Agency Development Director

The Role

As Agency Development Director, you will own the agency strategy and commercial campaigns for your sales patch, focusing on some of Hearst’s biggest opportunities outside of our top 100 accounts. You will build senior agency relationships at Director and Head of level, identify new business opportunities and position Hearst as a leading publisher across digital, print, partnerships and events.

Working closely with Account Management, Creative Strategy and key internal stakeholders, you will oversee campaign responses from brief to delivery, ensuring proposals are commercially strong, strategically aligned and effectively translated into campaign execution. You will lead agency presentations, communicate Hearst’s proposition with confidence and provide market‑leading representation across agency partners.

This role also includes line management responsibility, supporting and developing team members to deliver excellent work, grow agency relations...