Remote Waitrose Account Director - MG OMD

We’re on the hunt for a passionate, strategic and sharp Account Director to join the Waitrose and Battersea team. Waitrose being one of our most creative, innovative and transformative clients.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a capable AD who is both commercially astute and creatively driven. You’ll be leading the charge on media planning, inspiring standout ideas and working closely with both our clients and internal teams. You’ll collaborate with specialists across the agency, manage a talented Account Manager and Executive and report into a Business Director.

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, love retail and want to create award-winning work that makes an impact, we want to hear from you.

About the Role

The role will be fast paced and agile, and you will be pivotal in ensuring that client deliverables maintain a high standard, and proactively look to anticipate client needs, leading and overseeing the day to day running of both accounts.

Integration with the wider client and specialist teams will be fundamental to ensure all campaigns deliver to client objectives and are planned, implemented and reported upon effectively.

Additionally, there will both a Planning and Strategy Director support on client responses as well as a full digital planning team to assist on that element too.

About You

You’ll be organised, confident and passionate about great media planning. Excellent at building client relationships and have autonomy to run activity and nurture the team

You’ll build strong relationships at all levels, and we hope that you thrive in an agency which is caring, passionate, hardworking, fun and like a family (of 500!) even if only for a short time

Role Requirements

• This role requires a well-rounded, inspirational Account Director with media agency experience.
• Direct and nurture your team in the coordination and timely delivery of campaign responses and day to day management of client requests.
• You will be as comfortable servicing clients as rolling your sleeves up and leading on media briefings/responses.
• Ability to digest, interpret, and respond to client briefs in a high-paced environment.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills with proven expertise in presentation storytelling to deliver impactful, persuasive proposals to clients
• You will look to challenge clients where necessary and work with them to form a trusted relationship.
• You will be competent planning across all media channels – including digital.
• You will also be competent on all media planning tools (such as e-Telmar) and can dissect data to tell a compelling story.
• Without question your attention to detail is sound, you are a conscientious worker, who is as confident in front of clients as the wider agency.
• You will have:
  
  a passion for brands; the ability to deliver great work; have fantastic interpersonal skills; and be curious and passionate about the UK media marketplace.
• Have strong capabilities within use of data and tools to provide evidence-based media strategies to meet client objectives which clearly describe how each channel contributes to objectives and goals.
• Develop strong relationships with specialist channel teams to ensure effective working processes and best in class work delivery.
• Look to educate the client – provide innovation session with key media owners to keep client up to date with industry developments

About the Agency:

MG OMD was established in 1990 as a challenger media agency (Manning Gottlieb Media) that placed craft, trust and performance at the heart of media planning and buying. ​

Since joining Omnicom network’s OMG (Omnicom Media Group) in 1998, we have continued to retain our founding ethos of providing clients with bespoke approaches, unprecedented insight, specialism, security and transparency; helping our clients to use media to unlock their competitive advantage and deliver innovative, effective and award-winning work and campaigns that create difference that matters.​

MG OMD is the second-largest media agency in the UK. We are the most awarded media agency in both the history of the IPA Effectiveness Awards and Thinkbox’s TV Planning Awards and have this year been named as Agency of…