Account Director

Location: City of London
** Agentur :
** Havas Play
** Stellenbeschreibung :
**** Job Title
** Account Director
** Reports To
** Senior Account Director / Business Director
** Role Summary
** The Account Director (AD) role that sits within the Client Services/Activation Team at Havas Play.

This AD role is an integrated role spanning creative content-led campaign planning and delivery, alongside management of partnerships and activations.

Experience in managing cross-functional teams is important to this role, with the ability to lead on driving work through Strategy teams, into Creative teams and out of Studio/Production into delivery, with the ability to manage multiple creative work streams simultaneously. An understanding of digital content and media landscape is important, and the role will be integral part of a inter-agency team (IAT) – compromising of a Creative agency, Media agency, and Production agency.
** Purpose of Role
** The AD is one of the most senior day to day account leaders and it is the irresponsibility to manage the work that comes in and lead all work going out, ensuring high quality response to briefs and timely delivery of campaigns.

The AD requires strong interpersonal skills, understanding demands of both clients, partners, and inter-agency teams – connecting the different teams in the business to deliver on briefs and campaigns; as well as being accountable for all of the financial procedures and processed across their account(s).The AD should have in-depth industry knowledge, be an exceptional client handler who is adept at managing multiple client stakeholders, whilst also leading and developing the team and working within a diverse mix of team structures.

They should possess a commercial mindset, being able to manage large-scale scopes of work & budgets and identify and deliver on potential growth opportunities for the business.

The AD will lead the output of a D2D account team, compromising of an SAM and SAE, whilst managing upwards (SAD/BD, Managing Partner). They are responsible for resourcing projects within the team, managing team capacity and working with specialist department teams (Strategy, Creative, Studio, Production, Measurement, Talent & Influencer etc.) to ensure the appropriate resources have been committed to work streams.
** Key Responsibilities
** The AD, should be confident in all of the areas laid out below:
** Account Management:
*** Working across multiple clients and projects simultaneously, whilst maintaining a high quality standard without projects falling behind.
* Working within a inter-agency team, alongside Creative Agency (Havas London), Media Agency (Arena Media, part of Havas Media), Production Agency (Prose on Pixels), the AD is a crucial part of ensuring best-in-class cross-functional delivery, driving high standards and best-practice processes with their counterparts within aforementioned Havas agency teams.
* Be a natural at mobilsing large cross-functional teams, being able to spin multiple plates at once with different stakeholder groups, with the ability to proactively drive projects forward by bringing in wider agency expertise & personnel into the process; ensuring all steps & stakeholders are factored into project timelines.
* Create project plans and timelines that are effective; manage these throughout a project lifecycle mitigating any delays to delivery.
* Ensure the right team is in place, with the right capacity and skillset. The AD should manage the capacity of the account team, keeping work to scope and having a handle on any over or under delivery.
* Possess the ability to stay calm and display a positive, solutions-focused attitude whilst under pressure.
** Strategic skills and responding to client briefs and RFPs:
*** The AD should have a strong point of view on how to interrogate and answer a brief creatively, and how to position and articulate ideas to the client.
* They should be confident in the brief process from interrogating the brief, to insight, strategy and creative briefing, delegating to the team and drawing on other business team leads where necessary.
* They should demonstrate clear strategic thinking in their day-to-day work across their accounts…