Account Director (Creative)

JR United Kingdom; York; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks an Account Director to oversee and implement advertising campaigns, ensuring effective collaboration across teams. This role involves managing client communications, coordinating resources, and monitoring project progress. Ideal candidates will have excellent communication skills and extensive campaign management experience.

Qualifications

• Strong campaign management skills and experience managing multiple projects.
• Proficient in integrated 360 campaigns across various media.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Write status reports and manage project communications with clients.
• Organise internal briefing sessions and oversee end-to-end campaign delivery.
• Monitor project progression and collaborate with stakeholders.

Skills

Campaign Management

Communication Skills

Relationship Building

Financial Acumen

Project Management

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 each 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 in 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 teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; confident in presenting to stakeholders at all levels, internally and externally
• Financial acumen and rigor in managing the account daily
• Experience working in fast-changing environments, managing multi-stakeholder marketing teams with varying seniority; 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 for the agency and involved stakeholders
• Organise 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
• 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 outline next steps
• Oversee end-to-end campaign delivery from brief to completion
• Monitor project progression with Production and Creative teams to ensure timely, budget-compliant delivery meeting the original brief
• Escalate key issues and blockers to Senior Account Director and Head of Business as needed, facilitating resolution involving relevant stakeholders
• Maintain financial rigor, support Senior Account Director in monthly burn reporting, track retainer and production budgets, and assess capacity for new briefs
• Collaborate with marketing to plan ahead, update project timelines, and communicate upcoming priorities or issues to stakeholders
• Manage relationships with Mediacom and third-party vendors such as production companies and studios to ensure effective collaboration