Group Account Director

Looking for a talented, experienced, dynamic, and forward-thinking individual to join our team as a Principal Consultant. You will play a pivotal role across the business as we scale and grow. You will be instrumental in the delivery of client work, building organic revenue, and hunting new business. You will also have the opportunity to drive and support on key service lines, cultural initiatives, internally and externally with key stakeholders, clients & partners. You will be pivotal to the culture, team well-being, delivery of key products & services & general atmosphere (virtual & face to face). The successful candidate will be a “doer” prepared to roll up their sleeves and tackle any opportunity, big or small.

We are a collaborative, supportive, pioneering, and high-performing global team who have a passion and purpose to support, inspire and transform the lives of marketeers. We help increase marketing effectiveness through better-integrated marketing, fixing, and fine-tuning our clients’ marketing resources.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Win, lead and service new marketing integration assignments from large complex multi-national clients (includes: developing proposals, briefs and cost estimates, managing deliverables and project team members (including freelancers).
• Lead and maintain your set organic and new business revenue growth target (annual).
• Responsible for project performance & margin, as well as the delivery and management of full-time staff and freelancers on your allocated projects, in line with the company's ways of working.
• Develop insight and Intellectual property that helps us understand and meet the needs of our clients (this may include qual and quant techniques).
• Demonstrate strong analytical skills, by taking raw data/facts and deliver them with clear, exciting client insights that have proven business applications.
• Help develop valuable products and services, in line with our business objectives and strategy.
• Make a positive contribution to the brand, business and culture of the company through an effective partnership with all team-members & freelancer network
• Work as part of the internal “Communications Team” to help promote the company by actively contributing to the creation and production of engaging sales and marketing literature and collateral
• Assist in updating and maintaining the database, when necessary, design and produce content for the company’s email campaigns.
• Reflective of your experience in all internal tools, products, and services, and ways of working, you proactively coach and mentor junior talent
• You serve as a role model to the team (internally) and a thought leader (externally), briefing in marketing and growth campaigns.

Essential Skills for the role include:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills with excellent ppt (formatting) and presentational skills
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills with a proven ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels.
• You are proactive, innovative, and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environments. You are self-motivated and ensure you take ownership of your work and deliver results consistently, within a complex matrix environment.
• Self-motivated, energetic with a solutions-focused mindset with the ability to build rapport quickly and positively influence the business and client delivery.
• Capacity to troubleshoot, formulate action strategies, and establish clarity from ambiguous data
• Possess high attention to detail and accuracy, time management and can effectively manage competing priorities, with patience and confidence.
• Commercial acumen and ability to sell and advocate the company products and ways of working.
• Impeccable project management and leadership skills, and a genuine passion for furthering one’s own technical expertise.
• Ability to work in matrix environments and influence stakeholders at all levels (internally and externally), within a hybrid working environment.
• Strong reporting and analytical skills, demonstrated in a fast-paced project delivery setting.
• Highly proficient with Microsoft Suite (Excel, PPT, Teams, Outlook)
• Exceptional standard of written and spoken English, with the ability to communicate clearly (native or close to native language ability in written and spoken English)

Desirable Skills to excel in this role:

• Highly experienced facilitator & project leader, preferably within the context of change management, strategic delivery & innovation within the marketing industry.
• Highly advanced hands-on consultancy skills, inclusive of but not limited to: project and proposal writing, new business development, commercial decision making and marketing landscape knowledge. This may include broad or specific concepts such as:
• Client Relationship Management
• Market Research and Analysis
• Strategic Planning
• Brand Strategy
• Digital Marketing
• Cross-Platform Campaign Management
• Content Marketing Industry Knowledge & Competitive Analysis
• Marketing Communication
• Data Analysis and Insights
• Strong interest and capability in technology, web and software applications.

We want to work with people who are:

Naturally collaborative (Globally) and thrive in a flat and flexible organization.

Thoughtful communicators, seeking to foster meaningful relationships across our community of diverse partners.

Caring and open to all. Those who are inclusive leaders, committed to learning, and leveraging our differences as strengths.

Pragmatic and Optimistic with energy and enthusiasm for what’s next shining through in everything they do. Curious. Those who are courageous and use their deep business insights to cultivate innovation.