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Senior Account Director

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VML (Wunderman Thompson)

VML (Wunderman Thompson)

London, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid
Posted April 23, 2026

Job Description

Who We Are

VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies. VML’s global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

We are The Pharm: an integrated, multi-specialty service and consulting model dedicated to a single, iconic client – Boots UK – with one shared mission: to help people across the UK lead healthier and happier lives. 

We bring together experts from across multiple WPP agencies and disciplines to grow a national treasure of a brand, and in doing so, grow ourselves – our skills, our perspectives, our creativity and our careers. 

The Role

We’re looking for a superstar throughtheline Senior Account Director to join our Brand Experience (BX) team, working on Boots. 

You will: 

  • Help lead large, complex, fully integrated campaigns across TV, social, DM, experiential, digital display, and ensure strong integration with in-store, .com, PR, media and content/publishing teams.
  • Be a key driver of the creative process, working closely with strategy, media, PR, creatives and in-house/fulfilment partners.
  • Act as a trusted senior partner to our Boots clients, providing clear, confident counsel across strategy, creative and delivery.
  • Be a role model and leader, nurturing your team and setting the standard for quality and calm, commercially-minded delivery.
  • You will support a Business Director and be seen by both clients and colleagues as a go-to leader for best-in-class, truly integrated, omnichannel work. 

 

Key Responsibilities 

Client Leadership & Relationships 

  • Build strong, trusting and collaborative relationships with senior Boots stakeholders, grounded in your expertise, integrity and commitment to doing the right thing for the brand. 
  • Create the conditions for open, honest dialogue with clients – challenging where needed and driving towards mutually beneficial solutions. 
  • Act as an integral part of the client’s extended team, with credible input on strategy, creative and execution. 

Strategic & Creative Leadership 

  • Partner with strategy, media, PR and creative teams to define the brief, not just answer it – ensuring all work ladders up to clear strategic objectives. 
  • Champion non-linear, throughtheline thinking that connects brand, retail and digital experience. 
  • Drive and protect outstanding creativity, ensuring ideas are robust, on brand, on brief and work across multiple channels. 

Campaign & Project Ownership 

  • Take ownership of key projects, including: 
  • Overall quality of output 
  • Commercial governance and performance 
  • Client satisfaction and relationship health 
  • Achievement of agreed results and KPIs 
  • Step forward to lead the team through issues – calmly, constructively and with clear solutions. 
  • Continually refine ways of working across internal teams and WPP partners to enhance efficiency, integration and consistency. 

Integration & Collaboration 

  • Work hand-in-hand with PR and Media teams to deliver through the line campaigns with coherent messaging and experience.gorustaidataproductmarketing