Account Director
North Devon
Competitive Salary
Ref: SM1359
A great opportunity has arisen for an Account Director to join a successful independent full-service creative marketing agency based in their office in North Devon.
You’ll be responsible for your own portfolio of accounts, as well as helping to prepare responses to newbusiness opportunities as required. You’ll be helping to ensure that both internal and external teams are working to deliver against the brief, on time and on budget. Some of this will entail planning and buying offlinemedia, either directly or through a partner agency.
As an Account Director, you will become an integral part of the client services team; managing every live project for a set of clients with the support of an Account Manager and Account Executive.
Responsibilities:
- Building and maintaining strong Client relationships.
- Providing team support across the business to ensure deliverables are met.
- Ensure all elements of SLAs are delivered effectively.
- Monitoring internal project deadlines and budgets, identifying and communicating potential changes that may be required.
- Becoming the go-to 'expert' within your team on a pre-agreed area of your day-to-day work - e.g. 'expert in social media aimed at students'.
- All your Client's live projects - ensuring that all deadlines are met, on budget, without compromising on quality or creativity.
- Keeping the MD informed of any key developments, asking advice and drawing on them where required.
- Effectively briefing and liaising with internal departments.
- Taking briefs from the Client, asking the right questions and writing good creative briefs.
- Monitoring client finances and accurately updating the flash and actuals sheets in line with reporting timings.
- Looking for proactive opportunities and driving additional projects/items to sell to a client.
- Presenting and selling work to clients.
- Ensuring the profitability and growth of client accounts.
- Maintaining a detailed awareness of relevant market trends affecting your accounts, and developments in the wider advertising and communications industry.
To apply for this job please drop me a line, quoting Ref: SM1359, together with your CV to: