Global Network Growth Executive Director

Who We Are WPP Enterprise Solutions designs, builds, and operates the growth systems that competitive businesses rely on. In a world where Al is reshaping how companies drive growth, we lead clients in business transformation and marketing modernization, connecting strategy directly to execution. Our 12,000 experts in engineering and platforms, commerce, consulting, content transformation, CRM, and CX work within a unified global operating unit across 40+ markets. WPP Enterprise Solutions works alongside best-in-class partners including Adobe, AWS, Braze, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Shopify, as well as innovators in AI, to deliver growth solutions tailored to the needs of our clients’ businesses. VML, part of WPP, supports WPP Enterprise Solutions by helping brands activate transformation through creativity and experience. The Role As the Growth Network Director, you will hold one of the most senior and consequential commercial roles within WPP Enterprise Solutions. You will be responsible for turning the most valuable market signals, client relationships, and WPP network intelligence into high-quality, strategically shaped growth opportunities and for creating the momentum that moves them from first conversation to qualified pursuit. Operating at the intersection of consultative selling, transformation strategy, and executive relationship management, you will bring a rare combination of commercial instinct and intellectual rigour. You do not wait for a brief to arrive fully formed. You identify signals others miss, impose strategic clarity where ambiguity exists, shape the opportunity narrative before the client has fully articulated the need, and mobilise the right combination of WPP expertise around a live, credible commercial path. This is enterprise growth leadership in its most active and most demanding form. Working fluidly across WPP Network Growth, you will engage at the highest levels of the organisation and the market, operating credibly alongside Global Client Leads, agency CEOs, senior client stakeholders, consulting and technology partners, and ES capability heads. Your effectiveness will be measured not by the volume of relationships you manage, but by the quality of the opportunities you originate, the rigour with which you qualify and shape them, and your ability to connect the right people, at the right moment, around the right commercial proposition. Core Responsibilities Generate: Proactively identify and progress high-value opportunities across existing WPP relationships, direct enterprise demand, senior stakeholder networks and strategic market signals, converting early intelligence into commercially viable pursuits before the opportunity has fully formed Build genuine, durable trust at the highest levels with Global Client Leads, agency leaders, WPP Media, WPP Creative, WPP Open, consulting and alliance partners, and senior client stakeholders, creating the access and relationships that sustain commercial momentum over time Assess each live opportunity with commercial discipline and strategic clarity, evaluating client need, ES relevance, revenue potential, urgency, stakeholder access, winnability and the required path to activation so that the team's energy is concentrated where it matters most Shape: Translate ambiguous client problems into a clear, compelling Enterprise Solutions opportunity narrative, spanning CRM, commerce, CX, content, data, AI, platforms, marketing technology, managed services and operating model transformation, making the complex feel navigable and the case for action feel urgent Lead the pursuit strategy for priority opportunities from end to end; owning problem framing, stakeholder mapping, commercial logic, solution direction, proof points and activation needs and carry that strategy through to a result Know exactly when and how to bring in solution, commercial, technical, delivery, alliance and subject-matter expertise, assembling the