Account Director (Creative)

JR United Kingdom; Derby; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks an Account Director responsible for planning and implementing advertising and communications campaigns. The role involves collaborating with various teams to ensure successful campaign delivery and managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience managing integrated 360 campaigns.
• Ability to manage multiple projects end-to-end.
• Strong written and verbal presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end campaign delivery from brief to completion.
• Manage client communications and project status reports.
• Coordinate resources, project plans, and budgets.

Skills

Campaign management

Relationship building

Financial acumen

Excellent communication

Job description

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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 its contribution 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, and motivating team members.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, confident in presenting to stakeholders at all levels, both internally and externally.
• Financial acumen and rigor in the day-to-day management of the account.
• Experience working in fast-changing environments, managing multi-stakeholder marketing teams with varying seniority levels. Pan-market experience is beneficial.

Day-to-day responsibilities

• Write status reports and check work against briefs.
• Agree on the brief with marketing to ensure clarity and stakeholder involvement upfront.
• 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 world-class creative work.
• Coordinate resources, project plans, and budgets with resource and production teams to deliver the brief.
• Manage client communications regarding project progress, issue resolution, contact reports, status meetings, and expectation management.
• Lead client presentations for creative work across all project stages, gather feedback, and summarize next steps.
• Oversee end-to-end campaign delivery from brief to completion.
• Maintain an overview of project progression, working with Production and Creative teams to ensure timely, budget-compliant, and brief-aligned delivery.
• Escalate key issues and blockers to Senior Account Director and Head of Business as required, facilitating resolution involving relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure financial rigor, supporting the Senior Account Director in preparing monthly burn reports, tracking retainer and production budgets, and assessing new briefs' feasibility.
• Collaborate with marketing to plan upcoming projects, communicate priorities, delays, and issues to internal stakeholders.
• Build and maintain relationships with media partners, production companies, and studios to ensure effective collaboration.