Account Director

ADLIB; London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An independent Brand Strategy agency in London is seeking an ambitious Account Director to lead creative, branding, and marketing projects. The successful candidate will leverage their experience to build client relationships and manage strategic projects across sectors including FMCG. The agency offers a competitive salary, hybrid working conditions, and substantial career progression amidst a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Great benefits

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven track record as an Account Director or Senior Account Manager.
• Exceptional client relationship, account management, and project delivery skills.
• Ambitious with a growth mindset.

Responsibilities

• Deliver world-class brand, creative, and omnichannel marketing projects.
• Provide exceptional client services and relationship development.
• Help grow existing accounts and unlock bigger, upstream opportunities.

Skills

Client relationship management

Strategic counsel

Project delivery skills

Job description

We’re looking for an ambitious, experienced Account Director (or Senior Account Manager ready for their next big opportunity). You’ll join a long-established, independent Brand Strategy, Design, and Omnichannel Marketing agency entering an exciting new chapter of transformation and growth. With a major rebrand underway, they’re repositioning themselves as a forward-thinking, upstream strategic consultancy for some of the world’s biggest brands and boldest challengers.

From winning £1m+ pitches against global network agencies, to delivering standout work for household names across the UK, US, and India, they’re trusted to tackle complex business and brand challenges that shape markets and drive commercial success.

This award-winning Brand Strategy agency has many decades of heritage in the FMCG space, and in recent years has continually won high profile up-stream strategic projects across a range of B2B and B2C sectors including airlines, agriculture, finance, and pharma.

What you’ll be doing

The Account Director will bring existing Creative, Branding, Marketing agency experience and provide exceptional clients services, relationship development, strategic counsel (working with strategists), and help grow existing accounts – expanding on services and helping the agency unlock bigger, upstream and omnichannel opportunities. You’ll work with household name brand clients. Although an SME and independent agency, they are a “Glocal” agency (Global clients, local market knowledge, teams and expertise where their clients are based), with creative delivered from the London office, near Shoreditch.

The Account Director will deliver world-class brand, creative and omnichannel marketing projects for clients in the both the UK and India. Clients are varied and projects are career defining.

Apply now and do the best work of your career!

What experience you’ll need to apply

• Proven track record as an Account Director or Senior Account Manager.
• Previous experience in a Creative, Design, Brand Strategy or Integrated agency.
• Experience working with FMCG clients would be advantageous, in particular a drinks / spirits brand, but this is not essential.
• Exceptional client relationship, account management, and project delivery skills.
• Ambitious, brave, and looking to do the best work of your career – an entrepreneurial, growth mindset.

What you’ll get in return for your experience?

• A competitive salary in the region of £55k-£70k depending on experience + great benefits.
• Hybrid working, 2-3 days in the office in Shoreditch – a lovely building, great vibe, surrounded by talented people.
• Career progression in line with your ambitions – the sky is the limit for talented, ambitious people. There’s an exciting future ahead and opportunity for you to carve out your piece of it.

What’s next?

If you’re an ambitious Account Director with a Brand Strategy, Creative, Design, Marketing agency background and you feel excited by the above, we’d love to hear from you ASAP!