VCCP Media supercharges leadership team and sets out brand-new integrated ambition

VCCP Media, part of VCCP Group, announces a new leadership line-up and agency positioning. As part of the new supercharged team, LADbible’s Director of Marketing and Communications, Lindsay Turner, joins as Managing Director.

In addition to Turner’s appointment, Becky Marsh, VCCP Media’s Head of New Business and Kim Jamieson, Head of People, both join the leadership team.

VCCP Media’s new leadership team will continue to boost the agency, building on CEO James Shoreland and CSO Will Parrish’s work since joining in January, turning VCCP Media into a creativity-led, integration-minded agency.

So far this year, the media shop has already brought in £21.4m in new business wins, including Motability, Naturo, esure and Sheilas’ Wheels.

In her new role, Turner will work closely with James Shoreland to continue to deliver growth for VCCP Media and will be responsible for the smooth running of the agency, attracting the best talent, driving VCCP Media’s marketing and communications efforts and maintaining high standards across all VCCP Media’s client outputs. In her role at LADbible, Turner was at the forefront of creating and distributing relevant content for its Gen Z and millennial audiences.

Lindsay Turner joins from LADbible Group where she was Director of Marketing and Communications. In this role Turner oversaw all of the Group's commercial, brand, communications and design functions. Prior to this, Turner was Director of Client Solutions for LADbible Group's commercial team.

Before joining LADbible Group, Turner was CEO of Spark Foundry, part of Publicis Media, where she completed the merger of Blue 449 and Spark Foundry brands in December 2019.

Turner is passionate about championing female talent and was honoured Campaign's inaugural Female Frontier awards in 2020 as a Champion for Change. She was the co-chair of the Women at LAD internal network and is a member of the Digital Leading Ladies Network.

In addition to Turner’s appointment, both Becky Marsh and Kim Jamieson will join the new VCCP Media leadership team. Becky Marsh, Head of New Business, will be responsible for bolstering new business and growth for the integrated media agency. Marsh joined VCCP in 2022 with a decade of experience as a New Business and Marketing specialist. Since joining VCCP, she has helped win and retain multiple clients across a variety of categories, including recent VCCP Media wins esure, Motability and Naturo. Before joining VCCP, Marsh worked at GroupM’s agency, Wavemaker, where she began her career in 2013. She spent three years working for Wavemaker UK before transferring to Wavemaker Australia where she led the agency’s New Business and Marketing efforts.

Kim Jamieson’s role will consist of ensuring VCCP Media’s talent are at the heart of the agency, driving talent development opportunities, hiring people that align with the agency’s challenger ambition and retaining the agency’s best talent. Jamieson has worked in Media and Advertising roles for more than a decade and has been at VCCP for over seven years - she has held the role of Head of People for the past four years.

In addition, VCCP Media announces its new positioning realigning with VCCP Group’s mission, as the challenger agency for challenger brands. “We are VCCP. We do media. We just do it differently.”