Group Account Director

Salary£55,000 - £60,000
LocationLondon and the South East
Date Posted26/02/2010
Job RefDNASH140
ConsultantSimon Harle

The Role

This global multi-disciplinary communications agency already employ over 150 employees in offices across the UK and USA. As a fully integrated agency they have successfully created campaigns for an endless list of big names across fashion, lifestyle and blue-chip brands, cleverly balancing brand equality and fame with commercial success. They're now on the look out for a Group Account Director to join their London office.

As Group Account Director within this fantastic agency, you'll be working across a minimum of 4 accounts leading each account team across all creative, strategic and analytical outputs.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Building and maintaining strong relationships with all senior clients.
  • Taking full accountability for your team's output on each account.
  • Managing the financial side of each account ensuring that client budgets are not exceeded whilst increasing the profitability of each account.
  • Strategically managing the agency's role within the client's integrated agency team, building strong collaborative relationships with ATL, Media, DM, Internal agencies.

The Candidate

The ideal candidate for this Group Account Director role will need to have proven experience in financial management, team management and successful multiple account management. This role will need to be taken on by someone who has a wealth of industry experience that will be used to not only continue to drive the agency forward, but also to inspire, motivate and develop more junior members of the agency. It's essential that you're both commercially and politically astute and that you're innovative in your ideas to achieve goals.

Ultimately, the successful Group Account Director will not only be enthusiastic about their work but excellent at what they do. This truly is a fantastic integrated agency to be a part of, so please submit your CV now to be immediately considered for this role.

Unfortunately due to the high number of applications that we receive, we are unable to respond to all of those who are unsuccessful.

The Salary

Up to £60K