Account Director

Havas Group; Manila; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Havas Ortega is seeking an Account Director to lead client relationships across multiple accounts, acting as the primary contact to the client’s senior marketing team and driving long-term growth. You will be responsible for budget ownership, profitability, and the overall success of the account team.

You will collaborate with strategy, creative, and media leads to deliver integrated solutions that meet client goals and elevate the agency’s performance and reputation.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership in client services and account management.
• Ability to develop growth strategies and manage budgets.
• Collaborative, strong partner with clients and agency teams.

Responsibilities

• Leads client relationships across accounts, ensuring growth and profitability.
• Serves as primary client contact with the client’s senior marketing team.
• Oversees service quality and profitability of assigned accounts.

Job description

Agency :

Havas Ortega

Job Description :

Responsible for leadership and overall management of the Client relationship one or multiple accounts. Primary contact to the Client’s senior marketing team. Drives long-term business growth targets and has accountability for the budget and planning. Typically reports Group Account Director.

Account Directors are responsible for overall service and profitability of assigned account(s).
Client Services:

• Brings smart thinking to the client while operating for agency growth and profitability.
• Maintains big picture view and thinks creatively to solve problems, especially when dealing withe complex marketing challenges.
• Works collaboratively and develops strong partnerships with clients, agency resources and account team.
• Delivers strong ideas, brilliant creative and flawless execution through the management of interdisciplinary team and with other team leads
• Takes appropriate risks with a relentless focus on results.
• Demonstrates passion for the agency, the work and the client’s business.
• Accountable for own actions, agency team performance and client results.
• Builds appropriate scopes of works to staff plans to drive and meet financial goals.
• Uses sound business acumen to develp sound strategies and fully integrated solutions.
• Understands and be able to sell-in strategic, creative and media implications for big ideas.
• Has the ability to author a high-level POV weaving in data, analysis and insight; and incorporating team content, thinking and perspective to clients.

Creative Advocacy:

• Creates an environment and atmosphere that encourages the pursuit of big ideas. Takes a leadership role in actively nurturing and contributing to the development of creative ideas.
• Guides the develompent of sell-in strategy in partnership with Strategy and Creative teams, pre-conditions the client, and protects the big idea once sold.

Management and Leadership:

• Establishes work ethic and quality of delivery expectations.
• Challenges and inspires the team while understanding and managing the teams strengths and weaknesses.
• Develops growth and development plans, monitor progress and provide timely feedback.
• Creates an environment and atmosphere that encourages the pursuit of big ideas
• Must be able to pull together the right people to solve the client’s marketing problems.

Contract Type :

Permanent

Here at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.