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Account Director

Michael Page Digital
Posted 9 days ago, valid for 10 days
Location

Manchester, Greater Manchester M17 1DJ, England

Salary

£60,000 - £72,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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Sonic Summary

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  • The Account Director will oversee a group of client accounts in sectors such as leisure, travel, hospitality, FMCG, and third sector, focusing on developing impactful ATL campaigns.
  • Key responsibilities include leading a creative team, managing client relationships, driving client strategy, and ensuring campaign execution across various platforms.
  • Candidates must have a proven background in marketing and advertising agencies, with experience in advertising, direct marketing, and digital disciplines.
  • Strong leadership, project management skills, and a passion for creativity are essential, along with excellent commercial acumen and financial understanding.
  • The position offers a competitive salary along with industry-leading benefits, requiring candidates to have significant experience at the Account Director level.

As an Account Director, you'll take overall responsibility for a group of client accounts across leisure and travel, hospitality, FMCG and third sector - developing hard hitting ATL campaigns. You'll effectively lead, drive and develop an award winning team of people in delivering an excellent creative product and strategy, whilst providing outstanding client service and ensuring account profitability

Client Details

This agency is globally renowned. They pride themselves on the impactful, market challenging campaigns they create and deliver for their clients.

Description

  • Influence, develop and deliver integrated ATL campaigns
  • Manage and develop new and existing client relationships, striving to exceed their expectations to encourage client retention whilst pushing them creatively and strategically
  • Drive client strategy providing continuous strategic direction and input to key decision making and planning activity
  • Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of client objectives, working collaboratively to deliver campaigns to achieve these objectives and pushing colleagues to exceed creatively and strategically
  • Oversee the provision of high quality creative briefs, idea generation and campaign execution across multiple platforms from print to digital, ensuring all campaigns adhere to relevant legal and regulatory restrictions
  • Responsible for ensuring account team members are effectively managed and coached ensuring that they work to their best ability and have the opportunities and support to develop
  • Develop and maintain a high level of financial skill and commercial understanding

Profile

We're looking to speak to candidates with a proven background within marketing and advertising agencies - we're inviting candidates at Account Director level to apply.

  • Experience across advertising, direct marketing, sales promotion and digital disciplines
  • Proven leadership and team management skills
  • Proven project management skills
  • Strong conceptual thinking and an excellent appreciation of the creative process
  • A passion for creativity and a confidence in sharing own views on creativity and creative product
  • Excellent commercial acumen and financial understanding
  • Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Confident decision-making skills

Job Offer

Competitive salary and industry leading benefits

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.