Job Title: Account Director (Creative)
Client Location: London (Hybrid)
Starting: 23/06/2025
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 work with marketing, creative, production, strategy, finance, and external partners at each stage of a project; ensuring every team plays their part in progressing different aspects of the project. They do this from brief through to delivery.
* Strong campaign management skills, experienced at managing multiple projects end to end
* Ability to understand strategic purpose of a project and how that contributes to brand growth
* Experience in through-the-line communications – understanding how to manage 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, gets best out of people
* Strong communicator – written and verbal. Able to present confidently to stakeholders at all levels, both internally and externally
* Financial acumen and rigour in the day-to-day running of the account
* Experience working in fast-changing environments, managing multi-stakeholder marketing teams, with varying levels of seniority. Pan-market experience beneficial.
Day-to-day responsibilities
* Write status reports, check work against briefs
* Agree the brief with marketing to ensure it should be received by the agency and the right stakeholders are involved upfront
* Organise internal briefing sessions including working with strategy to develop briefs for internal teams
* Partner with Creative Directors and Executive Producers to enable the successful delivery of world-class creative
* Work with resource and production to organise resources, project plans, and budgets to deliver the brief
* Manage client communications on project progress, issue resolution, contact reports, status meetings, expectation management
* Lead client presentations for creative across all stages of the project. Agree feedback to progress at each stage and summarise next steps
* Responsible for leading end-to-end delivery of campaigns – from brief to completion
* Maintain an overview of project progression working with Production and Creative throughout to ensure the project is progressing on time, on budget, and meeting the original brief
* Escalate key issues and blockers to Senior Account Director and Head of Business as required, and facilitate the resolution of issues involving relevant marketing and stakeholder teams
* Ensure financial rigour across your business vertical. Support Senior Account Director in preparing monthly burn reports to Group Director of Operations and Heads of Marketing, plus tracking the retainer, day-to-day production budget oversight, and understanding if new briefs can be received. Ensure these are tracked accurately for review.
* Work with marketing to forward plan on projects, keeping up-to-date project laydowns and communicating upcoming priorities, delays, and issues to internal stakeholders
* Lead relationships with media agencies and other third parties (production companies and studios where applicable) to ensure collaboration.
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