Director
Full Time
Job Description
- Working collaboratively with our client teams to deliver a wide range of marketing projects across different channels
- Building strong relationships with our core team, the wider team and all your clients
- Owning the execution and delivery of projects, run rates and client satisfaction through catch ups with project owners and the weekly account/project management WIP
- Leading project managers working on projects with you and taking responsibility for their delivery, attention to detail, quality and relationships
- Line managing one of our Project Managers, setting objectives and helping them meet career objectives
- Escalating any service, quality or process issues to leadership team where needed
- Leading and managing your projects in terms of profitability, forecasting, client budget management and tracking
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Excellent people and client engagement skills with the ability to proactively organize and influence clients, building strong and effective working relationships
- Excellent account leadership skills with financial and commercial acumen, creative judgment, and the ability to think strategically
- Experience across the full range of marketing channels and the curiosity to learn about and experience new ones as they approach mainstream adoption
- First-rate communication and storytelling skills, in person, on zoom, in email and on ppt – with a preference for picking up the phone rather than emailing!
- Strong creative appreciation with the ability to generate ideas and practically contribute to the end-to-end creative process
- The confidence, empathy and pragmatism to allow you to stand up for what we think is creatively and strategically right – but recognize stakeholder demands on our client teams
- The ability to manage and develop junior team members
- The personality to fit into our team quickly, build relationships and add value
- The ambition to learn, develop and progress
- Experience of Financial Services or other large-scale accounts in regulated industries, such as utilities or telecoms
- 5 years+ agency experience; you'll probably already be working at or very near to Account Director level
Reference no: 104460