Account Director

Aquent; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Aquent is seeking an Account Director to oversee advertising and communications campaigns for a leading media and entertainment client. This role requires strong leadership in managing projects, collaboration with various teams, and ensuring successful delivery of integrated campaigns. The position is temporary for 9 months with potential for extension, based in London with a hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• Strong campaign management skills, experienced at managing multiple projects end to end.
• Strong communicator – written and verbal, able to present confidently to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of campaigns from brief to delivery.
• Manage client communications on project progress and issue resolution.
• Organize internal briefing sessions and develop briefs for internal teams.

Skills

Campaign management

Relationship building

Communication

Financial acumen

Job description

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Hours: Full-time

Duration: 9 months with potential to extend

Job Description:

We are looking for an Account Director to work with our client

Summary

An Account Director is responsible for leading the end to end process of planning and implementing advertising and communications campaigns. They work with marketing, creative, production, strategy, finance, external partners at each stage of a project; ensuring every team plays their part in progressing different aspects of the project. They do this from brief through to delivery.

• Account Director (Creative)
• 9 months with potential to extend
• London (Hybrid)
• Strong campaign management skills, experienced at managing multiple projects end to end
• Ability to understand strategic purpose of a project and how that contributes to brand growth
• Through the line communications experience – understanding how to manage integrated 360 campaigns across multiple media formats
• Manage all deliverables typical of an integrated advertising and communications campaign
• Strong relationship building skills – trust, collaboration, knowledge, gets best out of people
• Strong communicator – written and verbal. Able to present confidently to stakeholders at all levels, both internally and externally
• Financial acumen and rigour on day to day running of the account
• Experience working in fast changing environments, managing multi-stakeholder marketing teams, with varying levels on seniority. Pan-market experience beneficial.

Day-to-day responsibilities

• write status reports, check work against briefs
• Agree the brief with marketing to ensure it should be received by the agency and the right stakeholders are involved upfront
• Organise internal briefing sessions including working with strategy to develop briefs for internal teams
• Partner with CDs and EPs to enable the successful delivery of world class creative
• Work with resource and production to organise resources, project plans and budgets to deliver the brief
• Manage client communications on progress of projects, issue resolution, contact reports, status meetings, expectation management
• Lead client presentations for creative across all stages of project. Agree feedback to progress at each stage and summarise next steps
• Responsible for leading end-to-end delivery of campaigns – from brief to bus stop
• Maintain an overview of project progression working with Production and Creative throughout to ensure project is progressing on time, budget and meeting the original brief.
• Escalating key issues and blockers to SAD and HOB as required, and facilitating the resolution of issues involving relevant marketing and SCA stakeholder
• Financial rigour across your business vertical. Supporting SAD preparing monthly burn reporting to Group Director of Operations and Heads of Marketing, plus tracking the retainer, day to day production budget oversight and understanding if new briefs can be received. Ensure these are tracked accurately for SAD and HOB to review
• Work with marketing to forward plan on projects, keeping up to date project laydowns and communicating upcoming priorities, delays, issues to internal stakeholders
• Lead relationship with Mediacom and other third parties (Production companies and studios where applicable) to ensure collaboration.

Client Description:

Our Client is a giant media and entertainment company, with over 24 million customers in Europe. They’re keen on keeping people connected,

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Temporary

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  Entertainment Providers

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