Account Director

Ref: 592

Role: Account Director

Salary: £35,000 – £40,000

Location: Sheffield

Hours: Monday – Friday (Hybrid) 

Benefits:

• A diverse workforce with different backgrounds, employed solely on ability.
• They are committed not only to our legal obligations, but also to the positive promotion of equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment.
• They are therefore committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community of work colleagues – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit.
• They offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies, and welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds and sections of the community

Our client is looking for a talented and experienced individual to join their award winning Marketing and Communications Team to lead in the delivery of high profile behaviour change and marketing accounts across a range of clients.

Responsibilities:

Account direction and client services

• Relationship management for key clients
• Project scoping – requirements gathering and producing briefs/specifications
• Planning and delivering innovative campaigns
• Bringing together teams to deliver
• Quality control and testing
• Budgeting and analysis of project efficiency

Corporate/cross company:

• Playing a key role in the delivery of high quality client services
• Contributing to the company’s revenue, profitability and productivity targets
• Tracking, evaluation and analysis of project budgets to increase efficiency 

Business development/growth:

• Actively engaged in growing existing clients
• Supporting new opportunities in conjunction with the Business Strategy team

Skills and competencies:

• Ability to develop and grow strong client relationships
• Marcomms strategy and delivery including project management
• Excellent knowledge of the delivery of a range of Marcomms services including digital marketing and social media marketing development
• Commercial acumen with proven experience of budget and sale accountability and bottom line delivery
• Attention to detail, reliability
• Problem solving skills
• The ability to cope with pressure and work to tight deadlines
• Strong interpersonal and team-working skills