What are the responsibilities and job description for the Group Account Director position at Inside Ideas?
Role: Group Account Director
Location: Hybrid / Chiswick, London (onsite x1 day per week)
ROLE MISSION
Working in partnership with our client, the Group Account Director will lead the solutions and teams setup across Global (France & Netherlands) and UK. The role ensures delivery against growth and account performance targets, alongside maintaining positive working relationships across all categories at the client's office.
ABOUT THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING
Reporting to the Managing Partner, the Group Account Director oversees the client's studio ecosystem of approximately 30 talents split across 3 teams, and maintaining a connection with Business Leads for the client's studio: Brazil and China. They will work across the client’s full portfolio of brands with a focus on Digital, Social and Ecomm.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING IN YOUR ROLE
- Line management of 4 direct reports (Account Directors and Senior Account Managers), with oversight of Account Managers and Account Executives
- Handle revenue growth through the existing portfolio and supporting new business wins
- Provide accurate gross profit & MI reports to senior management, including margin management
- Build strong value-add client relationships at various levels.
- Work in true collaboration with the client and be responsible for Brand Guardianship on their projects to ensure that the client experience is as positive as possible.
- Own the execution of projects, run rates and client satisfaction through catchups with job owners and the weekly account/project management WIP.
- Help identify and convert business development and new business opportunities with assigned clients.
WHAT SKILLS WILL HELP YOU BE SUCCESSFUL
- Experienced leader and a strong understanding of how to motivate and develop high performing teams.
- Experience of building and sustaining meaningful client partnerships whilst maintaining a strong commercial focus.
- Results driven – creation of and delivery against business plans driven by growth targets
- Excellent communication skills to be able to robustly present ideas to clients, and continually cascade knowledge / news throughout immediate team and the wider business
- Confident working autonomously with partner or 3rd party agencies
- Excellent presentation skills – both written and spoken
- Understanding of how to integrate with a client-side team whilst maintaining a top tier agency service.
- Highly creative with the ability to generate ideas and practically contribute to studio output.
- Experience working at an Agency, advertising and/or digital communications.
- Experience working with FMCG products is a plus.
- 10 years of relevant experience in: Digital , Social, Print & Artwork, Production
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