Business Manager
About the job
- Consolidated experience in client servicing or business roles at large agencies, working on integrated 360-degree campaigns across online and offline channels.
- Experience managing multiple campaigns and projects simultaneously at different levels of complexity.
- An analytical profile and the ability to discuss business objectives and strategy.
- Excellent communication, a consultative approach, negotiation ability, and confidence in executive presentations.
- Organization, prioritization, and resilience in a dynamic operation with a high volume of demands.
- Serve as the primary day-to-day interface and point of contact for leaders across the client's business units, connecting business challenges, strategy, and execution.
- Act as a consultative partner to the client, understand business, sales, and positioning challenges, and translate them into clear, strategic briefs.
- Lead the progress of campaigns and projects by organizing priorities, scope, schedules, budgets, and service-level agreements, and ensuring integration among the disciplines involved.
- Organize and conduct alignment meetings, status reports, kickoffs, and executive presentations, clarifying decisions, responsibilities, and next steps.
- Serve as the internal focal point for the strategic and creative quality of deliverables before presentation to the client, maintaining alignment with brand positioning and objectives.
- Track business, campaign, and media indicators, identify learnings and opportunities, and continuously improve deliverables and the client partnership.
- Orchestrate multidisciplinary teams across strategy, creative, content, media, production, and operations, and lead campaigns of varying complexity while ensuring quality, scope, timelines, and alignment with brand objectives.
- Experience with clients in finance, insurance, or large-scale services is a strong differentiator.
About the company
Wunderman Thompson blends creative advertising, data-driven consultancy, and technology to drive growth for brands. It delivers creative campaigns and brand strategies, uses data and insights to help businesses transform, and offers technology solutions such as WaterLight, a product that converts salt water into electrical power. The company earns revenue through project-based fees, retainers, and performance-based incentives. It differentiates itself with an integrated approach that combines creativity, data, and technology, backed by global clients and award-winning work. Its goal is to help ambitious brands grow by delivering measurable, impactful results.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
M&A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
1958
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- VML won Kohl's digital transformation work, signaling sticky enterprise demand in 2025.
- Healthcare and B2B remain strong; VML cites these as core growth categories.
- VML kept winning awards in 2026, including Gold at the ANDY Awards.
What critics are saying
- WPP cut hundreds of jobs in 2026, with VML employees notified directly.
- The FTC and eight states sued WPP in April 2026 over ad-buying practices.
- VML's brand is gone; integration into VML creates execution risk and identity drift.
What makes Wunderman Thompson unique
- Wunderman Thompson lives on inside VML, uniting commerce, data, and creative scale.
- VML combines 30,000 people across 64 markets, giving global delivery depth.
- WPP Open gives VML proprietary AI tooling with OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- 401(k) Company Match
- Paid Vacation