Account Director - Digital Agency - London

Description

Account Director who knows their social platforms to provide content and email strategy and delivery.

DNA Recruit are working with an award-winning established digital transformation agency who focus on unlocking incremental opportunity and enhancing marketing performance for its clients. Based in Richmond, our client consistently punch above their weight, and work with a wide range of well-known brands and names in hospitality, food and beverage, transport and more, and offer working patterns in the "new normal" (tbc) anticipating a hybrid model.


The Account Director joining must be a digital thinker who will help to build strong day to day relationships with the senior marketing team and ensure all work is delivered to the brief, on time and within budget as well as able to spot opportunities with client businesses for growth. From building strong relationships with clients to managing teams across content strategy, community management and performance marketing, this client-facing Account Director will have the day to day responsibility for managing the reboot and growth of this trade account's social strategy and footprint, think Facebook, YouTube and Twitter first, LinkedIn second and with other clients being added to the portfolio later depending on your experience.

Responsibilities

• Build strong day to day relationships with senior marketing team.
• Own client briefs - create, translate and manage work throughout the agency - ensuring the final output is one of excellence
• Lead existing projects
• Keep clients satisfied, engaged and listened-to
• Deliver against projected revenue and increase revenue through cross-selling and up-selling agency expertise across your client base
• Ensure all work is delivered to the brief, on time and within budget
• Contribute to new business efforts
• While there's no direct report initially, 'making Positive things happen' with the project team will be a key KPI

Is this you?

Our client is looking for a digital thinking Account Director who has 4+ years' previous digital agency experience and at least 2+ years at Account Director level with specialism in activating social and digital campaigns for large global brands, in either the B2C or B2B space. You must be a confident, capable account handler and articulate communicator, with a thirst for digital innovation combined with a powerful personal drive to deliver project excellence. The skills and experience we are looking for are:

• Good track record in account management with some decent relevant social and direct campaign experience.
• Smart and solid understanding of social.
• Excellent people and relationship building skills to enable to work closely with different departments across the agency.
• Experience of working with multi-function teams across SEO, Creative, Paid Search
• Driven and passionate to get stuck in with every project.
• Well organised and take great pride in attention to detail.
• A curious, creative marketer who gets a buzz out of driving business results without sacrificing creativity.

Salary: £55K plus bonus and excellent benefits

Please note you must have the right to work in the UK for your application to be considered

This is a great opportunity for an Account Director to join a well-established independent global agency who provide an excellent place to work with very talented and skilled experts in their field. If you are interested then please send Ali your CV via the "link" to be considered. Ali can then get in touch with you should your skills and experience be what our client is looking for.

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