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Account Director - Integrated Marketing Agency - Soho, London (Onsite)
Are you an exceptional hands-on Freelance Account Director, who loves getting their teeth stuck into a variety of through the line marketing campaigns?
Are you confident in working alongside senior stakeholders both internally and across a broad mix of clients/brands?
Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced and varied role, managing multiple client projects, delivering a huge variety of campaigns from shopper, OOH, Digital, Social, TV and more?
I am seeking an established freelance account director who can start before 1st December.
The role will join a small, agile agency, where priorities shift day to day and everyone pitches in.
You'll have the autonomy to run your projects day to day, while working closely with the agency founders, Managing Director and alongside the wider agency team. If you want to be the superstar who collaborates, flexes where the business needs it and owns the outcome, you'll thrive here.
What you’ll be doing?
Working with the team internally and our agency partners, the role will cover many exciting pillars:
You’ll be a trusted client lead
* Act as the day-to-day lead and senior contact for your clients, building strong, credible relationships
* Understand client businesses, goals and challenges, and turn them into clear briefs and smart recommendations
* Present work, ideas and updates with confidence, and handle feedback and tricky conversations with calm and tact
You’ll own your projects, end to end
* Run your projects from brief through to delivery and review.
* Manage scope, timelines, budgets and resource, flagging risks early and proposing solutions rather than just problems
* Keep strategy, creative and production teams aligned, motivated and clear on what great looks like
* Maintain high standards of quality, making sure work is on brief, on time and on budget
You’ll bring full-funnel thinking and a creative eye
* Bring a full-funnel perspective to every project, connecting brand and awareness work through to consideration, conversion and retention
* Shape and steer strategy, creative and production, with the confidence to brief, challenge and elevate the work at every stage
* Use your creative eye to judge what will make ideas land, and help the team get there
* Work shoulder to shoulder with creative, strategy and production colleagues as an active collaborator, not just a briefer
You’ll add value across the agency
* Work closely with the founders and MD, contributing to commercial thinking, new business and agency growth
* Flex across the business when priorities shift, whether that's supporting another account, stepping into a new opportunity or plugging a gap.
* Help improve how we work, and bring the wider team along with you by sharing knowledge and giving clear, constructive direction
What we are looking for in you
* Strong experience as an Account Director in an advertising, creative, or integrated agency
* Proven full-funnel experience, from awareness and brand building through to conversion and retention
* Credible depth across all agency disciplines, including strategy, creative and production
* A strong creative eye, with good instincts for what makes ideas land
* A track record of managing multiple projects and clients at once
* Senior, client-facing experience across a mix of project and retained work.
* Self-motivated, comfortable with autonomy, and happy to roll your sleeves up
* Commercially minded, with a good grasp of scoping and resource management
* Excellent communication and presentation skills, and calm under pressure
* Adaptable and agile, happy to turn your hand to different clients and challenges in a small agency where priorities shift day to day
If you have these, bonus points!
* Small to mid-sized agency experience is a big plus
* Experience across a mix of channels, such as brand, digital, social, content, production or experiential
* Experience contributing to pitches and new business
_We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds._