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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 work with marketing, creative, production, strategy, finance, and external partners at each stage of a project, ensuring every team plays their part from brief through 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 team members.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present confidently to stakeholders at all levels, both internally and externally.
* Financial acumen and rigor in the day-to-day management of the account.
* 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 check work against briefs.
* Agree on the brief with marketing to ensure it is received by the agency and relevant stakeholders upfront.
* Organize 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 resources and production to organize resources, project plans, and budgets to deliver the brief.
* Manage client communications on project progress, issue resolution, contact reports, status meetings, and expectation management.
* Lead client presentations for creative across all project stages, gather feedback, and summarize next steps.
* Responsible for end-to-end campaign delivery—from brief to completion.
* Maintain an overview of project progression, working with Production and Creative teams to ensure timely, on-budget delivery meeting the original brief.
* Escalate key issues and blockers to Senior Account Director and Head of Business as required, facilitating resolution involving relevant stakeholders.
* Ensure financial rigor across your business vertical, supporting Senior Account Director in preparing monthly burn reports, tracking retainer and production budgets, and assessing new briefs' feasibility.
* Work with marketing to plan upcoming projects, communicate priorities, delays, and issues to internal stakeholders.
* Lead relationships with media agencies and third-party vendors to ensure collaboration.
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