Account Director

Summary

Join our team as a Freelance Account Director to lead air traffic control, manage multiple accounts, and provide strategic leadership. As the catalyst for groundbreaking work, you will establish account priorities, communicate effectively, and ensure quality work from every department.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8-10 years experience managing multiple accounts at an advertising agency or similar
• Strong knowledge of the creative, production and media planning process to help navigate and educate clients
• Excellent ability of setting and managing expectations
• Ability to evaluate work with a strategic lens, providing clear, strategically grounded feedback and suggestions to internal teams

Responsibilities

• Establishes account priorities and communicates effectively to team
• Provides strategic leadership and road-map for the business
• Ensures quality work from every department
• Develops strong, motivated internal teams
• Works with finance to ensure his/her account is profitable
• Ensures that team members across all departments are involved, informed and working together during the entire strategic and creative development process
• Represents agency at development briefings
• Provides conflict resolution and solutions during conflicts both internally and externally; can be depended upon to maintain composure in turbulent waters
• Has a point of view: can articulate it and defend it
• Publishes written agency points-of-view regularly – monthly, quarterly
• Works with client and executive management to develop the client contract and Statement of Work
• Responsible for managing to client annual and quarterly budgets
• Works well with clients at every level of a client organization and can hold strategic discussion with the senior most clients
• Sets very clear metrics for success with client partners
• Has a strategic point of view and can articulate and defend it
• Knows clients business/industry completely from a strategic and competitive standpoint; knows business inside and out
• Is the central figure to client in building their business: recommending and delivering integrated communications solutions
• Listens to client; confirms understanding of what is said, and accurately communicates back to client what those needs are, in both oral and written form
• Organically continues to provide client with ideas to grow and develop business
• Develops supporting evidence for agency POVs and recommendations
• Is respected by all agency departments, inspires and encourages innovative thinking and solutions
• Fosters great teamwork and encourages open, ongoing communication
• Actively participates in internal management/training of agency personnel
• Provides leadership for the internal agency groups: fosters creative atmosphere
• Gives on-going feedback to group
• Champions the account within the agency
• Supervises efforts of direct reports
• Motivates the team; mentors and promotes career development and growth
• Ensures that Account Group members are challenged and developing their skills
• Demonstrates and teaches junior team members how to think strategically
• Holds regular cross functional team meetings to ensure everyone understands the current priorities on the business

Benefits

All benefits of a full time employee (vacation, benefits and so forth)