Account Director

RocketMill; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital marketing agency is looking for a Senior Client Leadership member to handle several key client campaigns. This role involves growing and maintaining client relationships, ensuring outstanding delivery standards, and collaborating with various teams. The ideal candidate should possess a strong digital marketing skillset, agency experience, and excellent communication abilities. The position offers flexibility to work remotely or from offices in London and Brighton.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in digital marketing across multiple channels.
• Strong ability to grow and maintain client relationships.
• Previous experience in a digital marketing agency setting.

Responsibilities

• Grow and maintain account portfolio.
• Identify opportunities for deeper engagement with clients.
• Own end to end briefing process with internal and partner teams.
• Line manage junior members of the team.

Skills

Digital marketing skillset

Client relationship management

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Job description

Here's what we need

The Client Leadership team is passionate about integration. They are pivotal in bringing together and shaping all digital elements of customer journey. This extends Strategy, Advertising, Paid Media, SEO and Content as well as UX and Design. As a member of the Client Leadership team you will champion the integration of these service lines under RocketMill’s planning framework, Total Performance.

As a senior member of the Client Leadership team reporting to a Client Partner, you will act as both the voice of the customer and the voice of the agency. You will place our clients at the heart of the agency whilst owning several client campaigns.

To succeed in this role you will have a well-rounded digital marketing skillset with a thorough understanding of all channels. Your everyday motivation is to build and maintain momentum around our day to day commitment to clients.

Work remotely, or in our London and Brighton offices. Read more

The role covers briefings, developing successful digital strategies, internal and external communication, reporting and product development. To work successfully across these areas, you will need to be highly organised, command respect from clients and RocketMill staff, be an excellent communicator, and have the ability to nurture client relationships so that you are seen as a trusted advisor.

You will personally be responsible for a set of our largest campaigns, being ultimately responsible for retaining and growing them over the medium to long term.

Key Responsibilities

• Grow and maintain account portfolio
• Guarantee the standard of our delivery to clients
• Identify opportunities for deeper engagement with clients
• Grow client relationships
• Align the agency scope with client business objectives
• Establish an integrated roadmap of activity
• Effectively communicate the value of RocketMill contribution
• Track and report on client health
• Critical participant in inter‑agency collaboration
• Own end to end briefing process with internal, agency partner and in‑house teams
• Define a communication and delivery cadence
• Line manage junior members of the team
• Train team in Account Management best practice with relevant processes in place on all accounts
• Collaborate with other ADs to ensure consistency and cohesion across role and identify common initiatives
• Track portfolio profitability and create account action plans accordingly
• Ensure 100% alignment of MI platforms
• Identify upsell opportunities with existing clients
• Work with Client Partner on account development plans
• Contribute to marketing collateral

Essential Skills

• Previous agency experience
• A well‑rounded digital marketing skillset with a thorough understanding of all channels including paid media & SEO
• Proven track record of managing and growing a portfolio of accounts