German Speaking Senior Account Director

Salary: £60,000 – £90,000 per year

We are looking for a senior German speaking Senior Account Director to join our rapidly expanding agency. This person will be specifically tasked with driving the success of one of our large client accounts. You will be overseeing delivery of all campaigns – from production and creative to social. You will always be looking for opportunities to improve strategic output across our clients and the agency.

You are highly consultative and have a solid understanding of social media best practice and innovation. We are looking for a well-organised candidate with strong client-handling skills.

You will build valuable long term client relationships by working with senior clients to understand broader strategic opportunities. Furthermore you will provide directional leadership in the digital space and drive the clients business forward by exploring emerging digital opportunities.

Requirements

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum 7 years’ experience working within marketing and advertising industry

• Must have experience in running £2m+ (fee income) digital and production accounts Agency-side
• Must be able to offer consultative and strategic recommendations
• Must have experience interfacing with senior and c-suite comms clients

• You ideally have experience in automotive
• You will build and maintains a deep and mutually beneficial client relationship; challenging clients, identify opportunities and understand key business issues and regularly plan and facilitate review sessions

• You will act as an escalation point for client and project related issues
• Experience in overseeing influencer activations
• Build good relationships with team members, ensuring the team has a high level of morale
• Identify key business opportunities
• Leadership and management of multi-disciplinary resources as and when they are engaged on client activity
• Monthly financial tasks – complete monthly financial tasks such as revenue recognition and forecasting in a timely and accurate manner
• You will ensure projects are delivered in a timely and professional manner taking responsibility and accountability for all internal resources and costs used on client work
• Must be willing to travel at least once a month to visit client offices

QUALITIES AND EXPERIENCE

• Extensive account management experience at a leading digital agency
• Successful track record of building exceptional client relationships
• Understanding and experience in digital marketing; experience in business strategy, creative design and social media as well as broad understanding of marketing/advertising elements of campaigns, annual plans, strategic goals and brand awareness.
• Proven background in brand positioning and strategy, channel planning, campaign strategy and social
• A passion for innovation and business strategy
• Ability to build successful ‘trusted advisor’ relationships with key senior client contacts

Private Healthcare & Life Insurance, 25 Days+ Holiday, Team Minibreaks, Regular Social events

Hybrid working – London/ Remote Home Working (4 days) – flex as you want!