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
  • Profit related bonus 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 AD2.
The closing date for this post is Thursday 1st April 2010*.

*Your application will be considered as soon as possible after the closing date. Redweb endeavour to reply to all applications, however should you not receive contact within four weeks of this date, we regret that your application will have been unsuccessful.