Senior Account Director, Live Events & Experiential

air-recruitment.com; Maidenhead; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Air Recruitment is seeking an experienced Account Director to lead key client relationships for an independent events and experiential agency. You will drive growth by identifying opportunities within live events, brand experiences and major accounts, while overseeing multiple programmes from brief to delivery.

You will have progressed from hands-on event delivery to senior account leadership, delivering strategic direction and ensuring commercial oversight across projects with senior clients.

Qualifications

• Experience in an events/experiential/brand experience agency.
• Hands-on event delivery before progressing into senior account leadership.
• Proven experience managing and developing significant client relationships.
• Track record of growing accounts and identifying commercial opportunities.
• Strong understanding of live event and experiential production and delivery.
• Experience managing budgets and maintaining commercial oversight.
• Excellent presentation, communication and relationship-building skills.

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

Events/experiential/brand experience

Job description

Air Recruitment is seeking an experienced Account Director to lead key client relationships for an independent events and experiential agency. You will drive growth by identifying opportunities within live events, brand experiences and major accounts, while overseeing multiple programmes from brief to delivery.

You will have progressed from hands-on event delivery to senior account leadership, delivering strategic direction and ensuring commercial oversight across projects with senior clients.