Business Partner
Hybrid role with 3 days in our Bishopsgate, London office (Mon,Tues and Thurs)
FutureBrand
We’re FutureBrand, the flagship branding agency within Omnicom’s global creative network.
25 years young with a head full of big brand experience and a gaze fixed firmly on the future, our work over the last two decades has changed the brand landscape today. What we do next will change tomorrow. We’re based in some of the most exciting and vibrant cities on the planet, balancing global scale with cultural connection. That means we’re on the doorstep of many of the world’s biggest brands, and within reach of the very best talent.
Together, we are a diverse brand, experience and design community who believe that brand is how a company’s people, products and services behave wherever and whenever they show up in the world. Our work focuses on measuring and maximizing brand behaviour by connecting corporate purpose with everyday lived experience.
It's through this work that we deliver our purpose: To transform the future of businesses by changing how their brands behave today. And because we believe strongly that the future our brands create must be a future for us all, our shared values - Progressive, Adaptable, Collaborative and Empowering - put difference and diversity at our core.
We’re now looking for an experienced Business Partner (or a Business Director ready for the next step) to help lead our corporate and FMCG brand portfolio.
You’ll be responsible for leading and directing the account teams across a folio of major corporate clients — including some of the biggest organisations in the world — as well as high‑profile FMCG brands, including on‑pack and portfolio branding projects.
You’ll grow and guide large‑scale, complex accounts, ensuring excellence in strategic and creative standards while working closely with project leadership teams. Using your influencing and negotiation skills, you’ll build strong, trusted relationships with clients and unlock opportunities for growth, innovation and long‑term partnership.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop long-term client relationships built on trust, quality thinking, and effective creative solutions.
- Provide strong account direction, seeking opportunities to develop and grow client accounts.
- Lead and inspire account teams to deliver against client needs while introducing new expertise to drive revenue and profitability.
- Ensure briefs, creative and strategy solutions address the client’s needs.
- Demonstrate responsibility, respect, fairness, and honesty in all interactions
Skills and Competencies
- Significant experience running large, complex accounts across corporate, service and FMCG branding — including on‑pack and brand creation.
- Recognises and is passionate about great creative work
- Excellent business acumen, with the ability to fully understand all aspects of business operations, financial and resource management.
- Proven Resilience: calm under pressure; focused and optimistic; is persistent even with adversity and recovers easily from setbacks
- Proven leadership with internal teams and clients
- Effective conflict resolution skills.
- Ability to address situations in a positive and constructive manner
- Outstanding communication skills at all levels, (presentation, written, verbal)
- Effective negotiator, influencer, and communicator
- Strong team player and have a key role in supporting others
- Positive and can-do attitude and problem solver
- Ability to work well under pressure, whilst remaining objective and retaining a positive approach
Equal Opportunities
We believe that ideas get better when they are inherently diverse and shared in highly inclusive ways and we want to hear from those who think differently from us. We truly believe in the strength of diversity and the richness it can bring. By bringing different people together great things happen.
FutureBrand is an equal opportunity employer (EEO). We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
FutureBrand is a disability-confident committed employer and will guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets the minimum criteria for the role. Exceptions may apply if due to the volume of applications, we are not able to interview all eligible candidates who qualify under the scheme. If you have a disability, we want everyone to feel at ease when going through our recruitment process. We are working to make our website and processes more accessible, if you encounter any issues and would like this information in an alternative format, or if you need further support with your application, please contact us at FBHR@futurebrand.com for any adjustments you may need to perform at your best.
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