Senior Account Director

Role: Senior Account Director

Location: Surrey, England, United Kingdom

About the role:

Working in partnership with a group of clients, the Senior Account Director leads the day to day of the individual account working closely with the client and the team. The role ensures delivery against growth and account performance targets, alongside maintaining positive working relationships across all accounts in the group.  

Reporting to the Group Account Director or The Managing Partner the Senior Account Director oversees the team within their portfolio with support from the capability leads.    

What you will be doing:

• Line management of Account Directors and Senior Account Managers, with oversight of Account Managers and Account Executives
• Handle revenue growth through the existing portfolio and supporting new business wins
• Provide accurate gross profit & MI reports to senior management, including margin management
• Build strong value-add client relationships at various levels – particulary at Brand Management level. 
• Work in collaboration with clients and be responsible for Brand Guardianship on their projects to ensure that the client experience is as positive as possible. 
• Own the execution of projects, run rates and client satisfaction through catchups with job owners and the weekly account/project management WIP.
• Help identify and convert business development and new business opportunities with assigned clients.
• Financial responsibility of up to £2M

What you need to be great in this role:

• Experienced leader and a strong understanding of how to motivate teams and clients
• Experience of building and sustaining meaningful client partnerships whilst maintaining a strong commercial focus.
• Results driven – creation of and delivery against business plans driven by growth targets
• Excellent communication skills to be able to robustly present ideas to clients, and continually cascade knowledge / news throughout immediate team and the wider business
• Confident working autonomously with partner or 3rd party agencies
• Excellent presentation skills – both written and spoken
• Understanding of how to integrate with a client-side team whilst maintaining a top tier agency service.
• Proactive and creative with the ability to generate ideas and practically contribute to studio output.
• 8+ years of relevant experience.

Req ID: 9940

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Last updated on Aug 19, 2024