Group Account Director

twentysix; Hilversum; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

twentysix is seeking a Group Account Director to act as the executive lead for significant client relationships in Hilversum, Netherlands. In this role, you will oversee a high-performing account and manage a cross-functional team, focusing on strategic growth and operational leadership. Candidates should have over 7 years of experience in client services, with a demonstrated ability to drive revenue while maintaining customer satisfaction.

Your responsibilities include owning client relationships, identifying new business opportunities, and effectively communicating with senior stakeholders. If you have strong analytical and negotiation skills and thrive in a fast-paced environment, we would love to hear from you.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in client services, project management or production roles.
• Proven track record of successfully managing client relationships and driving revenue growth.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.

Responsibilities

• Own the client relationship, including fiscal health and overall growth.
• Identify new opportunities within current client relationships.
• Develop robust communication plans and engagement strategies.

Skills

Client services

Project management

Digital marketing knowledge

Negotiation skills

Analytical skills

Job description

The Opportunity

As a Group Account Director, you will act as the executive lead for some of our most strategically important client relationships. This role sits at the intersection of enterprise client partnership, commercial growth, operational leadership, and creative production excellence. You’ll oversee a global high‑performing account with a regional creative production ecosystem, acting as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders in AUNZ, while driving innovation, margin growth, and long‑term value. You’ll lead a cross‑functional team that includes creative, production and operational talent, ensuring every facet of the relationship – from day‑to‑day delivery to long‑term transformation – is world‑class. You will be expected to set and execute a strategic growth agenda, penetrate new business units, and expand our footprint across business units, capabilities, and deliverables. Internally, you’ll serve as a senior operator, designing and evolving workflows, scaling AI‑powered efficiencies, and partnering with executive leadership to shape the future of how we deliver.

The Role

As a Group Account Director, you’ll maintain agency relationships in a fast‑paced, evolving environment. Nimbleness and collaboration are the name of the game. This is a role for a strategic and growth‑minded professional with the industry know‑how and rapport to simply get things done. If you’re an experienced go‑getter who just gets clients and seeks out new opportunities to create impactful work, you have hands‑on experience in brand, production, operations, and a solid understanding of large‑scale retained teams – this is for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the client relationship, including fiscal health and overall growth.
• Identify new opportunities within current client relationships, understand the full breadth of Monks’ capabilities and orchestrate compelling solutions for expansion and varying client needs.
• Manage and build strong senior stakeholder relationships; provide strategic guidance to deliver against the client’s business objectives, building trust, credibility and rapport with key POCs.
• Become a trusted partner, understanding clients’ business challenges and be able to articulate strategies to address those needs.
• Effectively consult on creative ideas and executions.
• Inspire larger creative strategies that can create further business outcomes and align closely with growth objectives of the client and The Monks business.
• Drive adoption of AI‑powered tools and platforms to unlock production speed, cost savings, and content personalization at scale.
• Gain and maintain knowledge of client’s business, industry and competition.
• Develop robust communication plans and engagement strategies, with an emphasis on strengthening key relationships and expanding stakeholder coverage across the organisation.
• Own the future‑state vision and strategic narrative associated with our partnership that underpins all workstreams and initiatives for cross‑functional teams to work towards.
• Ensure that business outcomes are clearly defined, approved and delivered with benefits realised and value realised and articulated at each step of the way.
• Drive discovery for new business opportunities and manage the end‑to‑end sales cycle, with an emphasis on pipeline generation, as well as cross‑sell and up‑sell tactics.
• Orchestrate our cross‑capability operating model through an understanding of all ongoing fulfillment projects to continually reinforce ROI and future roadmap initiatives.
• Lead key milestones and drive collaboration across capabilities for partnership‑led workstreams, including QBRs, top‑to‑tops and broader strategy & planning.
• Facilitate a uniform method for client experience across pillars, setting clear expectations with capabilities to reinforce exceptional client service standards.
• Manage feedback loops with clients, including facilitating 360‑degree feedback and recurring pulse checks for continuous improvement of partnership quality.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in client services, project management or production roles.
• Expertise in leading digital marketing briefs from initial brief to final delivery.
• Understanding of social as a channel, experience with social strategy, creators and types of social creative used as a growth‑driving channel for brands.
• Ability to translate marketing goals and business objectives into clear, actionable briefs for creative & production teams.
• Relationships and experience with third‑party vendors, production partners, creators who could be suitable to collaborate with.
• Deep understanding of the digital marketing & advertising ecosystem, and awareness of the latest AI‑driven disruption, emerging technologies and innovation.
• Proven track record of successfully managing client relationships, driving revenue growth while maintaining customer satisfaction.
• Commercial proficiency; owning project budgets, ensuring projects are delivered profitably and within scope; experience pricing/scoping detailed statements of work (SOWs).
• Ability to forecast agency resource needs and manage internal studio capacity effectively with support from producers.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, and ability to effectively communicate with a range of stakeholder types, from C‑suite through to specialists.
• Curiosity, self‑motivation and proactivity.
• Strong negotiation skills and proficiency in writing business cases.
• Ability to present effectively, and craft compelling proposals using Google Slides.
• Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment.
• Track record of effective program management and demonstrable commercial acumen.
• Strong analytical and consulting skills, rooted in the ability to draw and communicate insights from multiple data points.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience as an Executive Producer, looking to be more externally focused.
• Suitable for an Account Director or Senior Account Director who is not afraid to get hands‑on to support existing delivery structures; current/recent experience with production processes and workflows viewed highly.
• Strong grasp of the overall emerging digital space, including knowledge of Monks competitive set and our offerings across data, technology, content and digital media.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross‑functional teams and develop processes and workflows that increase revenue and value‑realisation for clients.
• Ambition to perform unprecedented tasks, obtain new skills, be comfortable with uncertainty and adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
• Strong data analysis capabilities, with an ability to unearth actionable insights using a range of platforms and tools.

About Monks

Monks is the global, digital‑first, data‑driven, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global Marketing and Technology Services to redefine how brands interact with the world. Through Monks.Flow, its flagship AI ecosystem for marketing orchestration, Monks transforms marketing into a growth engine, collapsing timelines and connecting brands to culture in real time. By deploying bespoke intelligent agents across disciplines and delivering culturally relevant, high‑impact creative and digital solutions, Monks solves key critical business challenges across the entire brand enterprise to help brands sustain long‑term impact. Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services, ranks among Cannes Lions’ Top 10 Creative Companies (2022‑25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020‑24). Named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization, Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2025 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in both the Organizational and AI Product categories. As a trusted partner to cutting‑edge innovators in tech, Monks earned titles such as Optimizely Experimentation Partner of the Year (2025), runner‑up for the Adobe Firefly Partner Award (2024), and Workato’s AI Visionary Customer Impact Award (2024). Additionally, Monks achieved a record‑breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.

We are an equal‑opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.