Senior Account Director

As Senior Account Director, you are critical to the delivery of our ambition; working closely with the Associate Director, you will be a key interface for our clients and lead planning projects from start to finish, acting as the conduit who brings together our specialists to deliver exceptional work. The Senior Account Director needs to have a strong understanding of all channels and the role these can play in overall communications solutions and customer journeys, alongside understanding customers on site behaviours and how those affect final business results.

5 best things about the job:

• Getting to lead the planning and strategy for a range of different brands and products within the respective clients.
• To see the direct impact your work and thinking has on brands whose businesses want growth as well as the opportunity to deliver entrepreneurial thinking around these clients and trial, test and learn.
• We are a friendly and ambitious team that prides itself on an inclusive culture and doing brilliant award-winning work, whilst having plenty of fun along the way.
• You will work with clients that are truly passionate about their businesses and look for us to be genuine partners in their ambitions and goals.
• Access to local and global best in class people, tools, systems and insights, designed to enable our people to learn and develop and deliver fresh thinking and growth for our clients.

Measures of success:

• In three months, you would have a good understanding of your clients, media planning systems, processes and working with the team collaboratively.
• In six months, you would have built strong, trustworthy client relationships and established yourself as a key day-to-day lead on the account.
• In 12 months, you would have taken on additional responsibilities spotting opportunities to sell in wider EssenceMediacom or WPP services.

Responsibilities of the role:

• Oversee the day-to-day running of the accounts, ensuring flow and accuracy of work.
• Build a strong relationship with your clients and become a trusted strategic partner.
• Be a confident and competent communications planner who demonstrates a thorough understanding of our Systems Planning approach.
• Grow your understanding of digital, data, web and marketing technology.
• Contribute to the commercial targets set for your business group by proactively identifying and pursuing additional services opportunities on your clients.
• Develop strong internal relationships with Planners outside of your team.
• Promote your team’s brilliant work, both within EssenceMediacom and beyond.

What you will need:

• Strong management and client relationship skills.
• People management skills to support Associate Director in the management and development of Planners and Execs.
• Solution-focused mindset.
• Enthusiasm, curiosity, and a team player mentality.
• Self-motivated; an ambition to make the ordinary extraordinary.
• A thirst to learn.
• An ability to prioritize and delegate, as well as manage both up and down.
• Motivated to drive business results for both client and EssenceMediacom.
• Positive, proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Calm under pressure.
• Accurate verbal and written feedback and instructions.
• Strong knowledge across the broad spectrum of offline and digital channels and strategies.
• Good understanding of measurement approaches for multichannel activity.
• Analytical thinker who naturally gets into detailed data to understand what is driving or holding back performance.

About EssenceMediacom:

We are a global communications agency leading with breakthrough thinking, building explosive growth for brands, and helping our clients see the bigger picture. Our daring global network of 10,000 influencers help our clients breach traditional boundaries in media, uncover novel ideas, and unleash exponential growth. EssenceMediacom challenges conventional thinking to build, propel, and supercharge our clients’ businesses at scale and lead our industry in critical areas such as diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability.

EssenceMediacom understands that our people are tasked with big goals: building breakthrough growth for brands and leading with breakthrough thinking in our industry. Our people are at the heart of this work because their ideas will enable us to decode the intersections of people, content, and technology to bring our aspirations to life. Our success is down to our eclectic, diverse, and talented people. EssenceMediacom is a place for us to grow our careers and expand our horizons.

EssenceMediacom is committed to building an agency culture that supports our people, puts diversity at the forefront of our operations, and creates opportunity for all.