Account Director

Sainsbury's; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Why join us

Joining Sainsbury's as an Account Director means being at the forefront of driving business growth and delivering exceptional client experiences. You'll play a pivotal role in leading client relationships, collaborating with internal stakeholders, and championing creativity as a catalyst for market change.

What you'll do

As the Account Director, you will play a crucial role in leading client relationships, driving business growth, and ensuring client satisfaction. You’ll have autonomy in your area of the business/brand, taking the lead on the zest stakeholder relationship, with a focus on the more complex strategic and creative projects. You will act as a business partner for our internal clients, developing a deep understanding of their market challenges, context, and business objectives. Your expertise in client partnership will involve fostering enduring and trustworthy relationships, proactively identifying opportunities for expansion, and serving as the first point of contact for client needs and requests. As a strategic partner, you will collaborate with Planners to develop and implement strategic responses for brand business and communication needs, and you’ll be very comfortable with reviewing and contributing to strategic proposals and creative concepts, ensuring our work aligns with the client brief and is best in class.

You will champion creativity, act as a creative advocate, and collaborate with project management and production to ensure seamless integration of work across multiple channels. You’ll be comfortable representing zest in collaborative meetings with external agency partners. As a leader, you will galvanise the team, nurture them through mentoring and coaching, and demonstrate behavioural flexibility, emotional intelligence, influence, and creative problem-solving skills. Your ability to make decisions on client leadership, strategy, SLAs frameworks, and external agency partnerships will drive the success of Sainsbury's.

Who you are

You will have proven experience at Account Director level, with an integrated channel background, although digital channel experience is essential. You’ll be able to hit the ground running from day one. You’ll be strategic, have a passion for great creative, build strong relationships quickly, and be an exceptional communicator. You’ll thrive in a fast-paced retail environment and be a solution-focused ‘can do’ person.

Qualifications

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

1. Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every payday.
2. We’ve got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover.
3. You may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.
4. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday.
5. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest-free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before payday) as well as access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers.
6. There is also an Employee Assistance Programme, and you will be eligible for private healthcare.
7. We give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. We’re one of the biggest supermarkets in the UK with one of the largest websites. So marketing here really happens at scale. We move a lot faster than you’d think too, across Brand Planning, Brand Comms and Creative, Digital Marketing, CRM and Loyalty, Nectar 360, Insights, and Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability. More people shopping with us each week means more interactions. And thanks to data insight, we understand customers in a way that almost nobody else does. We work alongside incredible brand partners and the best agencies around. So if you have a passion to learn, grow and experience new teams, come and explore it all with us.