Account Director

Our client is a leading creative content agency based in London currently looking for a commercially minded Account Director who can lead a small AM team, play a central role within the company and can actively nurture and grow our existing client base.

The Role
We are looking for someone with a client-first approach. Someone who thinks like a client, who understands commercial imperatives and business needs. It's strategy meets commerce.

The AD will be building rich, long-term client partnerships with senior decision makers and developing a deep understanding of their business structure, goals and requirements.

The role comes with commercial accountability, driving client growth and profitability, monitoring client satisfaction, leading client negotiation and ensuring delivery of contractual obligations.

We want to see a real drive to make an impact, both as a leader within the team but also on the business.

The right candidate will be an excellent communicator, the ultimate people person and most importantly of all, a solutioneer. You know, that person that knows everything and can turn a disaster into a win.

We need a self-starter who can truly lead a team. They will comfortably contribute to the high-level growth of the business as part of the Senior Management Team.

Our AD will have the ability to keep the day-to-day account management running smoothly, whilst also being proactively pitching to our clients based on a thorough and passionate understanding of who they are and what they care about.

About Us
We're a BIG agency condensed into a small package. We work with serious B2C brands (or brands that want to be taken seriously) Projects include film, photography, animation, strategy and design. You'll see our work on websites, on billboards, on social media and on TV. We want someone who is comfortable talking and walking with brands and who gets excited by helping them solve problems by utilising our very particular skills.

Our people are our number one priority - we truly believe that our culture and working relationships are what make the content we create so strong. The collaborative nature of all that we do results in award winning, client pleasing, fun projects to work on. We work hard but we recognise hard work and rewards take the shape in various forms. Think team nights out, office pizza lunches, epic summer parties and a fairly continuous supply of birthday donuts.

The Must Haves:

• Experience as an Account Director with proven client growth
• Experience managing a team of Account Managers
• Advanced skills in Microsoft office, Adobe CC
• Knowledge of resource planning and project management
• Team player with no ego who loves the challenging nature of small agency life
• A hunger to make an impact with strong ideas and amazing people skills
• Being self motivated without micromanagement
• A natural presenter - able to communicate often complex topics in a simple way.
• Possess self-confidence, gravitas and diplomacy skills to influence both internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• An ability to think creative in relation to our clients,

The Day to Day:

• Accountability for all projects staying on budget and on time
• Overseeing processes for QC internally
• Line management of 2 x Account Managers
• Ownership of Account Plans across all clients
• Pitching and presenting creative concepts to clients
• Client relationship management and entertainment
• Filtering higher level business comms down to the AM team

Benefits:

• Competitive bonus structure based on personal and business performance - up to 18% of base salary.
• Development allowance every year (courses, training, etc)
• Subscription to Headspace
• 25 days holiday per year (excluding bank holidays) plus 1 extra per year for each year
• 30 monthly wellbeing contribution
• Health Insurance
• Summer & Christmas Party

Please send CV alongside detail on client growth strategy, as well as proven metrics on current successess in your current role or past roles.

Creative Recruitment is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, age, sexuality, gender identification, or physical ability.