Business Director

LADbible Group is one of the world’s most engaged digital entertainment businesses, reaching over a billion people globally and amassing more than 13.9 billion social views each month. With a powerhouse portfolio across general lifestyle, entertainment, sport, gaming, and tech, our brands: - including LADbible, UNILAD, GAMINGbible, and UNILAD Tech, are some of the most recognised and culturally relevant on the internet.

LADbible’s Commercial Team, LAD360, is a powerhouse of creativity, strategy, and innovation - partnering with the world’s most iconic brands, from Google and Nike to Disney and Tesco. With a headcount of 150 and growing, LAD360 has rapidly become one of the most formidable forces in media, delivering culture-shaping campaigns. Our work has earned us top industry accolades, including Commercial Team of the Year at the 2025 Campaign UK Awards and Media Brand of the Year at the 2024 MediaWeek Awards. At the heart of it all is a relentless drive to push boundaries, tell bold stories, and connect brands to youth culture like no one else can.

About the Role

This is a senior, dual-facing role at the heart of our award-winning Client Solutions team. You will drive revenue growth across our full range of solutions, including branded content, display, influencer marketing, immersive camera marketing and sponsorships, with a focus on retention and long-term partnership. The aim is to make LADbible Group a trusted tier 1 partner to our agencies and their business-critical clients.

The role has two equally weighted mandates:

- Agency partnership-Publicis: You will be one of our senior day-to-day partners across the Publicis Groupe agencies, primarily Zenith and Starcom. You will bring established, trusted relationships and use them to build a robust, qualified pipeline of briefs, pitches and always-on business for LADbible Group.
- Client-direct lead on flagship growth clients: You will also own the direct day-to-day relationship with a small number of our priority Publicis Groupe clients, acting as their senior partner and the linchpin between agency and client, and ensuring best-in-class planning, creativity and client management from end to end.

What the opportunity looks like

- Build strong relationships with key agency and client stakeholders across your accounts, so they see you as their go-to business partner.
- Craft market-leading, integrated proposals that answer the client or agency brief precisely. Most will be full funnel, so a strong understanding of both brand and direct response activity is critical.
- Act as the connector between our internal teams, including Creative, Strategy, Category specialists and Display, to create and deliver pitches that win new and repeat business.
- Pitch with confidence, both proactively and in response to briefs.
- Hit and exceed personal revenue targets and KPIs for the accounts you lead.
- Create and deliver sharp category, product and audience insights, whether in standalone client workshops or as part of ongoing proposals.
- Immerse yourself in your key clients’ businesses so that your proactive ideas and proposals show a deep understanding of their challenges.
- Craft standout case studies and award entries that delight your agencies and clients and raise LADbible Group’s profile across the industry.
- Deliver robust post-campaign analysis to drive revenue retention and growth.
- Use your client and category knowledge to recommend new commercial products and support their development.
- Represent LADbible Group at relevant conferences and industry events.

Skills and experience we’d like you to have

- Expertise in interpreting a brief and developing the right integrated response, with confidence in full-funnel planning.
- The ability to build clear, compelling pitch presentations.
- Tenacity and provocative, creative thinking.
- Proven experience presenting and selling exciting solutions to clients at all levels of seniority.
- A strong understanding of digital and social channels, including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and X. Knowledge of sponsorship, influencer and immersive camera marketing is a plus.
- Established, senior relationships across Publicis Groupe, ideally within Zenith and Starcom.
- An aptitude for learning quickly in a fast-moving digital and social space with complex products.
- An entrepreneurial mindset: if a client needs a format or capability we don’t yet offer, you are comfortable proposing new ideas to the business.
- Resilience and drive, with the ability to perform under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- A genuine passion for great work, strong client outcomes and LADbible Group’s future.
- A proven track record of meeting and exceeding revenue targets in a commercial role at a media owner, publisher or agency.
- A collaborative, energetic approach that adds value across the business.

At LADbible Group we've rolled out blended working which means the majority of departments across the business (including London, Manchester and International offices) work in the office 4 days per week.

LADbible Group is an equal opportunities employer. We are determined to create a diverse group at all levels of our company and we welcome all members of the community to apply for openings with us. As the leading social youth publisher, we have a powerful global platform to better represent our audience and enable those that do not have equal opportunities to have their voices heard. As a business, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce, in an environment where everyone feels comfortable to be themselves.