’s most awarded brand design agency, with 28 Cannes Lions to our name and Creative Review Annual’s Most Creative Design Agency of the Year 2024. You’ll get to take new projects to award-winning potential, as part of a connected team of brilliant, tenacious people right by your side and across the world.

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

Design Bridge and Partners, a WPP company, is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.