Account Director
$73,000–$79,000 year
HybridLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Manage and lead a team of account managers while driving each project forward from smaller tasks through to complex web builds. Lead and maintain client accounts, ensuring they are profitable and growing, and partner with senior clients to build tight-knit relationships between their teams and agency stakeholders. Proactively take responsibility for delivering quality creative work, develop cost estimates and proposals, and negotiate contracts and fees. Confidently make decisions and build persuasive rationales for them, bringing others along the decision-making process. Guide and motivate teammates, partners, and clients, while working with the sales team to pitch to potential clients. Maintain a detailed awareness of market trends affecting your accounts and developments in the wider branding and communications industry.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years' hands-on agency experience in Client Services
- Innate acumen for leading and managing creative brand and digital projects
- Proven experience managing client engagements of all levels
- Very strong financial and negotiation skills
- Extremely comfortable using project management tools and platforms
- Experience managing a mix of cross-sector projects, both B2B and B2C
- Very strong interpersonal and communication skills (fluent in English, spoken and written)
- Articulate in presenting work and facilitating workshops and pitches
- Efficient, detail-oriented, organised, and able to work under tight deadlines
- Able to balance day-to-day project deliverables, connect clients to the internal resources they need, and independently prioritise different workloads
- Team player who'll fit into our design-driven, collaborative team
Desired Qualifications
- Curious about brands and the positive impact they can have on the world
- Interested in more than just design
- Ambitious self-starter who can thrive in ambiguity
- Can-do positivity and optimistic attitude
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