Account Director

Responsibilities:

1. Delivering strategic direction to the team and assisting in the delivery of work, demonstrating impact, intellect, and creativity.
2. Leading on the execution of high value projects, campaigns, and work ensuring they deliver exceptional creativity, strategic thinking, and agreed contribution.
3. Working alongside the senior team both in-house and with clients to identify gaps and drive opportunities to grow the account into new areas, ensuring optimisation and client success. This will include having a good working knowledge of TLC’s offering and the overall agency business plan.
4. Participating in contract negotiations and budgetary discussions for high value work, partnerships, and collaborations, alongside the senior team including MD and Operations.
5. Effectively tracking, measuring, and analysing the success of projects and leading on the creation of case studies that reflect our best work – whether that be creatively or commercially effective – including award entries for best-in-class examples.
6. Managing team and client relationships with a deft touch and developing the ever-growing commercial bond with this key account.
7. Being commercially aware to ensure effective and smart use of budgets to ensure excellent campaign delivery whilst ensuring fiscal sense in relation to profitability and growth.

Skills and Experience Required

1. Proven experience working as an Account Director or Senior Account Director – preferably in the promotional space.
2. Experience managing big brand clients with cross/multi-market activations desirable.
3. Proven abilities in growing client revenues.
4. Innovative, a great idea generator, and a strategic thinker concerning brands.
5. First-class communicator who can comfortably negotiate and challenge.
6. Exceptional financial management skills and commercial acumen.
7. Great coach and mentor and an involved team manager.

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