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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 each team contributes to progressing different aspects from brief to delivery.
* Strong campaign management skills, experienced at 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 teams
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills; confident in presenting to stakeholders at all levels, 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; pan-market experience is beneficial
Day-to-day responsibilities
* Write status reports and check work against briefs
* Agree on the brief with marketing to ensure clarity for the agency and involved stakeholders
* Organise 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
* 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 work at all project stages; gather feedback and outline next steps
* Oversee end-to-end campaign delivery from brief to completion
* Monitor project progression with Production and Creative teams to ensure timely, budget-compliant delivery meeting the original brief
* Escalate key issues and blockers to Senior Account Director and Head of Business as needed, facilitating resolution involving relevant stakeholders
* Maintain financial rigor, support Senior Account Director in monthly burn reporting, track retainer and production budgets, and assess capacity for new briefs
* Collaborate with marketing to plan ahead, update project timelines, and communicate upcoming priorities or issues to stakeholders
* Manage relationships with Mediacom and third-party vendors such as production companies and studios to ensure effective collaboration
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