Head of Delivery and Client Operations

  • Sector: 媒体和广告
  • Contact: Myraflor G.Tabuzo
  • Client: Monroe Consulting Group
  • Location: Manila
  • Salary: PHP180000 - PHP200000 per month
  • Expiry Date: 14 October 2024
  • Job Ref: BBBH446471_1723702615
  • Contact Email: myraflor.tabuzo@monroeconsulting.com.ph

Executive recruitment company Monroe Consulting Group Philippines is recruiting on behalf of a global advertising services company. Our highly respected client is seeking a Head of Delivery and Client Operations who has strong experience in delivery, marketing, and client interfacing with regional capacity across markets. It is a remote job, but the candidate should be open to visiting offices within BGC, Mc Kinley, and Manila.

Job Context and Purpose

  • Effectively managing the significantly increased average size and complexity of engagements
  • Completing the evolution from a predominantly retained model to engagements with more complicated commercial arrangements including ad hoc project work, high-volume asset development, follow-up on production and even pay for performance.
  • Accelerating the diffusion of offshore and automation into our client solutions as the competition and appetite for increased efficiency accelerates in the marketing services industry and as our engagements begin to resemble those of traditional digital agencies.
  • Efficiently enabling the continued expansion into new countries with unique laws, regulations and customs.
  • Reducing the silos that inevitably emerge as a result of company's highly successful model of building bespoke solutions for each client or studio, increasing the shared support services from the center and aligning the ways of working between the account to enable mobility of our staff between accounts, mobility of work between studios and countries for improved load balancing and minimizing wasteful reinvention.

Key responsibilities include :
At the highest level, the Head of Delivery and Client Operations is responsible for the timely and accurate estimation and costing of the effort, technology and materials involved in meeting client requirements and then overseeing the delivery of that work according to the contractual timelines, budgets and quality specifications for all company projects globally. This requires both a focus on diligent day-to-day delivery management as well as a focus on longer term strategic operational efficiency of our accounts. As such, the Head of Delivery and Client Operations will be measured on the broad set of key KPIs listed below.
To achieve this, the Head of Delivery and Client Operations will be expected to build, maintain and evolve a world class Delivery Discipline for company across the region

  • Introduce leading-edge methods, structures and best practices such as use of Traceability Matrices to formally track contractual obligations, client acceptance, variations, etc., client briefing improvements and PMs aware of and managing margin hiring experienced PMs with digital agency experience.
  • Ownership of the Account Review, Account Health Assessment and Client Sat Survey processes.
  • Improve Risk Management, Commercial Management and Stakeholder Management across entire Discipline.
  • Expand Delivery Mentoring Program.
  • Increase Delivery agility to accommodate new situations.
  • Support the "ReImplementation" of certain accounts
  • Bring much needed "digital agency think" to our increasing portfolio of complex and tech-dependent builds.
  • Minimizing erosion between Sold At and Delivered At Project and Account Margin
  • Changing the company's culture to routinely use Change Orders / Variations when scope or schedule changes are requested by clients.
  • Maintenance and continuous improvement of the New Market Introduction process.
  • Maintenance and continuous improvement of the weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual project and account cost forecasting (Bank and Stretch)
  • Partner with the Capacity Management team towards load balancing the accounts, ensuring a variable workforce and meeting our Billable Utilization targets by ensuring all Delivery Discipline members are sufficiently billable and by increasing oversight of time sheet data for other Disciplines
  • Partner with the Commercial Finance team towards designing solutions and determining pricing to counter "Rate Card Gravity" and continuously bolster Sold At Project and Account Margins
  • Help diffuse new technology into the organization and client solutions
  • Help keep our Margin Dilutive Freelancer spending to a minimum.


Key requirements include:

  • A minimum of 15 years in a delivery capacity.
  • 10+ years in marketing services.
  • 10+ years interfacing directly with clients.
  • 10+ years working in a regional capacity across markets, cultures and time-zones
  • 5+ years managing through structural and/or significant process changes.
  • A demonstrated history of being both process driven and result focused.
  • Excellent stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to proactively organise and influence stakeholders and build strong and effective working relationships.
  • Highly proficient in client commercial management.
  • Curious and interested in technology and thinks first about how technology can be at the heart of client solutions
  • Business development experience a plus.

Personal Attributes

  • Self-motivated, driven, proactive, helpful, and enthusiastic team playe
  • Ability to think differently and come up with come up with solutions to unique problems.
  • Collaborative team player, open minded and willing to learn and evolve
  • Engaging communicator and ability to build relationships with all levels within and outside the business.
  • The ability to organise and prioritise workloads to maximise productivity.
  • Experience and desire to publish or speak publicly would be advantageous