Account Director

Craft; Leeds; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual performance-based bonus

Individual training and inspiration

Early finish on Fridays

Job summary

Craft in Leeds is seeking an Account Director to lead strategic branding programmes for FMCG clients. You’ll own delivery across the full lifecycle, protect quality and drive commercial growth while steering senior stakeholder relationships.

Day-to-day you will translate client objectives into creative solutions, present to senior teams, spot expansion opportunities, mentor junior handlers and collaborate closely with the creative team to resolve challenges in real time.

Qualifications

• Brand and packaging experience in FMCG (food, drink, sports nutrition, alcohol)
• Experience as Account Director or Senior Account Manager in branding/creative agencies
• Ability to own multiple live projects and manage senior client relationships
• Profitability management and mentoring junior handlers

Responsibilities

• Own delivery across the full lifecycle and protect the quality of the work.
• Lead senior stakeholders through presentations to secure buy-in.
• Identify expansion opportunities to grow accounts rather than just service them.
• Translate client objectives into creative solutions with the creative team.
• Resolve problems in real time and mentor junior account handlers.
• Maintain strong client relationships and commercial steer.

Skills

Brand leadership

FMCG branding

Job description

This studio has spent fifteen years building a reputation for strategy-led branding that cuts through in FMCG - food, drink, sports nutrition, alcohol, pet care. This is an Account Director role that sits inside that independent Leeds branding studio where you'll hold the relationship, steer the work, and deal directly with the clients.

The Role

You'll be the trusted lead on multiple strategic branding accounts at once - owning delivery across the full lifecycle, protecting the quality of the work, and holding the commercial steer that turns ambitious brands into long-term, growing relationships.

Day-to-day, that means translating client business objectives into creative solutions, leading senior stakeholders through presentations that secure buy-in, and spotting the expansion opportunities that grow an account rather than just service it. You'll work directly with the creative team to solve problems in real time, and you'll mentor junior account handlers, setting the standard others work to.

The Package

• Annual performance-based bonus
• Individual training and inspiration budget
• Early finish on Fridays

The Person

You're an Account Director now, or a Senior Account Manager ready to step up, from a branding, design or creative agency. Your background is FMCG: brand and packaging work in categories like food, drink, sports nutrition or alcohol.

You already juggle multiple live projects, own senior client relationships, manage profitability, and mentor more junior handlers. What you want next is the authority to match the accountability.

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