VCCP - Senior Account Director - Mat Cover (12 month FTC) - July '26 in London

VCCP is the global challenger network for challenger brands.

With more than 1,500 people across 13 offices in North America, EMEA and APAC, we challenge convention to deliver value for the world’s most ambitious organisations.

We believe transformation happens when everything works together.

That’s why we bring specialists from every discipline - strategy, AI, data, media, digital, experience, branding, creativity, production, PR, CX, CRM, employee engagement and beyond - into one fully integrated network.

We were founded on the principles of simplicity, collaboration and un-preciousness, and we’ve grown by staying true to them.

Today, our clients include some of the world’s most recognisable and progressive brands, such as Virgin Media O2, Barclays, Cadbury, Compare the Market, Domino’s, White Claw, easy Jet, Primark and Co-op.

VCCP has topped the AAR’s annual new business ranking in 13 of the last 14 years and holds multiple Agency of the Year titles.

Across every company and every capability, we share the same ambition: to challenge ourselves, challenge our clients and challenge the industry for the better.

THE ROLE

We are looking for a Senior Account Director to manage a well known UK brand.

It's an integrated account but with predominantly TV ads, therefore we need someone with lots of TVC experience and production.

This is a maternity cover 12 month fixed term contract to start mid September.

You should have a demonstrable record of delivering best-in-class work and be able to talk confidently about strategy, providing interesting perspectives on creative.

You need to be able to oversee the end-to-end execution of campaigns with significant production budgets, partnering closely with stakeholders across the agency.

You should be comfortable with the process and able to spot opportunities to improve it where necessary.

WHAT MAKES A BRILLIANT VCCP SENIOR ACCOUNT DIRECTOR

• COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL
• VCCP SAD’s are the lead strategic adviser to their client(s) and the ‘go to’ person for helping them with their business issues.

You will report directly into the Business Director, but share the responsibility for managing the account.

• You will lead your account team to develop proactive and responsive strategic proposals that drive demonstrable value for your clients.
• You will identify and develop relationships with key budget-holding clients across their business at senior levels, seeking opportunities and developing plans for business growth within your accounts.
• You will develop and nurture relationships with senior people in partner agencies.
• You will be accountable for client revenue targets across your accounts – in terms of forecasts, the buck stops with you – you need to take responsibility for them, anticipating and reacting rapidly to changes in your clients businesses which impact on revenue.
• You will take the lead in client negotiations with senior-level procurement and marketing contacts to agree agency fees and retainers.
• ACCOUNT AND PROJECT ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT
• VCCP SAD’s are encouraged to work with their account team as they would their own mini agency and should be comfortable with the entrepreneurial atmosphere this creates – we take the initiative, we encourage entrepreneurs.
• With the above in mind, VCCP SAD’s lead and motivate the account teams to deliver first-class account management; ensuring projects delivered are of a high standard, on time and on budget.
• You will ensure compliance to VCCP company reporting and legal procedures as well as the management of the client account to the terms of any contractual agreements.
• You will ensure your team(s) are adhering to account billing processes, maintaining a sense of urgency in timely and accurate invoicing in line with, or ahead of, your forecast sessions with your Business Director and MD.
• DELIVERING ‘CHALLENGER AGENCY’ PRODUCT
• You will proactively develop, implement and share new ways to improve the quality of work within the agency – filling the agency’s founding principles and challenger philosophy.
• You will head up and take responsibility for the agency’s strategic and creative response to briefs, helping to evaluate in terms of quality and budget and benchmarking against objectives/KPIs set.
• You will work with your team to develop brilliant and inspiring briefs which help to deliver the very best strategic and creative work.
• You will oversee the formal evaluation of completed campaigns and sharing of results – it is important that you make sure learnings are shared across the agency as well as within your team.
• You will take leadership in reviewing creative work in an objective and constructive manner, working closely with the senior creative teams to deliver the best product possible in the pursuit of work the populates culture.
• INTEGRATION
• Written large across the walls of the agency is VCCP’s founding mantra is ‘IT ONLY WORKS IF IT ALL WORKS’.
• SADs at VCCP should have a broad range of skills to ensure ideas are conceived and delivered with this in mind.

They are responsible for challenging siloed thinking by ensuring an idea is media agnostic and that it is a simple enough thought that can work across every consumer touch points.

VCCP DE&I STATEMENT

At VCCP, DE&I means building a strong culture of inclusion, where everyone can thrive and bring their authentic self to work.

As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or ethnicity.

We're committed to making our hiring process accessible and comfortable for everyone, so if you're neurodivergent, have a disability, or need any adjustments or alternative formats during the interview process, just let us know at joinus@vccp. com.

CRIMINAL RECORDS INFORMATION

As part of our onboarding process, you will be required to complete a Criminal Records Declaration regarding any unspent convictions.

For roles in finance, HR, Legal, IT or senior management, we may be required to verify your declaration with a basic DBS check, as well as an Adverse Finance and ID check.