This job has expired, please see additional jobs below
Account Director
Dentsu Aegis Network
London, , United Kingdom
Job Details - this job has expired, please see similar jobs below
Job Introduction
We’re looking for a talented Account Director to join the team! You will be responsible for leading and motivating your own Story Lab team and will be accountable for the accuracy and quality of your team’s output. Your experience and drive to innovate will empower those around you will establish strong, valuable relationships with senior clients and stakeholders.
Our Account Director will keep a close eye on all team targets throughout the year and will formulating the appropriate response depending on results. Your behaviour is guided by your deep understanding about our business and long-term strategy and you’ll be able to influence at all levels across the network. You’ll constitute an essential layer in the running of the department and will command control over wider areas of Story Lab activity.
Role Responsibility
-Responsible for 100% accuracy with payment schedules, bookings, billings and tracking.
• Accountable for ensuring team status is fully up-to-date as a real time document and having 100% confidence in its accuracy.
• Draws on client familiarity and knowledge of landscape, as well as understanding of long-term plans and business needs to set considered targets for the next calendar year.
• Regular reviews of position of each client in relation to targets with swift measures in place to take action promptly and pre-emptively where needed.
• Direct line management of team Senior Managers and Managers, with focus on coaching.
• Real time overview of workloads across team with proactive approach to supporting other teams and being dynamic with resource.
• Ownership of client development plans, with overall responsibility for fulfilling all of them across the year.
The Ideal Candidate
-Relevant experience leading a team in a fast-paced agency environment
-Expertise with MS Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint and MS Outlook
-High degree of numeracy and literacy
• Has a strong pitch track record
-A source of team spirit
Package Description
We offer everything you would expect a global corporation to provide including competitive pension plans, income protection, life assurance, critical illness cover and season ticket loan. We are committed to creating a great environment for all of our employees. As well as the little perks such as team days out, kitchens stocked with free fruit, teas and coffee in the office, we strongly support a work-life balance and encourage agile working across the business. Our working parents are eligible for up to 20 weeks paid leave, including dads and co-parents and we also offer lifestyle benefits such as corporate-rate gym membership, childcare vouchers and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) days to use working for charitable causes each year. You always get your birthday off and we have a great holiday allowance scheme allowing you to buy or sell holiday too!
About the Company
The Story Lab is the global content division of the Dentsu Aegis Network. Working with brands across the group, we create powerful content solutions that help brands tell their story, gain cultural traction and drive true business value.
The Story Lab was launched to help brands reach and deepen their connections with consumers in a world where the points of connection, engagement and transaction are converging around content. Being at the heart of a media network means that we can marry the art of great story telling with the science of consumer behaviour and media convergence. The Story Lab empowers brands to meaningfully break through today’s competitive media landscape and move beyond the category and into the culture.
The team is comprised of 46 people with multi-disciplinary talent that includes content & media partnership specialists who create, curate, negotiate and manage integrated solutions for brands with content across all consumer touch points.
About Dentsu Aegis Network
Dentsu Aegis Network is Innovating the Way Brands are Built for its clients through its best-in-class expertise and capabilities in media, digital and creative communications services.With consumers more connected, through a range of devices, than ever before, the era of media convergence is presenting many opportunities as well as a new, complex media eco-system. From identifying who the consumers are, to how they make their decisions.
Dentsu Aegis Network is made up of nine global network brands - Carat, Dentsu, Dentsu media, iProspect, Isobar, mcgarrybowen, MKTG, Posterscope and Vizeum and supported by its specialist/multi-market brands. Dentsu Aegis Network is Innovating the Way Brands Are Built for its clients through its best-in-class expertise and capabilities in media, digital and creative communications services. Offering a distinctive and innovative range of products and services, Dentsu Aegis Network is headquartered in London and operates in 145 countries worldwide with over 30,000 dedicated specialists.
We value the strength diversity brings to our business and are working hard to build a more inclusive workplace through partnerships with Stonewall, Business Disability Forum and Business in the Community’s race and gender equality campaigns. We are happy to discuss all flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles – we can’t promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly.
If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with the recruiter who contacts you.