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Hours: Full-time
Duration: 9 months with potential to extend
We are looking for an Account Director to work with our client.
Summary
An Account Director is responsible for leading the end-to-end process of planning and implementing advertising and communications campaigns. They collaborate with marketing, creative, production, strategy, finance, and external partners at each stage of a project, ensuring every team contributes to progressing different aspects from brief to delivery.
* Strong campaign management skills, experienced in managing multiple projects end-to-end.
* Ability to understand the strategic purpose of a project and its contribution to brand growth.
* Experience in through-the-line communications, managing integrated 360 campaigns across multiple media formats.
* Manage all deliverables typical of an integrated advertising and communications campaign.
* Strong relationship-building skills—trust, collaboration, knowledge, and motivating team members.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills, confident in presenting to stakeholders at all levels, both internally and externally.
* Financial acumen and rigor in managing the account daily.
* Experience working in fast-changing environments, managing multi-stakeholder marketing teams with varying seniority levels; pan-market experience is beneficial.
Day-to-day responsibilities
* Write status reports and verify work against briefs.
* Agree on the brief with marketing to ensure proper receipt by the agency and involved stakeholders.
* Organize internal briefing sessions, including working with strategy to develop briefs for internal teams.
* Partner with Creative Directors and Executive Producers to enable successful delivery of world-class creative work.
* Coordinate resources, project plans, and budgets with resource and production teams to deliver the brief.
* Manage client communications regarding project progress, issue resolution, contact reports, status meetings, and expectation management.
* Lead client presentations for creative stages, gather feedback, and outline next steps.
* Oversee end-to-end campaign delivery from brief to completion.
* Maintain an overview of project progression, working with Production and Creative teams to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery aligned with the original brief.
* Escalate key issues and blockers to Senior Account Director and Head of Business, facilitating resolution involving relevant stakeholders.
* Ensure financial discipline, support monthly burn reporting, track retainer and production budgets, and assess capacity for new briefs.
* Work with marketing to plan upcoming projects, communicate priorities, delays, and issues to stakeholders.
* Lead relationships with media agencies and third-party vendors, such as production companies and studios, to ensure effective collaboration.
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