Digital Account Director

Account Director

Salary: £45,000-55,000
Location: Leeds – 2 days a week

Great with clients? Commercially sharp? Know your way around performance marketing and how the different channels work together?

We’re working with a performance marketing agency looking for an experienced Account Director to take ownership of a portfolio of complex, multi-channel clients.

This is a proper senior client leadership role. You’ll be the person clients trust to challenge their thinking, solve problems and spot opportunities, while making sure the accounts are commercially healthy and the team underneath you is delivering brilliant work.

What you’ll do

• Own senior client relationships, from day-to-day stakeholders through to C-suite
• Become a genuine strategic partner to your clients, understanding their wider business challenges rather than simply responding to briefs
• Lead conversations around performance marketing, channel planning and how digital can drive short and long-term growth
• Challenge and interrogate briefs, shaping the strategic direction before they reach the wider team
• Lead multi-channel presentations, strategic responses and pitches alongside the agency’s Strategy team
• Take commercial ownership of your accounts, including forecasting, profitability, renewals and statements of work
• Identify opportunities to grow existing clients through new work, additional services and wider agency capabilities
• Lead and develop the client services team around you, giving people ownership while maintaining overall control of the account
• Step into the difficult conversations when needed, whether that’s around performance, scope, commercials or client relationships
• Play an active role in new business pitches and building relationships with prospective clients

What you’ll bring

You’ll be a senior agency-side client services person who is comfortable operating at Account Director level and taking real ownership of your accounts.

You’ll also have:

• Strong knowledge of performance marketing and how different channels contribute to overall growth
• The confidence to advise and challenge senior client stakeholders
• Strong commercial nous, including forecasting, profitability and negotiating scope and fees
• Experience managing and developing teams
• A track record of growing existing client relationships and spotting new opportunitiesExperience leading complex, multi-channel pitches and strategic client responses
• The ability to keep your head when things get tricky and build trust internally as well as externally

Most importantly, you’ll be someone clients see as a trusted partner rather than simply their agency contact.

Why join?

It’s an opportunity to take genuine ownership of significant client relationships, influence their wider marketing strategy and play a big part in both client and agency growth.

You’ll have a strong team around you, access to specialists across multiple disciplines and the freedom to challenge how things have always been done.

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