About this EMEA Growth Associate role at AKQA

AKQA · Onsite · London

At AKQA (part of WPP), we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to create beautiful ideas, products, and services. With an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach, we design adaptive digital services and applications that capture the imagination, delivering impressive returns for our clients.

This is a newly created role sitting at the heart of AKQA's EMEA growth function. You'll work directly with regional leadership to support the systems, rhythms and materials that help us develop and win new business — and deepen our relationships with existing clients.

This is a role for someone with the ambition to grow fast and the drive to make things happen. You'll be at the centre of how we win and develop business across the region — bringing order to complexity, keeping senior leaders connected and prepared, and building a deep understanding of how a world-class agency operates. We see it as a genuine launchpad: into client services, strategy or business development. You'll work alongside senior leaders across EMEA, experiencing the full arc of agency life — from the first spark of a new business opportunity through to long-term client relationships and regional strategy.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Pipeline & Salesforce Management: Act as the EMEA growth team's Salesforce SME — owning data quality, keeping pipeline records current, running regular reports and acting as the go-to reference point for pipeline queries. Produce accurate, well-presented data to support monthly and quarterly regional business reviews.
Growth Meeting Orchestration: Schedule and coordinate the full calendar of growth-related meetings across the region. This includes sessions between AKQA's senior leadership and key clients, bi-annual client planning reviews for top accounts.
Deck Design & Production: Design and build presentation decks to AKQA's standard — credentials, case studies, business review materials and pitch support. Take raw inputs and turn them into clean, on-brand, well-structured slides ready for senior and client audiences.
Regional reporting support: Pull together the inputs needed for regional business reviews — gathering updates from studios, extracting Salesforce data and collating it into a coherent picture that leadership can review and act on.
Materials Repository & Knowledge Management: Help to build and maintain a well-organised, accessible repository of AKQA's best work — credentials, case studies, thought leadership, QBRs and winning pitch decks. Ensure the right material is easy to find and ready to use.
Culture & Collaboration: Become a trusted, embedded member of the EMEA growth team. Build relationships across studios and seniority levels, operate with discretion, and bring a collaborative, can-do energy to everything you do.

QUALITIES & CHARACTERISTICS:

Industry curiosity: A genuine interest in the creative and technology industry. You want to understand the business behind the work, not just execute tasks.
Organisational rigour: Impeccable organisational skills and attention to detail. You create structure out of complexity and follow through without needing to be chased.
Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Comfortable drafting agendas, meeting notes, briefing documents and emails to senior stakeholders — clear, concise and professional.
Systems & data confidence: Comfortable working with CRM and pipeline tools. Salesforce experience is a strong plus — what matters most is being someone who picks up new systems quickly and takes pride in data quality.
Stakeholder confidence: Able to build trusted relationships across all levels of the business and clients.
Appetite for automation: Curious about AI tools and workflow automation. You don't need to be technical, but you're interested in how agents and smart tools can make the team's work faster and smarter.
Digital tools: Confident with Google Workspace, Slack, Microsoft tools and standard office applications. Familiarity with project or workflow management tools is a bonus.
Basic Keynote and Figma skills

Explore our extensive range of benefits here.

We believe great work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach including required in-office days. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

AKQA is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

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About AKQA

CORE VALUES

Our founding values guide our work and the philosophy of our firm:

Innovation – pioneering ideas combined with the application of technology, to achieve lasting improvements in performance for our clients.

Service – outstanding service to our clients and colleagues, so we retain exceptional people and create trust-based relationships with clients.

Quality – adhere to the highest professional standards and superior quality.

Thought – recommending the best solutions through the most rigorous thinking process.

TEAMWORK

AKQA provides the highest quality ideas and innovation services to clients around the world. Our consistent track-record of results achieved for clients have set our firm apart. Through our focus on our core values, thought-leadership, rigorous delivery, and industry initiatives, AKQA is today one of the world’s most influential companies. Our goal is to become a high-performance environment where the most talented people flourish. With our perfectionist approach, people join AKQA for the opportunity to do the best work of their careers.

We create digital products, services and immersive experiences that are useful, usable, delightful and enjoyed by millions. We employ a rapid ideation and prototyping process that focuses on getting pilots into market quickly, helping clients make a sustained impact, increase their relevance and expand their connection. By embracing a pioneering approach that continues to lead and define the industry, we deliver cohesive blueprints that fulfil audience needs and surpass business goals.

LONG-TERM COMMITMENT

AKQA is committed to helping our team develop into the best possible practitioners and to providing them with an unparalleled foundation for their career. We help develop well-rounded professionals acquire leadership skills more quickly than at other organisations. Our employees benefit from the trusted long-term nature of our client relationships as well as the cultural alignment between the client and our own organisation, creating an optimum environment to deliver the work without any compromises.

ORGANISED TO SUCCEED

The core motivation at AKQA is product excellence. Although we are part of WPP, AKQA operates as an independent firm. Organically grown, our team works as a single firm, without geographic division. This means we can bring the best resources from our network to provide solutions for our clients.

In addition to our own Future Lions initiative, we have formed partnerships with many of the world’s leading universities so we can hire their best graduates. We combine youth and energy with maturity and experience to form a community that has a unique diversity of knowledge and exceptional professional judgement.

DEVELOPMENT

In addition to on-the-job training, AKQA offers a menu of training through the AKQA Academy and WPP Professional Development. This comprehensive curriculum of formal training is designed to equip our team with the substantive creative, engineering, business acumen, communications, management and analytical skills required to have professionally rewarding careers. AKQA Academy and WPP Professional Development courses are taught by leaders in their fields including AKQA’s own senior team and respected external experts.

To maintain the continuous focus on our core values, and provide a clear career path for our team, all of our Managing Directors and Executive Partners are promoted from within AKQA.

All AKQA employees and clients are invited to participate in the AKQA Insight and AKQA Tech.Insight thought leadership programmes. These comprise a series of informative lectures and Q&A sessions with authors, artists, athletes, scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs who are recognised leaders in their respective disciplines.

DIVERSITY

We believe that diversity is vital to AKQA’s ability to provide our clients with the best recommendations and are committed to fostering a varied and inclusive work environment. We provide our employees with the canvas, tools and confidence to help them advance their careers in a way that best suits them.

SUSTAINABILITY

At AKQA we believe everything a company does should be about taking the responsibility to be respectful towards the community and the environment. We consider community and pro-bono work to be an important commitment of our employees. We encourage our team to devote their skills to a broad range of pro-bono and community activities, working with myriad charitable and not-for-profit organisations. AKQA is part of WPP’s Sustainability initiatives. WPP is ranked no. 49 in an annual round-up of the World’s Greenest Companies.

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