The Account Director (AD) role sits within the Client Services/Activation Team at Havas Play, delivering multi-channel campaigns. The AD is one of the most senior day-to-day account leaders and is responsible for managing the work that comes in and leading all work going out, ensuring high-quality response to briefs and timely delivery of campaigns.
Requirements
- Ability to oversee multiple accounts and increased workloads through proof of delegation (both upwards and downwards) of other tasks and responsibilities.
- 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.
- Ability to manage large-scale scopes of work & budgets and identify and deliver on potential growth opportunities for the business.
- Champion for the agency’s processes – Have a strong POV on how to interrogate and answer a brief creatively, and how to position and articulate ideas to the client.
- Ability to proactively drive projects forward, bringing in wider agency expertise & personnel in the process; ensuring all steps & stakeholders are factored into project timelines.
- Ability to oversee all plans and activations, including rights activation, live events, content generation, influencer engagement and coordinating suppliers.
- Competent with the finance processes; monitoring their team are setting up new job numbers, processing POs and invoices efficiently.
- Strong creative and corporate writing skills, to be used across external documents such as client proposals and reports, as well as internal documents such as toolkits and case studies.
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Visa Sponsorship
- Four Day Work Week
- Generous Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation Assistance