Senior Account Director, Live Events & Experiential

air-recruitment.com; Bracknell; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

air-recruitment.com is seeking an experienced Account Director to lead key client relationships and drive growth within a successful independent events and experiential agency. You will oversee senior client relationships and guide major accounts across live events and brand experiences.

The role requires progression from hands-on delivery to senior account leadership, with credibility to manage complex programs, budgets, and forecasts while mentoring junior team members.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in senior account leadership within events, experiential or brand experiences.
• Strong track record of managing and growing key client relationships.
• Experience overseeing budgets, profitability and forecasts.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own and develop relationships with key senior clients
• Lead major accounts across live events, experiential and brand experiences
• Identify opportunities for organic account growth and additional revenue
• Develop a thorough understanding of clients’ businesses, objectives and challenges
• Lead responses to briefs, proposals, pitches and presentations
• Provide strategic direction while ensuring projects remain commercially and operationally sound
• Oversee multiple projects and programmes from brief through to live delivery
• Work closely with project, creative, production and operational teams
• Maintain oversight of budgets, scopes, profitability and account forecasting
• Ensure consistently high standards of client service and delivery
• Support, mentor and develop more junior members of the team
• Contribute to the agency’s wider growth and development

Skills

Account leadership

Client relationships

Budget management

Team mentorship

Job description

air-recruitment.com is seeking an experienced Account Director to lead key client relationships and drive growth within a successful independent events and experiential agency. You will oversee senior client relationships and guide major accounts across live events and brand experiences.

The role requires progression from hands-on delivery to senior account leadership, with credibility to manage complex programs, budgets, and forecasts while mentoring junior team members.