Account Director, Europe (11 Month Maternity Cover)

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and nurture multi-market client relationships while shaping strategy, processes, and cross-team collaboration to grow client impact and protect partnerships.

  • Client leadership: act as the day-to-day lead, guiding strategic decisions and proactive growth opportunities.
  • Internal alignment: define and optimize cross-functional processes with the Client Partner and Head of Client Services.
  • Market intelligence: provide ongoing industry and marketplace insights to inform client decisions.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Demonstrate a strong understanding of your clients’ business goals beyond project objectives
  • Forge strong relationships with day-to-day clients, placing yourself as the Account Lead for any day to day queries and problems
  • Look for opportunities for growth on your account, as well as proactive opportunities
  • Work with the Client Partner to define team processes both internal and external
  • Support Account Managers and wider agency teams with client meetings, ensuring to lead larger strategic meetings and status updates
  • Review and provide feedback on all pieces of work, including social strategy, insight reports, creative concepts and final assets
  • Alert Head of Client Services, Europe to any risk to the client relationship, and proactively works with them and other team leads to resolve
  • Provide your clients and your wider team with ongoing marketplace knowledge, and changes within your client and industry
  • Advocate for the client internally, and keep the agency team informed, focused, and enthused about the work and the business
  • Strive to create business solutions for your clients through strategic guidance

Requirements

  • Outstanding client relationship skills
  • A can do approach, with the ability to work closely with junior members of the team to create top quality work
  • Excellent organisational and time management skills and ability to juggle several tasks at once
  • Excellent communication skills - confident communicating with stakeholders at different seniority levels
  • Can demonstrate strong collaboration skills with internal teams
  • Competent in using PowerPoint and full Google Suite of Apps
  • A confident and driven individual
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, and the ability to effectively communicate information in written and verbal format
  • Proven & extensive experience in client services as an Account Director
  • Experience working for multi-market clients preferred, but not required

Preferred

  • Experience working for multi-market clients preferred, but not required

Benefits

  • 🏠 Remote/Flexible working (occasional travel)
  • 🏖️ 33 days of holiday (including the bank holidays)
  • 🎂 Birthday off
  • ✨ Annual Occasion Day off for an important event (eg moving house, getting married)
  • ❤️ 1 Volunteer day off
  • 🌞 Flexible Fridays (Working half day)
  • 🤗 3 Well Being Days
  • 👓 Eye care: Contributions towards eye tests and glasses
  • 🏥 Enhanced sick pay: 4 weeks full pay, 4 weeks half pay
  • 👪 Enhanced family friendly policies

Social Element

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Founded in 2002
Remote, Oregon, USA
231 employees (116 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
663.4K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$48.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
44%
Direct
44.1%
Referral
8.6%
Social
2.4%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~231

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
109 (47% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$9.8M
Last Raise
Series A, 5 years ago