Account Director
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Occupation Type
Marketing, sales and advertising directors
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
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£87,300
(£44.77 per hour)
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Description
DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay, and OpenAI. We have been certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.
Job Purpose
This position sits in our Marketing & Technology service based in London. We combine data, technology, creative content, and paid media to crack brands’ business problems & drive revenue through a variety of digital marketing solutions like ad campaigns, augmented reality, and chatbots. Our clients include ASOS, Just Eat Takeaway, Twitch, TikTok, and The White Company.
Working on projects end to end, Account Directors develop the strategy for the brands they lead and oversee day-to-day delivery of that strategy; including managing a team. You will represent Dept® to our clients, adding value to relationships beyond organisational skills. You are entrepreneurial, always putting the customer and their goals at the center of your actions.
Candidates must have experience managing teams and complex campaigns for brands.
What You’ll Do
Job Purpose
This position sits in our Marketing & Technology service based in London. We combine data, technology, creative content, and paid media to crack brands’ business problems & drive revenue through a variety of digital marketing solutions like ad campaigns, augmented reality, and chatbots. Our clients include ASOS, Just Eat Takeaway, Twitch, TikTok, and The White Company.
Working on projects end to end, Account Directors develop the strategy for the brands they lead and oversee day-to-day delivery of that strategy; including managing a team. You will represent Dept® to our clients, adding value to relationships beyond organisational skills. You are entrepreneurial, always putting the customer and their goals at the center of your actions.
Candidates must have experience managing teams and complex campaigns for brands.
What You’ll Do
- Be responsible for centralised and decentralised account support at the very highest level
- Coordinate a dedicated account team to ensure optimal customer and project support
- Full budget and profitability responsibility, proactively and strategically develop the relationship with our clients
- Work with our expert teams to develop customized solutions for project implementation
- Lead, line-manage, motivate and inspire your team
- Develop annual strategies, identifying priorities for the year
- Oversee, project manage and work with teams to develop brilliant digital content (creative, production)
- Have extensive, professional experience in roles involving account management and strategic planning, ideally in an agency environment, and have experience in an international context
- Extensive professional experience in managing projects with six-figure annual budgets in digital marketing
- Grasp complex correlations quickly and holistically; you are open, communicative and see the big picture
- Are characterised by a structured, analytical and independent way of working
- Have experience in digital marketing, ideally in the automotive sector
- Confident and experienced in managing complex campaigns
- Experience working on a global brand
- Confident with both brand and conversion/direct-response campaigns
- Experience leading, motivating and coaching team members
- Strong client relationship management skills
- Brilliant written and verbal communication skills as well as excellent presentation skills
- Advanced problem-solving skills
- Excellent organisational skills and high attention to detail
- Proficient in working with data
- A flexible, hybrid working policy
- The choice of medical healthcare providers (Bupa or Medicash)
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and your birthday off each year
- Company pension scheme
- EAP scheme
- Ride to work scheme
- Enhanced family friendly policies
We are a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, we create what is next by pioneering ideas, acting fast, and moving further because standing still just is not in our DNA.
We are drawn to people who stay curious, move with intent, and never stop inventing. Our culture runs on three values: better together, relentlessly curious, and get sh*t done. It is how we work, how we grow, and how we make things that matter.
At DEPT®, you will find the freedom to explore, the space to collaborate, and the trust to make a real impact for our clients, for each other, and for the world we are helping to build.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION
At DEPT®, we take pride in creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We actively seek to recruit, develop, nurture, and retain talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with varying skills and perspectives.
Not sure you meet all qualifications? Apply, and let us decide! Research shows that women and members of underrepresented groups tend not to apply for jobs when they think they may not meet every requirement, when in fact they do. We believe in giving everyone a fair chance to shine.
We also encourage you to reach out to us and discuss any reasonable adjustments we can make to support you throughout the recruitment process and your time with us.
Want to know more about our dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion? Check out our efforts here.