Account Director

Tech Sales Jobs; Greater London; Hybride; GBP 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Hybrid work model

Office-based 3 days/week

Résumé du poste

Omnicom is seeking an Account Director in London to lead the planning and implementation of OOH campaigns from briefing through post-campaign analysis. You will guide junior team members, nurture senior client relationships, and drive revenue targets within Rapport and its clients such as Deliveroo, NatWest, Nike, Pinterest, Oura and Volvo.

Join a collaborative Blue & Purple Stream Team environment with strong internal partnerships and a focus on high-quality client service.

Qualifications

• Strong planning credentials with deep industry knowledge.
• Ability to anticipate client needs and manage senior client relationships.
• Spot opportunities and follow through to create tangible outputs for clients.

Responsabilités

• Take responsibility for client work, attend agency/client briefings, manage briefs and client expectations.
• Deliver high-quality planning output and client servicing; inspire teams to be brave.
• Develop deep understanding of clients' businesses to enable strategic OOH recommendations across the comms plan.
• Collaborate with Insight, Research, Impact and Trading to utilise the full Rapport services.
• Support team growth, including new business pitches and organic growth.
• Assist Business Director in maintaining team spirit and efficient operations; take on leadership tasks.
• Mentor junior planners and share knowledge across the planning team.

Connaissances

Strong planning credentials

Client relationship management

Strategic thinking

Communication & presentation

Mentoring/leadership

Description du poste

Account Director

Location: London, London, United Kingdom

Remote Type: Hybrid

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Agency:

Job Function:

Media

Job Subfunction:

Media Planning and Buying

Job Description:

ABOUT THE ROLE

The role sits within the Blue & Purple Stream Team – a planning team of 7 people responsible for working on business across Initiative & MediaHub, including clients such as Deliveroo, NatWest, Nike, Pinterest, Oura and Volvo, to name a few.

As part of the Blue & Purple Team the key relationships will be not only with Initiative, but also working directly with clients and creative agencies. Key Internal relationships are with the Business Director, Account Manager, Account Executive and the wider Rapport teams such as Insight and IMPACT.

Working in a team of 4, the Account Directors main role is to run the planning and implementation of OOH campaigns from initial brief through to post campaign analysis. This person will need to provide leadership to junior members of the team and ensure high quality service is always provided to clients. We are looking for an individual who is driven for career development, has a clear understanding of how to grow clients spend and is confident with building senior relationships.

You will have shared responsibility for meeting the yearly business and revenue targets for Rapport and will receive guidance on how to achieve this.

KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Take responsibility for client work e.g. attending agency/client briefings, taking ownership of briefs, managing client demands & expectations etc.
• Deliver high quality planning output and client servicing. Create and execute ideas for effective, award-level work and inspire agency planners / clients to be brave and ambitious on what they can achieve through OOH.
• Develop a deep understanding of our clients’ businesses to enable strategic OOH recommendations that will deliver on (long and short term) objectives in an integrated manner across the wider comms plan.
• Collaborate internally to ensure the full range of Rapport services are being utilised to create a distinct advantage for our clients – i.e. with wider team members across Insight & Research, Impact and Trading.
• Support Blue & Purple Streams Team growth ambitions across all clients, including new business pitches and organic growth
• Support the Business Director to maintain the excellent team spirit, collaboration and efficient running of the team. Offer help proactively to contribute towards team goals and look for opportunities to take ownership of some team responsibilities and develop your own leadership skills for the future.
• Manage the Account Manager within the team to develop their industry knowledge, planning skills, client experience and confidence, guiding and supporting on workflow management as required. Provide a structured development plan including regular growth and feedback opportunities.
• Share skills and knowledge across the planning team and offer mentoring or training to junior planners where applicable.

ABOUT YOU

• Strong planning credentials with deep industry knowledge.
• Ability to anticipate client needs and manage senior client relationships and expectations effectively.
• Spot opportunities and follow through to create tangible outputs that benefit Rapport and our clients.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills (both internally and externally) with a positive and professional can-do attitude.
• An understanding of the industry with a focus on company commercials and a view on how to deliver revenue targets.
• Motivating team player, happy to take the lead as required and leads by example.
• Able to provide guidance and assistance within the team. Can effectively delegate.

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

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