Senior Account Director - Shopper & Experiential

air-recruitment.com; Maidenhead; Hybrid; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Hybrid working

Excellent career progression

Job summary

air-recruitment.com is recruiting an Account Director (Shopper & Experiential) for Maidenhead with hybrid working. Up to £70K, you will lead end-to-end shopper activation campaigns across grocery, FMCG and health & beauty, building senior client relationships and ensuring flawless delivery.

The role requires hands-on activation execution, strong budget management, and the ability to coordinate production, staffing, logistics and creative teams across fast-moving campaigns.

Qualifications

• Proven agency experience delivering shopper activation campaigns.
• Strong experience with grocery/FMCG and/or health & beauty brands.
• Hands-on experience delivering live activations in retail environments.
• Ability to translate briefs into operational delivery plans.
• Excellent client and senior stakeholder management.
• Strong commercial awareness with budgeting/profitability.
• Able to travel and hold a full UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of shopper activation, in-store experiential and live brand experiences.
• Build trusted relationships with senior clients, becoming their go-to partner across campaign delivery.
• Translate client briefs and creative concepts into robust operational delivery plans.
• Collaborate with production, staffing, field teams, suppliers, logistics and creative to bring campaigns to life.
• Oversee live activations, ensuring campaigns are delivered on brief, on time, on budget and to the highest standard.
• Manage campaign budgets, commercials, forecasting and profitability.
• Identify opportunities to grow existing client relationships and develop additional projects.
• Lead client presentations, proposals, status meetings and post-campaign reviews.
• Mentor and support Campaign Managers across the team.
• Successfully manage multiple fast-moving campaigns without compromising quality.

Skills

Shopper activation delivery

Experiential marketing

Grocery/FMCG experience

Health & beauty brands experience

Client relationship management

Budget management

Project leadership

Retail activation execution

Job description

air-recruitment.com is recruiting an Account Director (Shopper & Experiential) for Maidenhead with hybrid working. Up to £70K, you will lead end-to-end shopper activation campaigns across grocery, FMCG and health & beauty, building senior client relationships and ensuring flawless delivery.

The role requires hands-on activation execution, strong budget management, and the ability to coordinate production, staffing, logistics and creative teams across fast-moving campaigns.