Sales Director (Media/Creative Agency)
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About the Role
A leading creative agency in Dubai seeks a commercially driven Business Development Director to own new business growth. This hunter role involves opening doors, building relationships, and converting opportunities into long-term client partnerships.
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Responsibilities
- Own and drive the agency’s new business strategy, identifying opportunities across key sectors and target accounts
- Proactively generate new leads through outbound prospecting, networking, industry relationships, and market mapping
- Build relationships with senior marketing stakeholders, brand leaders, procurement teams, and decision makers
- Create and maintain a strong sales pipeline, managing opportunities from initial outreach through to contract negotiation and close
- Lead new business meetings, presentations, and pitches alongside creative and strategy teams
- Translate client challenges into compelling creative solutions and commercial proposals
- Identify opportunities across brand, creative, digital, social, content, campaigns, and integrated marketing services
- Develop long term partnerships with clients to drive repeat business and account growth
- Represent the agency at industry events, networking opportunities, and client meetings
- Work closely with internal teams to ensure a smooth handover from winning business through to delivery
Requirements
- Proven experience in business development, sales, or commercial leadership within a creative agency, advertising agency, media agency, or marketing services environment
- Strong track record of personally winning new business and delivering revenue growth
- A genuine outbound sales mindset comfortable prospecting, cold outreach, opening conversations, and creating opportunities
- Strong network of brand side marketing decision makers across the UAE/GCC
- Experience selling creative, advertising, digital, content, media, or integrated marketing solutions
- Confident leading pitches, negotiations, and commercial conversations with senior stakeholders
- Entrepreneurial mindset with ability to work autonomously and take ownership of growth
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Role Overview
- A leading creative agency in Dubai is looking for a commercially driven Business Development Director to take ownership of new business growth and help accelerate the agency’s expansion across the region.
- This is a true hunter role for someone who thrives on opening doors, building relationships from scratch, and converting opportunities into long term client partnerships.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and drive the agency’s new business strategy, identifying opportunities across key sectors and target accounts
- Proactively generate new leads through outbound prospecting, networking, industry relationships, and market mapping
- Build relationships with senior marketing stakeholders, brand leaders, procurement teams, and decision makers
- Create and maintain a strong sales pipeline, managing opportunities from initial outreach through to contract negotiation and close
- Lead new business meetings, presentations, and pitches alongside creative and strategy teams
- Translate client challenges into compelling creative solutions and commercial proposals
- Identify opportunities across brand, creative, digital, social, content, campaigns, and integrated marketing services
- Develop long term partnerships with clients to drive repeat business and account growth
- Represent the agency at industry events, networking opportunities, and client meetings
- Work closely with internal teams to ensure a smooth handover from winning business through to delivery
Requirements
- Proven experience in business development, sales, or commercial leadership within a creative agency, advertising agency, media agency, or marketing services environment
- Strong track record of personally winning new business and delivering revenue growth
- A genuine outbound sales mindset comfortable prospecting, cold outreach, opening conversations, and creating opportunities
- Strong network of brand side marketing decision makers across the UAE/GCC
- Experience selling creative, advertising, digital, content, media, or integrated marketing solutions
- Confident leading pitches, negotiations, and commercial conversations with senior stakeholders
- Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to work autonomously and take ownership of growth
- Strong understanding of the agency landscape and how brands buy marketing services
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