Remote Waitrose Account Director - MG OMD in Bristol

We're on the hunt for a passionate, strategic and sharp Account Director to join the Waitrose and Battersea team. This is a fantastic opportunity for a capable AD who is both commercially astute and creatively driven. You'll be leading the charge on media planning, inspiring standout ideas and working closely with both our clients and internal teams. You'll collaborate with specialists across the agency, manage a talented Account Manager and Executive and report into a Business Director.

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, love retail and want to create award-winning work that makes an impact, we want to hear from you.

About the Role

The role will be fast paced and agile, and you will be pivotal in ensuring that client deliverables maintain a high standard, and proactively look to anticipate client needs, leading and overseeing the day to day running of both accounts. Integration with the wider client and specialist teams will be fundamental to ensure all campaigns deliver to client objectives and are planned, implemented and reported upon effectively. Additionally, there will both a Planning and Strategy Director support on client responses as well as a full digital planning team to assist on that element too.

About You

You'll be organised, confident and passionate about great media planning. Excellent at building client relationships and have autonomy to run activity and nurture the team. You'll build strong relationships at all levels, and we hope that you thrive in an agency which is caring, passionate, hardworking, fun and like a family (of 500!) even if only for a short time.

Role Requirements

• This role requires a well-rounded, inspirational Account Director with media agency experience.
• Direct and nurture your team in the coordination and timely delivery of campaign responses and day to day management of client requests.
• You will be as comfortable servicing clients as rolling your sleeves up and leading on media briefings/responses.
• Ability to digest, interpret, and respond to client briefs in a high-paced environment.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills with proven expertise in presentation storytelling to deliver impactful, persuasive proposals to clients.
• You will look to challenge clients where necessary and work with them to form a trusted relationship.
• You will be competent planning across all media channels – including digital.
• You will also be competent on all media planning tools (such as e-Telmar) and can dissect data to tell a compelling story.
• Without question your attention to detail is sound, you are a conscientious worker, who is as confident in front of clients as the wider agency.
• You will have a passion for brands; the ability to deliver great work; have fantastic interpersonal skills; and be curious and passionate about the UK media marketplace.
• Have strong capabilities within use of data and tools to provide evidence-based media strategies to meet client objectives which clearly describe how each channel contributes to objectives and goals.
• Develop strong relationships with specialist channel teams to ensure effective working processes and best in class work delivery.
• Look to educate the client – provide innovation session with key media owners to keep client up to date with industry developments.

Flexible Working

At Omnicom Media Group, we are committed to supporting flexibility for our people while fostering collaboration, innovation, and teamwork. We have a hybrid working model (three days in the office, two working remotely), to ensure that we meet the needs of both our people and our business, balancing the benefits of in-person connections with the flexibility of remote working. Our standard working hours are 9:30 – 17:30, but we offer the ability to flex around core hours of 10:30 – 16:30 to give our people flexibility on how they manage their working day.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at OMG

At OMG, our vision is to be an agency where difference is valued and everyone is able to thrive in a culture of equality, inclusion and belonging. We are committed to providing a truly inclusive environment that reflects today's society, where everyone is able to bring their true selves to work, and where diverse voices and backgrounds are valued, heard, and well-represented.