Account Director

New York City, NY (On-site)

$105K/yr – $145K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own client relationships and cross-functional delivery for complex media programs, turning client goals into coordinated agency actions and surfacing growth opportunities.

  • Own client partnerships and ensure alignment across internal teams to meet expectations.
  • Translate client objectives into actionable work streams, prioritizing timelines and quality control.
  • Surface industry headlines and client insights to shape POVs and internal solutions for growth.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support the Client Experience Lead by serving as a primary client contact, building and maintaining trusted relationships and advocating for client needs, through a management lens, to ensure client and agency expectations are consistently met.
  • Understand client business objectives and provide strategic guidance to align internal goals with client goals, identifying opportunities to add value.
  • Demonstrates an ability to be a strategic connector with pattern recognition skills; able to connect the dots across client needs and/or inputs, team outputs, and agency resources, to proactively identify potential opportunities or roadblocks to build solutions or for growth potential.
  • Ensure internal teams are up to date on client priorities and how this impacts the work we are doing; work with Client Experience leads to determine where we need to shift support as needed. Ensures internal teams are aligned and collectively coordinated to deliver against client and agency needs.
  • Manage high-volume, complex media projects collectively.
  • Proactively support and manage timelines across campaigns/ SLAs to prioritize and ensure quality control
  • Collaborate across teams to deliver multiple media and media technology projects on time and within scope.
  • Facilitate cross-functional integration between Media, Creative, and client teams.
  • Proactively stay close to headlines (industry and client related) and coordinating across teams to ensure POVs are being developed, or competitive intel is being shared
  • Ensure they are active in client meetings and helping to identify if clients are sharing new insights or challenges that Havas has an internal solution or group that could help support

Preferred

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    Havas Media Network

    Havas Media Network is the media experience agency. Havas Media Network delivers this brand promise through the Mx System, where meaningful media helps build more meaningful brands. Havas Media Network is part of Havas, one of the world’s largest integrated content, media and communications groups. Havas Media Network also consists of two global media networks: Havas Media and Arena Media. The media experience agencies are home to specialists across 150 countries worldwide, with 73 Villages. Clients include BBC, Canal+, Credit Agricole, Dolce & Gabbana, EDF, Fidelity Investments, Grupo Carso, Hyundai, JDE, Kia, Leroy Merlin, Lidl, PNC Bank, Puma, Reckitt Benckiser, Red Bull, Sanofi, Shell, Telefonica, YUM Brands, among many others.

    Founded in 1990
    New York, NY, US
    6.5K employees (68 in marketing)

    Headcount Trend

    Current headcount: ~243

    Marketing Team

    Marketing Team Size
    64 (26% of company)
    Median Career Experience
    10 years
    Median Tenure
    4.6 years
    Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
    4

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