Integrated Client Services Director (12 month FTC)

Location: Hybrid (UK)Role: Integrated Client Services DirectorContract: 12 month FTC (with vision to go perm) Sector Focus: Sport, Partnerships, Multi-Channel Campaigns, Social & Digital Production

We're looking for an exceptional Integrated Client Services Director with a proven track record delivering multi-channel campaigns across sport, partnerships, social and digital ecosystems. You'll lead key client relationships, steer integrated creative and production processes, and champion culturally resonant, high-impact work that connects brands with fans.

This role sits at the intersection of sport, culture, partnerships, and digital innovation, making it perfect for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments and understands how sport moves audiences, communities and culture.

• Serve as the senior day-to-day lead across priority accounts, driving forward integrated campaigns from insight to execution.
• Build strong, trusted relationships with clients, providing strategic guidance across sports partnerships, content ecosystems, social channels and multi-channel activations.
• Translate audience insights, cultural moments and sporting relevance into actionable campaign thinking and clear creative direction.

• Lead end-to-end delivery of integrated brand campaigns spanning social, digital, experiential, partnerships, talent/ambassador activity and production.
• Oversee sports-aligned brand activations, ensuring campaigns feel authentic to fans, relevant to culture and rooted in audience behaviour.
• Drive the development of partnership assets, toolkits, social content, brand storytelling and multi-market campaign rollouts.

• Partner closely with creative, production and strategy teams to bring big ideas to life across channels.
• Oversee digital and social content production, ensuring platform-native output that meets sporting and cultural audience expectations.
• Maintain operational excellence across workflows, budgets, timelines and cross-functional team management.

• Identify growth opportunities within accounts and proactively shape how brands show up in sport and culture.
• Mentor and develop account teams, promoting best practice across integrated delivery, client communication and creative collaboration.
• Support new business efforts, contributing to pitch strategy, partnership thinking and campaign frameworks.

• Deep experience in sport - whether through brand partnerships, sponsorship activation, fan engagement, event marketing, or sport-adjacent campaigns.
• Strong background delivering multi-channel, integrated campaigns, ideally across social, digital, experiential and partnership environments.
• Demonstrated experience working with sporting organisations, rights-holders, talent, or culturally relevant brands.
• Proficiency in overseeing social content and digital production, with a clear understanding of platform behaviours and audience expectations.
• Natural client leader with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and guide strategic direction.
• Skilled at balancing creativity with delivery - ensuring ideas land with impact while maintaining operational excellence.
• Passionate about sport, culture, social storytelling and how fans interact with brands.

• Work across culturally-rich sport and partnership campaigns.
• Lead innovative, multi-platform creative work that shapes how brands show up in sport.
• Join a collaborative, ambitious environment where sport, culture, ideas and innovation collide.
• Opportunity to influence strategic direction, creative excellence and client growth.

Sphere Digital Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.