Managing Partner M+C Saatchi Talk · London ·

M&C Saatchi Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading marketing agency in Greater London is seeking a Managing Partner to join the leadership team. The role entails overseeing financial success, maintaining a vibrant team culture, and nurturing client relationships. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional commercial acumen and a proven track record in team leadership and talent retention. This position offers competitive salary and benefits such as 27 days of annual leave, private healthcare, and commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

27 days annual holiday

Private healthcare

Employer contributory pension

Life assurance

Income protection

Subsidised gym membership

Personal development support

Qualifications

• Experience in leading teams and driving commercial success.
• Strong negotiation and financial management skills.
• Track record of recruiting and retaining top talent.

Responsibilities

• Oversee financial targets and ensure departmental profitability.
• Lead talent management and maintain a strong departmental culture.
• Build and maintain client relationships for retention and growth.

Skills

Commercially astute leadership

Financial literacy

Team management

Relationship building

Job description

M+C Saatchi Talk is seeking an exceptional Managing Partner to join our leadership team and drive the continued success of our agency. This pivotal role demands a dynamic, commercially astute leader who can balance strategic vision with hands‑on execution. You will oversee four critical pillars; the commercials, the team, the work, and agency growth ensuring we deliver best‑in‑class work while fostering a thriving culture.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

THE COMMERCIALS:

As a Managing Partner you are responsible for the commercial success of your department, contributing to the commercial success of the business, which includes:

• Achieving financial targets and goals
• Procuring and progressing new business leads
• Leading pitch work to success
• Negotiating rates and payment structures that are financially efficient
• Managing team time to ensure profitability of accounts and projects
• Developing the commercial acumen of the team underneath you
• Identifying risks to revenue early with a plan to halt or backfill

You are expected to have first‑class financial literacy and a forensic knowledge of your numbers to include:

• Tight management of income and pipeline, ensuring figures are kept up to date and that you are abreast of all department‑related financial information
• A close grip on income v expenditure, ensuring your department is profitable to the required margins and managing your staff costs and overheads diligently
• Maintaining realistic forecasts to manage the commercial profile of your department and diagnose any areas of focus
• Ensuring finance processes are adhered to and commercial paperwork is completed promptly and in line with audit and internal regulations

You should make prudent decisions about the running of your department to ensure cost‑base efficiency and pre‑empt financial considerations to ensure current and future success. You should work with other MPs to find staffing efficiencies and solutions that benefit the commercial profile of the business as a whole to ensure:

• Management of cost‑base
• Positive utilisation levels
• Best use of skillset and client need to deliver successful work

THE TEAM

You are responsible overseeing all departmental running, to include:

• Setting and maintaining a culture for your department
• Being an inspirational figurehead for your department
• Keeping the department close‑knot and engaged
• Pre‑empting and trouble‑shooting any team issues
• Talent mapping key individuals to ensure retention of first‑class staff
• Maintenance of a good retention rate to ensure client stability, department efficiency and to maximise the benefits of long‑standing tenure

You are responsible for maintaining an A‑class team:

• Recruiting and retaining first‑class talent
• Quick decision‑making or corrective action against hires that don’t meet agency standards
• Developing team members to ensure progression, addressing any performance issues or area of weakness to set them up for success
• Adapting approach to each individual

THE WORK

Clients should work with the agency because of their working relationship with you and your team, and because of our exceptional output:

• Socialising and close relationship building with clients to support retention, growth and prospecting
• Nimble and personalised approach to clients, leaning into who they are and how we can ensure a long‑term relationship with them
• Providing first‑class counsel and strategic and creative oversight across the work
• Maintaining standards of output and assuming responsibility for the work your team delivers, ensuring best in class work across all deliverables—keeping our standards high and teams accountable
• Driving industry‑defining work to ensure our campaigns are celebrated and talked about
• Assume accountability for KPIs
• Have periodical transparent conversations with clients around reviews/performance to pre‑empt and address any issues early on

THE AGENCY

The agency is a sum of its parts and while departmental focus is your core area of responsibility, you play a huge role in ensuring the success of the business overall, both culturally and commercially

• Having a prominent voice across the business as a leader of the company
• A key voice in agency‑wide decision making
• A key voice in setting and achieving the future direction of the business
• Working collaboratively with other MPs and encouraging your teams to work in a collaborative and integrated way, while celebrating their specialisms
• Representing the business internally, working with other parts of the group to work towards overall growth plans
• Representing the business externally, via industry events, trade press, networking and profile work
• Maintaining the upmost professionalism and discretion as an ambassador of the agency, keeping agency information private and confidential and maintaining the integrity of the business

Applications close: Sunday, 18th January 2026. NO RECRUITERS.

WHAT YOU’LL GET:

For the right candidate, we will offer a competitive salary and benefits package which includes 27 days annual holiday, private healthcare, employer contributory pension, life assurance and income protection. We also offer a host of benefits that support wellbeing including subsidised gym membership, whilst our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion sees us offer learning opportunities around D&I, mentoring programmes and the opportunity for all to participate in a number of active Employee Led Networks and associated events. Finally, this role will be supported with all the necessary personal development required to set someone up for success.

ABOUT M+C SAATCHI GROUP

M+C Saatchi Group has pledged its commitment to create a company that values difference, with an inclusive culture. As part of this M+C Saatchi Group continues to be an Equal Opportunity Employer which does not and shall not discriminate, celebrates diversity and bases all hiring and promotion decisions solely on merit, without regard for any personal characteristics.

If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please make us aware as part of your application.

All employee information is kept confidential according to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).