New Business Director (EMEA)

Join Croud, a leading digital marketing agency, as the New Business Director for the EMEA region. In this pivotal role, you will drive commercial growth, lead strategic new business opportunities, and build long-term relationships with senior marketing decision-makers. You will collaborate with specialists across media, strategy, creative, analytics, and marketing to develop compelling commercial propositions. This highly visible role offers significant exposure to senior leadership and the opportunity to shape our go-to-market strategy.

• Own and lead strategic new business opportunities from qualification through to close, driving complex RFPs and competitive pitches.
• Develop and execute tailored business development strategies to generate sustainable pipeline growth across priority sectors.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, identifying commercial opportunities and positioning Croud as a long-term strategic partner.
• You'll be an experienced consultative sales professional with a passion for building relationships, solving complex business challenges and winning transformational client partnerships
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to identify, shape and convert high-value opportunities
• Excellent presentation, storytelling and proposal-writing skills, with the ability to simplify complex solutions into compelling commercial narratives
• Curiosity about emerging trends across media, marketing, technology and AI, with the ability to translate these into client value
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple opportunities simultaneously
• A collaborative leadership style, bringing together multidisciplinary teams around a shared commercial objective
• In depth, demonstrable experience in business development, consultative sales or agency growth within digital marketing, media or integrated communications
• A proven track record of winning significant new business and leading complex competitive pitch processes
• Experience engaging senior marketing leaders and C-suite stakeholders with confidence and credibility
• A proactive, resilient and results-driven mindset with a genuine passion for growth