Established in 1973 with headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Cheil Worldwide is one of the world's leading integrated marketing communications networks, with more than 7,200 employees globally in more than 54 offices in 46 countries. For more information, visit us at: www.cheil.com.
We are inviting candidates for the position of:
Digital Group Director
Key Responsibilities:
Client Leadership:
- Serve as the senior strategic advisor for key client accounts.
- Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders.
- Lead business reviews, annual planning, and strategic workshops.
- Identify opportunities to grow client partnerships through innovative digital solutions.
- Ensure exceptional client satisfaction and retention.
Digital Strategy:
- Lead the development of integrated digital marketing strategies aligned with client business objectives.
- Provide strategic direction across paid, owned, earned, and social media channels.
- Champion data-driven decision-making through customer insights, analytics, and performance measurement.
- Stay ahead of emerging digital trends, platforms, technologies, and consumer behaviours.
Campaign Leadership:
- Oversee end-to-end delivery of digital campaigns, ensuring quality, timeliness, and profitability.
- Guide cross-functional teams across strategy, creative, media, content, technology, CRM, and performance marketing.
- Ensure campaigns meet agreed KPIs and deliver measurable business impact.
- Drive continuous optimisation through testing, analytics, and reporting.
Commercial Management:
- Own revenue growth and profitability across assigned client portfolio.
- Develop accurate forecasts, resource plans, and account budgets.
- Monitor project financial performance, including scope, utilisation, and margins.
- Support new business pitches and agency growth initiatives.
Team Leadership:
- Foster a collaborative, high-performance culture focused on innovation and continuous learning.
- Support talent acquisition, succession planning, and performance management.
- Promote best practices in client servicing, strategic thinking, and digital excellence.
Agency Leadership:
- Contribute to agency leadership, business planning, and capability development.
- Champion cross-department collaboration and integrated ways of working.
- Represent the agency at industry events, client meetings, and thought leadership opportunities.
- Drive continuous improvement in processes, tools, and digital capabilities.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in digital marketing, integrated advertising, or agency account leadership.
- Significant experience managing large, complex client portfolios.
- Proven leadership experience managing multidisciplinary teams.
- Strong commercial acumen with experience managing budgets and profitability.
- Experience leading successful new business pitches is highly desirable.
- Business development
- Performance marketing and analytics
- Data-driven decision-making
