Account Director (Creative)

JR United Kingdom; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an Account Director (Creative) to lead advertising campaigns. The role involves collaborating with various teams to ensure project success, managing deliverables, and developing client relationships. Ideal for individuals experienced in campaign management and integrated communications.

Qualifications

• Experienced in managing multiple projects end-to-end.
• Ability to understand and contribute to brand growth.
• Experience with integrated 360 campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end process of campaign delivery.
• Manage client communications and presentations.
• Coordinate resources and budgets with internal teams.

Skills

Strong campaign management skills

Relationship-building skills

Excellent written and verbal communication

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 each team contributes effectively 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 and 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, both internally and externally
• Financial acumen with rigorous oversight of the account's day-to-day operations
• Experience working in fast-changing environments, managing multi-stakeholder marketing teams with varying seniority, including pan-market experience being beneficial

Day-to-day responsibilities

• Write status reports and verify work against briefs
• Agree on the brief with marketing to ensure clarity and stakeholder involvement upfront
• Organize internal briefing sessions, collaborating 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 at all project stages, gather feedback, and define next steps
• Oversee end-to-end campaign delivery from brief to completion
• Monitor project progression with Production and Creative teams to ensure timeliness, budget adherence, and brief compliance
• Escalate key issues and blockers to senior leadership as necessary and facilitate issue resolution involving relevant stakeholders
• Maintain financial rigor, supporting the SAD 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 teams
• Manage relationships with third-party vendors such as Mediacom, production companies, and studios to ensure effective collaboration