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The Client Partner is a central leadership role within the Client Leadership track, responsible for owning client relationships, leading strategy, and driving commercial growth. You are the day-to-day senior voice of Open Partners for your clients, shaping their marketing and business direction with consultancy-grade clarity, foresight, and influence.
Job Responsibility:
Lead the development and deployment of Effectiveness Roadmaps, RISE strategies, Annual Plans and Business Reviews
Own the creation and delivery of strategic narratives that integrate media, data and creative
Proactively identify strategic opportunities and risks
bring clear, structured recommendations
Lead client meetings with confidence, clarity and consultancy authority
Brief and partner with the Client Delivery Centre of Excellence
Shape how cross-functional teams collaborate and maintain standards
Leads a high-performing client team
Own commercial performance for your client portfolio
Identify and convert upsell, cross-sell and expansion opportunities
Maintain ≥95% forecasting accuracy
Partner with Principals on multi-year contracts or renegotiations
Understand client business models deeply
Build deep, trusted relationships across all levels
Develop and maintain client Champions
Spend meaningful physical time with clients
Demonstrate exceptional communication and influence
Lead or support senior conversations
Represent OP with professionalism and credibility
Use structured thinking, foresight and analytical rigour to solve complex challenges
Prioritise initiatives and solutions based on business impact
Lead hypothesis creation, testing and experimentation plans
Help clients navigate change, uncertainty and transformation
Contribute to OP’s collective intelligence
Help define how AI, automation and agent-based systems should be applied
Demonstrate strong integrated knowledge across media, creative and data disciplines
Act as the single source of truth for the client narrative
Ensure all work across disciplines is aligned, integrated and consistent
Provide structured feedback to Delivery and specialist teams
Bring perspectives on innovation, market shifts and best practice
Requirements:
Proven experience in a client-facing strategic or consultancy environment
Advanced strategic and analytical capability
able to turn insight into integrated recommendations
Demonstrated relationship-building and influencing skills across seniority levels
Strong commercial grounding (forecasting, budgeting, fees, value creation)
Excellent communication and narrative-building skills
confident presenting to senior stakeholders
A high standard of professional excellence and personal accountability
Nice to have:
Experience working across media, creative and data disciplines
Exposure to growth strategy, marketing transformation or commercial modelling
Experience leading integrated planning or cross-functional projects
Experience preparing or presenting to C-suite audiences