Account Director

Are you passionate about digital, excited by the challenge of winning and retaining clients? Do you have a flair for leadership with the experience of working as a part of a successful digital agency?

Can you combine all this with an understanding of all commercial aspects of success?

Redweb is looking for you!

You will:

  • Provide strong leadership, direction and motivation to our account management team
  • Act as single point of accountability for clients
  • Be a strategic partner to clients in their digital activity
  • Understand opportunities and challenges of clients markets
  • Have a thorough knowledge of emerging technologies and digital trends and understand how these will affect clients
  • Run creative ideas sessions with account teams and client teams
  • Generate project and creative briefs
  • Oversee and ensure the quality of client deliverables, e.g. timely, on budget, on brand, on strategy and to defined standards
  • Seek opportunities for additional revenue within existing key accounts
  • Look to secure annualised contract relationships (retainer)
  • Build excellent relationships at a variety of client levels

Based in our Bournemouth office, the successful candidates will have:

  • BA degree or substantial experience in account management in an agency environment
  • Strong digital media and online marketing background
  • Significant client experience with primary accountability for peer-level client relationships
  • Previous experience of working on sizable digital accounts
  • Experience of design and UX as well as campaign creation and management
  • Experience in leading teams with multiple discipline representation (technology, creative and planning)
  • Strong commercial awareness and selling/negotiation skills
  • Experience of preparing and writing written proposals and presentations
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Experience in managing creative marketing campaigns.

As well as competitive rates of pay, we also offer:

  • Working for a progressive and fast growing company
  • Training opportunities and personal development
  • Working with some of the UK's top blue chip and government organisations
  • Contributory pension scheme
  • Generous holiday allowance
  • Childcare voucher scheme
  • Good social scene and events.

Redweb are an equal opportunities employer.

No agencies need apply.

To apply for this vacancy email HR@redweb.com with your CV and a covering letter quoting reference AD1.