Account Director; F1

Octagon is a global creative agency, with a speciality in sport and entertainment partnerships. With over 800 team members around the world, we work with brands to create big ideas that fans love and want to engage in, because it’s built in and around their passion. Where others see complexity we see possibility, and we believe in pushing authenticity, creativity, and longevity to do great things in the industry that lead the market.

Octagon is now part of the Omnicom

It’s a great space to play – in the world of culture, content, and events – and if you’d like to be a part of it, we would love to hear from you.

Our values: empowerment, intelligence, inclusivity, innovation, and impact, guide our behaviours as people and shape the way that we operate as a team. As a senior member of the organisation, you will find ways to embody these in your own job as well as provide leadership and oversight on how those values come to life in all our staff and how we collectively operate.

We’re excited to be recruiting for an outstanding Account Director to join our London office. This role will lead track-side hospitality programmes and brand activations for one of our motor sport clients, with a strong emphasis on end-to-end product supply, logistics and service delivery across the F1 season.

If you’re known for exceptional client service and have a proven history of delivering impactful live events, we’d love to hear from you. You’ll be a confident and inspiring people leader, committed to mentoring and developing your team, while driving outstanding results and playing a key role within the agency’s motor sport and experiential offering.

We’re looking for a passionate marketer with experience across Formula 1 sponsor ships and events. A good understanding of the hospitality ecosystem within F1 will be key to this role, and ideally exposure to working with beverage brands, but not essential.

• Providing guidance as an experienced operator in F1 hospitality, navigating the client through rights-holder requirements and restrictions, while recommending impactful ways to activate within the sport.
• Build a strong understanding of the client’s brand identity and objectives, ensuring delivery aligns with defined KPIs and consistently represents the brand to the highest standard.
• Act as point of escalation for day-to-day client stakeholders, developing solutions to client challenges and presenting your approach in a clear, engaging and persuasive manner, always balancing clients´ interests with protecting the agency and team.
• Forward planning to ensure any pinch points are effectively managed and the best resource is available and allocated based on skill sets and project requirements
• Work closely with the client to build strong, lasting relationships across Formula 1 and the wider network, positioning the brand confidently within the sport.
• Support the negotiation of MSAs, scopes of work, fees and financial reporting in partnership with senior leadership members of the account team.
• Lead vendor and supplier negotiations, tracking and contracting in line with company policies.
• There will be a requirement to travel to events throughout the F1 Season.

• Lead, manage and develop a team made up of an Account Manager and Senior Account Manager to provide the very highest levels of client services.
• Develop a highly effective, collaborative team who continually surpass client expectations
• Act as a coach/mentor/motivator, adapting to individual personalities and developing the team so each member grows and works effectively including managing goal-setting and performance reviews
• Instill best practice ways of working for the team, with an understanding and mindfulness of company process and compliance requirements.

• Confidently establish relationships with and advising senior stakeholders across clients, rights holders, within the agency and wider Omnicom Network.
• Display an entrepreneurial spirit to growth, regularly suggesting potential opportunities (new targets and existing client growth)…