Account Director

Digitas UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Digitas UK is seeking an Account Director to shape and deliver high-profile healthcare and lifestyle programmes, orchestrating multidisciplinary teams and senior stakeholder relationships to turn complex briefs into tangible outcomes. You will lead international client programmes, align strategy, commercial aims and delivery, and create momentum through transformation, collaboration and innovation.

The role rewards commercial acumen, strategic curiosity, and the ability to work across strategy,

Responsibilities

• Lead Client Relationships
• Foster transformation and growth
• Manage complex, international programmes
• Coordinate cross-disciplinary teams
• Deliver measurable impact for healthcare client
• Build senior stakeholder trust

Job description

As an Account Director, you will help shape and deliver high-profile work for an ambitious healthcare client expanding its role in people's everyday lives. You'll bring strong consumer experience instincts, orchestrate multidisciplinary teams, build trusted senior stakeholder relationships and ensure complex programmes become tangible, deliverable realities.

If you're excited by the intersection of health, lifestyle and connected customer experiences, and thrive in the complexity of turning ambitious transformation into momentum, this role offers a rare opportunity to make your mark.

The Opportunity

We're looking for an Account Director with strong consumer experience credentials; someone who can combine commercial acumen with strategic curiosity, operational excellence with relationship-building skills, and a passion for shaping work that connects meaningfully with people's lives.

You will work across major international programmes for an ambitious healthcare organisation broadening its role in health, wellbeing and lifestyle, spanning connected customer experience, digital transformation, ecosystem design, content strategy, data, technology and organisational change.

You will help the client rethink how they engage consumers, create more intuitive and connected experiences, drive adoption of new ways of working and unlock growth through innovation.

Your Responsibilities:

Lead Client Relationships

• Act as a trusted day-to-day adviser to senior client stakeholders
• Build strong relationships founded on credibility, transparency and delivery
• Understand client priorities and proactively identify opportunities and challenges
• Create confidence through clear communication, strong leadership and expert counsel
• Lead complex, multidisciplinary programmes from initiation through to delivery
• Maintain visibility across priorities, dependencies, risks and critical decisions
• Ensure teams remain aligned against strategic objectives and commercial goals
• Establish effective governance, reporting and programme management rhythmsCoordinate specialists across strategy, creative, experience, content, data, technology and delivery
• Foster collaboration and integrated thinking across diverse disciplines
• Create an environment where teams can do their best work while staying focused on the bigger picture
• Bring together different perspectives to solve complex problems

Facilitate Transformation

• Help client stakeholders navigate change, operational alignment and build momentum
• Support adoption of new operating models, customer experiences and ways of working
• Translate strategic ambition into actionable plans and deliverable outputs
• Drive alignment across large stakeholder groups with competing priorities

Support Commercial Growth

• Manage programme scope, budget and commercial performance
• Identify opportunities to deepen relationships and expand engagements
• Support new business opportunities and strategic growth initiatives
• Ensure work delivers value for both clients and the agency

What Success Looks Like

• Become a trusted partner to senior client stakeholders
• Successfully lead large-scale international programmes
• Create alignment across complex organisations and diverse teams
• Build momentum behind ambitious transformation initiatives
• Deliver exceptional work that drives measurable impact
• Help grow strategic client relationships and unlock new opportunities
• Inspire confidence, energy and collaboration wherever you work