Group Account Director

The Mint Agency; Toronto; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading creative agency as a Group Account Director, where you'll be at the forefront of building impactful client relationships and driving business growth. This role emphasizes strategic thinking, creativity, and leadership within a vibrant and collaborative environment. Help shape innovative solutions that foster brand love and a positive cultural impact.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a similar leadership role.
• Proven track record in client relationship management.
• Ability to mentor and build high-performing teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior point of contact for key clients.
• Develop strategies to drive organic growth in existing accounts.
• Lead and inspire teams to achieve project deliverables.

Skills

Strategic Thinking

Relationship Building

Leadership

Creativity

Problem Solving

Job description

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Group Account Director - Job Description

The Role

You’re a seasoned business leader, strategic thinker, and creative enthusiast who thrives on building powerful partnerships, building and nurturing high-performing teams, and helping brands grow through radical collaboration. You’re a coveted business partner to your clients who quickly earns trust, resulting in clients feeling confident, inspired, and challenged by our partnership. You embrace the need to move fluidly between visionary leadership and hands-on execution, all while championing a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence. Above all else, you foster an environment that’s fun and people want to be part of.

The Group Account Director will be responsible for the following:

Business Leadership & Partnership

• Serve as the senior point of contact for key clients, fostering deep, strategic relationships.
• Develop a deep understanding of our client’s businesses in order to lead the agency through solving the right problems and identifying growth opportunities.
• Provide thought leadership that’s built on a strong understanding of 4Cs relevant to each client.
• Oversee the project intake process to ensure the agency is effectively set up to solve clear problems and/or opportunities with proper casting, timelines, deliverables and budget in place.

Organic & New Business Growth

• Identify and pursue growth opportunities within existing accounts, expanding services and capabilities.
• Collaborate with strategy, creative, production and operations teams to shape and pitch new ideas that drive growth, via organic and new business.
• Contribute to new business pitches taking on a key role in developing relationships that demonstrate our approach to radical collaboration.
• Help define and activate strategic plans that unlock long-term client value.
• Finance & Operations Management
• Own financial oversight for accounts including forecasting, scoping, ongoing cost management and reconciliations.
• Build annual business plans, including revenue targets and growth strategies for clients within your portfolio.
• Lead project SOW development, ensuring client’s budget adequately reflects the deliverables, proactively identifying scope creep, addressing internally and with clients.
• Manage monthly staff expenses against revenue to ensure your team is adequately resourced against deliverables and delivering against profitability targets provided to you.
• Oversee the project intake process, ensuring the account and PM team is capturing the correct information from clients that enables proper resourcing and execution of a project.
• Drive process improvements that enhance team efficiency and project delivery.
• Model and foster a culture of creativity, inclusivity, curiosity, and integrity.
• Lead and inspire an account and PM team, fostering a culture of collaboration, growth, and ownership.
• Mentor talent to help build the next generation of agency leaders.
• Conduct regular and ongoing feedback and career development conversations, understanding everyone has unique skills and career paths.
• Be a voice in shaping internal initiatives that make the agency a coveted place to work.
• Bring an audacious spirit that inspires teams and clients to think big.
• Partner closely with strategy and creative leadership, leading the agency process from start to finish, ensuring the right people are in the right places at the right times.
• Champion work that pushes boundaries and reflects the spirit of our brand.
• Advocate for bold, impactful creative that solves real business problems.
• Obsess over our craft from strategy to launch, ongoing problem solving to ensure we’re never compromising on product.
• Keep a pulse on industry trends and ensure the agency’s work stays ahead of the curve.

About Mint

We’re an independent creative agency made of culture creatures with multidisciplinary expertise across all major marketing disciplines.

Driven by creativity and inspired by humanity, we focus on brand love between companies and people. Our best work is done through true partnership, as an extension of, and advisor to, our clients. Guided by a core structure, we build bespoke teams to collaborate on our client’s individual business problems to produce creative work that makes a positive impact on culture and the future.

Our Values

• Empathy - We believe the work is better when we consider the world through the eyes of others.
• Optimism - We believe in the good above all else; the good in people, the good in the world and the good in our future.
• Audaciousness - We are brave enough to try the untried and unexpected. And we dare to always follow through.
• Progressiveness - We fear the status quo, so we break conventions and push to evolve, innovate and disrupt.
• Kindness - We are respectful, honest, transparent, inclusive, social and good to each other.

What we do: Advertising, Design & Branding, Strategy, Social, Digital, Content, Experiential, PR and Talent & Influencer.

Mint is committed to creating a diverse work environment and is proudly an equal opportunity employer.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Advertising and Administrative

• Industries

  Advertising Services

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