You’re coming from one of two places. Either you’ve spent your career agency-side and have done real, sustained work with financial services clients – not a project or two, but enough to understand how these organisations think, how decisions get made, and what it takes to get good work through.
Or you’ve been inside an FCA-regulated business – in marketing, digital or a related function – and you’re ready to move into an environment where things move faster and you have more room to act.
If you’re coming from an agency, sector depth matters. We’ll want to see that you understand the regulatory context, the stakeholder landscape, and the particular challenges of delivering brand and digital work for regulated businesses. Knowing FS clients is different from knowing FS, and we’ll be looking for evidence of the latter.
If you’re coming from client-side, we’ll want to know you understand what agency delivery involves – how projects get scoped and resourced, how creative and technical teams work, and what it means to manage a client relationship rather than be one.
Ideally, you’ve got both. Time in-house followed by agency experience, or vice versa, gives you a perspective that’s hard to replicate – and it shows in how you handle clients and how you lead a team.
Wherever you’re coming from, you’ll be commercially sharp, confident at senior level, and interested in where AI is taking this industry. You’ll want to lead, not just manage.
You’ll recognise yourself in most of this:
- Commercially sharp — you see where the growth is and you go after it
- Strategic — you can step back from the task in front of you and see the bigger opportunity
- Fast — you work at pace and don’t wait to be asked
- Creative and tech-curious — interested in creative applications of technology and AI, comfortable in digital conversations
- A strong relationship-builder who clients trust and want more of
- Confident in front of prospects and senior client stakeholders
- A capable leader who can bring on a small team
