Founded in 2011, FINN Partners is one of the world's fastest-growing independent, integrated marketing and communications agencies. The firm operates from offices across North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, working across health, travel and tourism, technology, financial services, consumer and lifestyle, and public affairs.
The UAE office is based in Abu Dhabi. It is a small, close-knit regional team operating inside a large global network: the agency's scale and specialist resources sit behind a team where every hire has direct, visible impact on client work.
More about the role
Lead day-to-day management of significant international client accounts within FINN's travel and tourism practice, acting as the senior client relationship holder. Alongside this, contribute to new business development for the practice, including hands-on pitching for prospective clients.
Own the day-to-day delivery, quality, and client relationship for major accounts within the travel and tourism practice. Contribute to growth of the practice through new business development and pitching.
What you'll do
Manage day-to-day delivery of significant client accounts within the travel and tourism practice, including editorial quality control
- Serve as the senior day-to-day relationship holder for the client
- Lead and manage a freelance and junior support structure, including briefing, review, and quality control of first-draft content
- Write and lead new business proposals within the travel and tourism space, including research-led pitch platforms
- Represent the agency directly with clients on campaign positioning, trade activation, and research-based programme design
- Manage account financials, budgets, and reporting
- Review and quality-control materials prepared by junior staff against sourcing and editorial standards
- Work comfortably across multiple concurrent client projects in a small-team, start-up-style environment, moving quickly between them as priorities shift
- Travel as required for client meetings, trade shows, and market visits
- Reports directly to the Senior Partner, Middle East. May supervise freelance and junior account staff assigned to the accounts.
- Works with FINN's global network, client representatives, external vendors, news media, and other PR and advertising agencies.
- Communications and PR experience, with demonstrated travel, tourism, or destination-marketing account experience
- Fluent in English, with strong, confident writing skills; this role requires producing and reviewing client-ready copy directly
- Track record of managing multi-market or multi-office client programmes
- Demonstrated new business pitch experience; has personally written and presented proposals that won
- Strong editorial judgement and sourcing discipline, particularly on government or reputationally sensitive content
- Comfortable managing senior client relationships with limited oversight
- Comfortable in a small, start-up-style regional team environment; able to move quickly across different projects and accounts without extensive process or handholding
- Arabic language skills a strong plus, not a requirement
- Availability to travel internationally
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Skills Required
- Communications and public relations experience with travel, tourism, or destination-marketing account experience
- Fluent English and strong, confident client-ready writing skills
- Experience managing multi-market or multi-office client programs
- Demonstrated new business pitch experience, including personally writing and presenting winning proposals
- Strong editorial judgment and sourcing discipline, especially for government or reputationally sensitive content
- Ability to manage senior client relationships with limited oversight
- Ability to work effectively in a small, fast-paced, start-up-style regional team
- Arabic language skills
- Availability to travel internationally
Finn Partners Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Finn Partners and has not been reviewed or approved by Finn Partners.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with employer-paid base employee coverage, plus HSA/FSA options and mental health resources. Wellness support such as an annual subsidy and access to counseling and virtual therapy reinforces breadth of care.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off encompasses vacation/PTO, numerous paid holidays, sick and personal days, monthly half-days, Summer Days, and a paid Winter Break. Additional paid time for volunteering and Election Day supports balance and community involvement.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company matching (100% up to 3% plus 50% on the next 2%) is available after six months. The match structure and eligibility timeline provide tangible support for retirement savings.
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What We Do
1400+ People. 3 Continents. 33 Offices. We are a global integrated marketing agency transforming and inspiring the world of communications every day. A LETTER FROM PETER FINN: DECEMBER 2011. FINN PARTNERS WAS BORN. After 11 years serving as co-CEO of an historic agency that carried my father’s name— and mine!—and after 30+ years of working at the firm, I wanted to build something different, bold, meaningful and amazing for clients, our colleagues and the community. "Amazing" was, and is, for me an important word. I imagined we could be "amazing" every day, knowing this is a goal not always achieved but always pursued. A place where talented people could gather and do big things for clients as well as make a difference to the communities important to us. WE LAUNCHED WITH A GROUP WHO SHARED A VISION. This was to be a "new" agency model, driven by a collaborative spirit. We asked, "Can we bind our 60-year legacy to the energy and speed of today’s hi-tech world?" We had $24 million in fees at our founding. Today, we have more than $85 million in fees, over 700 colleagues and 18 offices across three continents. Our Founding Managing Partners, highly respected colleagues who took the leap with me from our former agency, have been joined by the principals of other great agencies that became Finn Partner companies. So many other talented individuals are with us, too, intrigued by the idea of doing amazing things in an amazing workplace community. WE’VE MADE OUR MARK QUICKLY. Finn Partners has been named “Best New Agency,” “Best PR Agency to Work for in North America” and“Best Mid-Sized Agency of the Year” three times. Now, we’re one of the world’s largest agencies. WE ARE A YOUNG AGENCY. We share the genes of a respected agency that pioneered today’s integrated communications. But we are not them. We are unique. We are ourselves. We are focused on the future, building that future during each amazing day.
