Job Description
Senior Account Director – Leading Creative Agency – Tech/ Thought Leadership
Location: London
Contract Type: Permanent
This leading global Creative Agency is looking for a Senior Account Director to join one of their biggest and most exciting accounts.
You will be experienced in working with global brands and up to speed with the ever-changing media landscape and the burgeoning role of content.
Experience in working on cross-channel campaigns/projects will be expected. You will also be enthusiastic, motivated, and able to thrive – and stay calm – under pressure.
Account/Client:
They work closely with a range of the client’s marketing departments across the globe. This role will be particularly focused on working with the US (B2B) team working across multi-disciplinary projects, including thought-leadership, film, social and long-form content. Although the majority of the team is UK-based, some travel to the US may be required for key meetings or workshops.
Key Tasks & Responsibility
Client Services
- Oversee complex, high-profile projects and be the linchpin between the agency and client.
- Comfortable controlling every aspect of the process – briefing, scoping, costing, resourcing, client management and delivery of work.
- Manage senior client contacts, and ensure that the BD is kept abreast of their upcoming marketing plans.
- Ensure regular client communication and contact; emails, calls, and face-to-face meetings in the US (when applicable).
- Assist in the management of agency resource and financial planning and reporting.
- Build on the positive and professional relationships with the existing clients and identify new ways to strengthen these further. Team
- Ensure there is cooperation and clear communication between all team members – working with a variety of job roles and personalities.
- Ensure the team is clear on briefs and help them to deliver best-in-class creative.
- Work with the Project and Resource Management team to develop working schedules for the projects and to allocate appropriate resource based on these schedules.
- Ensure the correct and up-to-date resourcing on all projects and work with AM/PM to allocate resource effectively for the whole account.
- Work with the Account and Project Management teams to ensure there is an understanding of each project’s scope-of-work financials, schedule, and deliverables.
Finance
- Create accurate quotes and budgets for ad hoc projects and ensure these are reconciled once the job has been completed.
- Responsible for the profitability of owned projects, ensuring they are delivered on time and on budget, and identifying where efficiencies can be made across workstreams.
- Working with the finance department to manage billing processes – tracking of PO’s, and invoicing.
- Working with the Business Director to review and assess monthly and quarterly financials to ensure they are accurate and fair.
Skill sets
- Experience running global accounts
- Confidence in running complex, integrated projects