Account Director

Overview

We are seeking an experienced and client-focused Account Director to lead and inspire media initiatives for a major automotive client across European markets. In this role, you will be the trusted advisor to the client, responsible for building a long-term partnership, driving innovation, and ensuring excellence in execution across every market. You will serve as the point of contact, aligning the client’s ambitions with our expertise, delivering seamless coordination across regions, and creating measurable impact for their business.

This is a rare opportunity to join at an early stage of a new client team and play a central role in shaping the future of our partnership. You will help define best practices, introduce new standards, and establish the foundation for sustainable regional growth and long-term success.

Responsibilities

• Act as the key point of contact across multiple European markets, ensuring delivery of consistent, high-quality work aligned with client objectives.
• Develop and oversee integrated media strategies that deliver measurable business results and support the client’s broader goals.
• Collaborate with internal specialists—across strategy, planning, data, media buying, and analytics—to deliver innovative, market-leading campaigns.
• Lead strategic planning sessions, business reviews, and performance reporting with senior client stakeholders.
• Lead change management initiatives to drive the adoption of new processes and ways of working, both within the internal team and on the client side.
• Identify opportunities for growth within the existing partnership, including new initiatives, expanded market activations, and innovation pilots.
• Balance cultural and market-specific requirements with the need for global consistency, ensuring relevance at both the local and regional level.
• Serve as a trusted partner, continuously strengthening senior-level relationships within the client organization.

What You’ll Bring

• Around 5-7 years of experience in media, advertising, or communications, with proven expertise in leading complex client relationships.
• Strong track record in managing multi-market campaigns and guiding cross-functional teams, ideally within the automotive or related industries.
• Deep understanding of both offline and digital media, audience insights, and performance measurement.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and inspire confidence.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to oversee multiple large-scale initiatives and deliver results on time and within budget.
• Experience managing budgets and project-level P&Ls.
• Fluency in German and English.
• Willingness to travel across Europe as needed to maintain close alignment with local teams and the client.

Working with us

Joining dentsu international, you’ll join a team of 46,000 people. It’s an opportunity to produce career-defining work. Along the way, you’ll team up with inspiring colleagues and encounter a richness of clients, cultures and experiences. We offer exciting challenges, memorable experiences and opportunities to shape your future.

Inclusion and Diversity

We’re proud to be different and that starts with our people. We believe in equal opportunities for everyone. We won’t define people by their race, gender, sexual-orientation, age or disability. Individuality is what makes us great, we want everyone to bring their full self to work and create something amazing. That’s what we care about. So, whether you’re joining us, or looking to move to a different part of the business, we work hard to make sure we create equal opportunities for everyone.

Our 8 ways

We are dentsu. As champions for meaningful progress, we help our clients to win, keep and grow their best customers with best-in-class services and solutions in media, CXM, and creative. With more than 46,000 dedicated specialists teaming across 145 markets, our ‘8 ways’ shape and guide the way we do things here, so that, together, we can achieve the ‘never before’ for our clients, for society and for each other.

• We dream loud.
• We inspire change.
• We team without limits.
• We all lead.
• We make it real.
• We climb high.
• We choose excitement.
• We are a force for good.

Location

Munich - Leopoldstrasse 150

Brand

Global Iprospect

Time Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Sales and Business Development

Industries

• Advertising Services

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