Group Account Director

Group Account Director

Why choose Tag?

We are the long-standing, production partner of choice that has helped brands across borders and cultures for over half a century achieve their business goals. With 2,700 experts in 29 countries across the world, we are a global team of collaborators, innovators, and motivators.

We pride ourselves on creating empowering, safe, and supportive environments for all our employees, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, ability, or any other defining factor. We embrace difference through diversity of thought, experience, and expertise to maximise potential and bring the greatest benefits for our people and our clients.

We can’t bring big ideas to life without exceptional people. At Tag, we respect individuality and the power of the collective. We want people to be themselves, unafraid to voice ideas, no matter how big they are or who they come from.

In June 2023, Tag was acquired by dentsu Group, Inc, though we remain a distinct brand that is led by, Tag Global CEO, headquartered in London. As dentsu’s acquisition of Tag significantly expands content delivery capabilities, Tag’s expertise to deliver personalized, omnichannel content in real-time and at-scale for clients remains unparalleled across the entire customer journey, unlocking marketing effectiveness and efficiency.

Tag and dentsu bring together our innovation and technology infrastructure to help solve clients’ toughest challenges. United in business acumen, we share similar core values, company culture, and embrace a vision “to be at the forefront of people-centric transformations that shape society”.

dentsu was founded over 120 years ago and proudly counts nearly 72,000 employees around the world.

The Group Account Director is responsible for the growth and client engagement within a group of key existing client relationships and contracts. They may manage a global or local relationship or a combination of both across multiple brands.

They will be responsible for creating an account strategy to drive profitable growth across their business. They will work collaboratively by liaising with other members of the business on existing accounts to develop these plans. They will deliver on these plans by building effective relationships across all functions within Tag and their clients.

They will provide strong leadership for a group of managers to ensure that they have the right tools to be successful and to deliver on our commercial and production promises to clients

• Proven ability to develop client relationships to grow the business
• Solid experience of account or general management at a senior level
• Ability to sell either one to one or via pitch to multiple clients with strong presentation skills
• Self-starter who actively drives own projects and performance
• Able to demonstrate commercial acumen
• P&L responsibility
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Capable of developing, implementing and delivering change, plans and strategy
• Provide leadership, motivation and development to a diverse team
• Strong commercial awareness, with the ability to plan and negotiate
• Ability to research, model, write and present proposals/RFPs
• Can communicate vision/strategy
• Continually develops self with a curiosity to develop ideas and new ways of client engagement

• Gravitas, confidence and charisma, professional appearance
• Desire to actively develop strong, lasting client relationships
• Enjoys engaging senior colleagues and clients in social and professional situations
• Intellectual ability to think on feet, negotiate face to face with senior clients and make decisions
• An entrepreneur who can deliver operationally
• Instinctive commercial ability both in face to face situations and in formal written documents/presentations
• Ability to think 3 steps ahead, think strategically, articulate visions and understand the wider effects of actions
• Ability to operate at different levels – from very senior client management to junior staff
• Can think and operate politically when required
• Strong customer service focus
• Can work successfully in an operational, hands on environment and can…