Account Director

ThePlaceToBe; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

ThePlaceToBe in Nottingham partners with a brilliant experiential marketing agency to create standout activations, events and brand experiences for well-known brands. They emphasise collaboration, creativity and long-term client relationships, with a friendly, supportive culture guiding every project.

As an Account Director, you’ll translate briefs into strategic experiential campaigns, develop proposals and budgets, and work closely with delivery teams to bring ideas to life for health and

Qualifications

• Experienced Account Director with a strong background in experiential marketing.
• Experience working with health and beauty brands is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop relationships with key clients, particularly within health and beauty sectors.
• Take briefs and translate them into engaging experiential concepts and brand experiences.
• Develop creative proposals, costings and budgets to bring ideas to life.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure campaigns are planned and delivered effectively.
• Work with internal teams to develop innovative ideas that meet client objectives.
• Build a strong understanding of clients’ brands, challenges and commercial objectives.

Skills

Experiential marketing

Account management

Client relationship

Budget development

Job description

ThePlaceToBe are partnering with a brilliant experiential marketing agency based in Nottingham, working with some seriously well known brands to create standout activations, events and brand experiences. They’re known for developing big, creative ideas that bring brands to life, alongside building trusted, long term relationships with their clients. They’re also a genuinely lovely agency with a collaborative, supportive culture.

About the Role…

As an Account Director, you’ll lead key client relationships, with a particular focus on beauty brands, taking briefs and turning them into exciting, strategically considered experiential campaigns. You’ll be confident translating client briefs into creative concepts, developing proposals and budgets, and working closely with the wider delivery team to bring ideas to life.

• Leading and developing relationships with key clients, particularly within the health and beauty sector
• Taking client briefs and translating them into engaging experiential concepts and brand experiences
• Developing creative proposals, costings and budgets to bring ideas to life
• Working closely with the delivery team to ensure campaigns are effectively planned and delivered
• Collaborating with internal teams to develop innovative ideas that meet client objectives
• Building a strong understanding of clients’ brands, challenges and commercial objectives

About You…

You’ll be an experienced Account Director with a strong background in experiential marketing. Experience working with health and beauty brands is essential. You’ll understand the sector, know what makes brands stand out and be confident bringing fresh thinking and ideas to the table.

• Experience across events, activations, experiential campaigns and brand experiences
• The ability to take a brief, develop the concept and build out proposals, quotes and budgets
• Experience working closely with delivery and production teams to bring campaigns to life
• A strong commercial mindset, with the ability to identify opportunities for account growth
• Excellent client relationship management and communication skills
• A proactive, creative and collaborative approach
• The confidence to challenge briefs, offer fresh thinking and add genuine value to clients