Group Account Director

• Manage the team to maximise individuals’ growth and harness the strengths and opportunities of each team member, scheduling regular 1-2-1’s
• Assist in yearly and half-yearly people reviews
• Work with the sales team to develop the client relationship and utilise key delivery strategy in order to optimise each key client relationship
• Ensure the team develops a strong and constructive relationship with the client based on honesty and trust
• Ensure the team manages the client’s expectations regarding deliverables
• pre-empt and resolve issues early
• Ensure the team are managing all aspects of the client's campaign and providing industry-leading service while maximising business opportunities
• Ensure creation and maintenance of project timing plans by team, ensuring they are adhered to by all involved
• Provide clear project management support in terms of workflow, timings and objectives guidance
• Lead team campaign delivery meetings internally
• Embrace the use of tools such as Monday.com
• Ensure timely, accurate and detailed financial admin by team
• Ensure a well-organised system of campaigns that appropriately tracks the volume of work
• Ensure margin is approved on all campaigns and is tracked monthly
• Ensure financial targets are clear and understood
• Responsible for meeting business KPI’s and development of business plans
• Proactively keep abreast of industry trends and share knowledge with the team, including social platform knowledge
• Champion you and your team’s work
• Capture learnings, provide solutions and offer recommendations
• Undertake other tasks including general administrative duties as may be required
• Demonstrate positivity, energy and enthusiasm for all aspects of the role

• Ideally, you’d be a Senior Account Director or Group Account Director with proven experience line managing a team and driving innovative solutions-first thinking
• Be skilled and experienced in a social-first environment
• Fully understand workflow processes for branded content campaigns and be able to allocate projects according to skill and project requirements
• Full lifecycle campaign experience managing video content and social media campaigns for big advertisers, from ideation to reporting and everything in between
• Senior stakeholder management experience with the ability to work across multiple departments
• Passionate about youth culture and savvy about the advertising and media industry
• Excellent analytical, organisational and leadership skills and experience, able to extract the best from your team

Knowledge and previous experience of legal media contracts (SOW) and the sign-off process is beneficial