Account Director (Creative)

JR United Kingdom; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an Account Director responsible for planning and implementing advertising campaigns. The role involves collaborating with various teams and managing multiple projects to ensure successful delivery. The candidate should possess strong campaign management skills, excellent communication abilities, and financial acumen, thriving in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Strong campaign management skills, with experience managing multiple projects end to end.
• Ability to understand the strategic purpose of projects for brand growth.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, confident in stakeholder presentations.

Responsibilities

• Write status reports and verify work against briefs.
• Organize internal briefing sessions with marketing and strategy teams.
• Oversee end-to-end campaign delivery, ensuring budgets and timelines are met.

Skills

Campaign Management

Communication

Relationship Building

Financial Acumen

Job description

Job Title: Account Director (Creative)

Client Location: London (Hybrid)

Starting: 23/06/2025

Hours: Full-time

Duration: 9 months with potential to extend

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 collaborate with marketing, creative, production, strategy, finance, and external partners at each stage of a project, ensuring every team contributes to progressing different aspects from brief to delivery.

• Strong campaign management skills, experienced at managing multiple projects end to end
• Ability to understand the strategic purpose of a project and how it contributes to brand growth
• Experience with through-the-line communications, managing 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, motivating team members
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; confident in presenting to stakeholders at all levels internally and externally
• Financial acumen and rigorous management of the account's day-to-day operations
• Experience working in fast-changing environments, managing multi-stakeholder marketing teams with varying seniority levels; pan-market experience is a plus

Day-to-day responsibilities

• Write status reports and verify work against briefs
• Agree on the project brief with marketing to ensure clarity and stakeholder involvement
• Organize internal briefing sessions, including working with strategy to develop briefs for internal teams
• Partner with Creative Directors and Executive Producers to enable successful delivery of creative work
• Coordinate resources, project plans, and budgets with resource and production teams
• Manage client communications regarding project progress, issue resolution, and expectation management
• Lead client presentations across all project stages, incorporate feedback, and outline next steps
• Oversee end-to-end campaign delivery, from brief to completion
• Monitor project progress with production and creative teams to ensure timelines, budgets, and briefs are met
• Escalate issues and blockers to senior leadership as needed and facilitate resolution involving relevant stakeholders
• Maintain financial rigor, support reporting, and track budgets and briefs accurately for review
• Collaborate with marketing to plan future projects and communicate upcoming priorities and issues
• Manage relationships with media agencies and third-party vendors to ensure effective collaboration