Growth Manager

About Interbrand

Interbrand understands what it takes today to build the world’s most iconic brands.

To support our clients in an ever more complex and fascinating world, we have renewed our commitment to both common global standards and greater empowerment, experimentation and entrepreneurialism.

Interbrand is its people. We are a global team of highly diverse thinkers, makers and collaborators. We are proud of our heritage and often regarded as the university of branding. Over the past four decades, we have pioneered iconic work and invented many of the brand building tools that are now commonplace.

In collaboration with many of the world’s leading brands, we are pioneering the future of brand building. In a world where people’s expectations are moving faster than businesses, we give our clients the confidence to make Iconic Moves that create desire and utility, reshape the competitive landscape and drive extraordinary results.

The Interbrand Best Global Brands study/rankings are resources to our clients and the industry, providing proprietary data and insight for our role as client partner and commentator. We have published 18 books on brands and are often the reference point for university curriculum and professional associations. Today, through our own Academy, we aim to be the most impactful learning environment in the marketing world.

Our Behaviours

Our culture is informed by a set of behaviours we co-created as a business. Our behaviours give us space to experiment, permission to speak out, and a model of leadership that anyone in the business can adopt. Our behaviours are Lead with love, Be Brave, Listen First and Make it happen. We are proud of our behaviours. They make us, us.  

Location: Cologne, Germany 

Department: Growth

Employment type: Full-Time, Hybrid (3 Office Days per Week)

The opportunity  
Growth happens when you find the right opportunities and bring the right team together. The Senior Manager, Growth hunts for prospects, builds trusted relationships, and coordinates pitches that win new business. You'll manage smaller opportunities from first conversation through to proposal and support larger pitches as part of a collaborative cross-disciplinary team, working across Interbrand to identify, scope, and close the work that matters. 

What you’ll be doing 

• Manage inbound opportunities, qualifying leads and moving them through the pitch process 
• Own smaller pitches from start to finish, supporting larger pitches as part of a coordinated team 
• Collaborate globally to find relevant case studies or evidence of previous experience when pitching for client work 
• Write approaches and proposals with Client Partnership teams, translating briefs into compelling responses  
• Build trusted relationships with prospects, becoming their first point of contact 
• Gather intel and knowledge on the client’s RFP or similar pitch process frameworks  
• Proactively gather information and context needed for an RFP 
• Partner with delivery management to scope opportunities accurately and manage the process end to end keeping stakeholders updated  
• Actively manage and review Salesforce to keep opportunities organized and visible  
• Pursue outbound prospects through research, outreach, and relationship nurturing  
• Work with marketing on targeted outbound campaigns  
• Update senior management on pipeline progress and key opportunities  
• Prepare and run reports for weekly team meetings and owning the meeting notes and action items  
• Listen to feedback from clients and colleagues and use it to strengthen pitch process or pitch content
• Work with Client Partnerships to create case studies that can be used for new business as well as marketing purposes 

What w****e’re looking for 

As this role is located in Germany within an international working context, we are looking for business fluency in German and English.

Experience

Previous new business, sales or growth roles in an agency environment or adjacent industry. Proven success identifying and closing new opportunities, ultimately increasing revenue by generation and conversion of leads 

Relationships  

You are comfortable working across offices and across teams. You build rapport and trust easily both internally and externally with prospective clients. You energize teams around a common goal. You responds thoughtfully to feedback from clients and colleagues.

Curiosity  
You always look at ways to improve the pitch process in terms of efficiencies, timings and quality output. You thrive on deeply understanding Interbrand’s IP, services, and offerings and stays up to date on latest global case studies. You are comfortable learning from both wins and losses and naturally bring a positive, entrepreneurial, can-do attitude 

Commerciality  
You understand and articulate which prospective clients are the right ones to go for and what to say no to. You know how to scope opportunities appropriately and with accuracy. You stay current on sales and scoping best practices in a fast-moving agency landscape. You are an agile, strategic thinker.

Communication  

You communicate clear and concise when reporting to senior management. You are skilled at writing compelling approaches and capable of explaining Interbrand persuasively to prospects.

Why Interbrand  
For over 50 years, we’ve been shaping the world’s most iconic brands. We solve brand challenges through our Thinking & Making approach, combining Human Truth, Brand Economics, and Experience to help our clients make the moves that unlock growth and define what’s next. 

We nurture a global community of thinkers and makers with the curiosity and confidence to create iconic work. Here, you’ll find transparent career pathways, on-demand learning, honest feedback, real collaboration across borders, and a culture that champions difference and wellbeing. 

We don’t do ordinary. And we don’t expect you to either. 

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