Account Director
On-siteManila, Metro Manila, Philippines
Job Summary
Lead the Client relationship and manage one or multiple accounts as the primary contact to the Client's senior marketing team. Drive long-term business growth targets with accountability for the budget and planning, delivering strong ideas and flawless execution through interdisciplinary team management. Build appropriate scopes of work to meet financial goals while authoring high-level POV weaving in data, analysis, and insight. Maintain a big picture view to solve complex marketing challenges, protect big ideas once sold-in, and establish work ethic expectations for the team. Develop growth plans, monitor progress, and provide timely feedback to ensure sound strategies and fully integrated solutions.
Required Qualifications
- Leadership and overall management of the Client relationship
- Primary contact to the Client's senior marketing team
- Drive long-term business growth targets
- Accountability for the budget and planning
- Overall service and profitability of assigned account(s)
- Smart thinking
- Big picture view
- Creative problem solving
- Collaborative approach
- Strong partnerships with clients, agency resources and account team
- Management of interdisciplinary team
- Management of team leads
- Appropriate risks
- Relentless focus on results
- Passion for the agency, the work and the client's business
- Accountability for own actions
- Accountability for agency team performance
- Accountability for client results
- Build appropriate scopes of works
- Staff plans to drive and meet financial goals
- Sound business acumen
- Sound strategies
- Fully integrated solutions
- Sell-in strategic, creative and media implications
- Author a high-level POV
- Weaving in data, analysis and insight
- Incorporating team content, thinking and perspective
- Leadership role in actively nurturing and contributing to the development of creative ideas
- Guidance of sell-in strategy
- Partnership with Strategy and Creative teams
- Pre-conditions the client
- Protection of the big idea once sold
- Establish work ethic and quality of delivery expectations
- Challenge and inspire the team
- Manage the team's strengths and weaknesses
- Develop growth and development plans
- Monitor progress
- Provide timely feedback
- Pull together the right people
- Solve the client's marketing problems
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