Account Director- Luxury Global Client

Hogarth Worldwide Ltd; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global content experience company seeks an Integrated Creative Account Director to lead creative production projects and manage key client relationships. The role demands experience in creative strategy, expertise in client management, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Candidates should have a degree in Communications or related fields, with a preference for those with strong sporting and retail backgrounds.

Qualifications

• Strong experience leading creative presentations to clients.
• Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Ability to juggle multiple creative production projects in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage team and account relationships to ensure project success.
• Lead creative presentations and training for the team.
• Handle financial oversight and project profitability.

Skills

Client Management

Creative Production

Project Management

Attention to Detail

Education

Degree in Communications, Creative Design or Marketing

Job description

Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world’s top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging. The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions. Our global team of over 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today’s content experience.

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 100,000 talented people dedicated to doing extraordinary work for our clients. We operate in over 100 countries, with corporate headquarters in New York, London and Singapore. WPP is a world leader in marketing services, with deep AI, data and technology capabilities, global presence and unrivalled creative talent. Our clients include many of the biggest companies and advertisers in the world, including approximately 300 of the Fortune Global 500.Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow.

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

Whatdoesan Integrated Creative Account DirectordoatHogarth?

This is a unique, hybrid role at the Workshop, a Creative team within Hogarth Worldwide.

As an Integrated Account Director, you are an ambitious leader and a proactive member of the Creative Production team as well as being a key interface between the Workshop and our clients. The client is a global premiere luxury brand.

You are passionate about the creative and enjoy working hand in hand with the creative team being a key stakeholder in the creative development process.

You strive in a fast-paced environment where you wear multiple hats and enjoy working with many different teams and external stakeholders to make your projects a success.

You are strong in client management and on top of the timely delivery of creative production and deployment projects (across multiple formats), ensuring all work is of the highest quality. You build strong relationships with your team and clients; you act as a trusted member to help your team achieve the best possible work and service we pride ourselves for.

Reporting lines and key stakeholders

This role reports to the Workshop Business Director. You will work closely with the Account teams, Creative teams, Digital/Print/Moving Image Production teams and Deployment teams.

Responsibilities

• Strong Creative, Production, Account and Commercial experience gained at a creative agency
• Creative thinking is your passion and production is your second nature
• Experience leading creative deployment / localisation advertising projects across markets based on global creative campaigns
• Being a brand guardian and ensuring brand/campaign consistency when localising assets
• Strong production knowledge across moving image, OOH, print and digital with the ability to wear the ‘producer/PM’ hat and have a foot in these teams when necessary
• Experience managing people, training them around best practice and leading by example with your daily goal being making teamwork a success and growing a strong team health
• Years of experience leading creative presentations to clients and being a champion for the creative team
• An operational leader with a logical approach to client and account management
• Track challenges and successes of account in all aspects and proactively comes with learnings and implements efficiencies (ie post project reviews)
• Proactively sets out opportunities for the account and creates proposals
• Strong experience in juggling multiple creative production and localisation projects at once and feel confident in fast-paced, ever-changing environment while exhibiting an exceptional level of professionalism.
• Highly ambitious nature with a strong drive to progress and succeed, both as a team and as an individual
• Exceptional attention to detail, highly organised and resourceful, and proven experience performing output quality control
• Manages all things finance related with the support of line reports (working with management to set up the targets and forecast, monitors all projects costs and profitability)
• French language is a plus
• Degree in Communications, Creative Design or Marketing is preferable

Requirements

• Ideally the individual is very much into sports and Retail experience
• This would suit an experience Senior Account Manager or a Jr Account Director looking to explore the Production world
• French (nice to have)

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