Group Account Director

Group Account Director

In this role, you'll report into the Managing Director and will provide strategic and tactical leadership across multi-million-dollar engagements, while keeping abreast of daily project activities. You're experienced with identifying clients' business needs, working with creative, in-house studio, and Consumer Connections (media) teams to understand, define, and build effective solutions that generate measurable results.

Ideal candidate will:

• Thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and be known as forward-thinking and solutions-oriented

• Have integrated advertising agency experience managing multiple portfolios of clients’ businesses

• Have a passion and genuine interest in multicultural marketing

• Have an ability to build trusting and respectful relationships with your clients and internal teams

• Be strategically minded with a strong ability to troubleshoot with clients and team members

• Instill confidence from all team members and clients that you can solve a business problem

• Demonstrate a driver personality and be highly organized

• Show the ability to lead a team, lead the client, and not just manage them

• Anticipate a client’s needs, not waiting for them to ask the question

Qualifications:

• 10–15 years of experience working in an agency environment with experience in both traditional (TV/radio/OOH) and digital

• Senior level enough to not just lead, but grow the business organically.

• Ability to build trusting and respectful relationships with clients and internal teams

• High level of understanding regarding insights and strategy

• Experience managing teams of 5+ individuals

• Ability to manage long-term, multi-million-dollar engagements with numerous stakeholders and projects

• Comfortable interacting with clients at various levels and industry backgrounds, from C-Suite to administrative support staff

• Strong ability to manage and set client expectations

Leadership

• Provide strong leadership and counsel to clients to help them identify issues and opportunities

• Lead integration across the entire integrated grid; drive cohesion and connection

• Together with EM’s executive team, hold the highest standards for the EM product

• Contribute to the vision, direction, and culture of EM via participation in the leadership team

Business Partnering

• Be seen by the client as a trusted partner truly vested in their success

• Maintain a deep and thorough understanding of the client’s business and category

Collaboration & Partnerships

• Build strong, trustful relationships with senior clients and work to establish wide client relationships across all EM team members

  Skills & Tags

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