The role

The Senior Account Director role is fundamental to the success of our client partnerships.  You play a pivotal role in leading the smooth running and delivery of our client relationships and projects, through close collaboration at all times. 

As a Senior Account Director you will be responsible for and take ownership of the successful running of a number of large projects, armed with your experience and ability to think and do, to drive our clients business forward and of course, produce work to be proud of.   

You will work closely with the Managing Partner in particular, to understand your client’s strategy and areas of opportunity, be responsible for the financial management of your accounts, and most importantly be a lynch-pin for the team, working closely with internal, client and external teams in multiple locations.

What you'll be doing

• You will be responsible for working across two or three key clients, with a specific focus on product delivery (Tech, UX and Design) partnering closely with a project lead to manage the successful delivery of key projects and opportunities. 
• Creating superb client relationship - you will be a running key day to day relationships with both existing and potential clients, leading and owning the key relationships, to guide the development of the account and become a trusted partner to each of the brands in your portfolio. 
• Delivering excellence at all time - you will be responsible for empowering the team to deliver a best in class experience to a high-profile client base. You will motivate and inspire your team and the wider agency, as a key role with accountability as part of the team for the work we deliver. Relaying client’s expectations, challenges and potential solutions to the teams running client projects. Ensuring constant innovation across our existing accounts and working closely with all teams to ensure this is happing at a micro level as well as macro.
• Taking commercial responsibility - you will be responsible along with your project lead to recognise the commercial implications of agency decisions and external influences, and manage the internal and client conversations arising from these, being well informed about the commercials of all projects you are responsible for. 
• Managing challenges and resolutions - when challenges arise across the portfolio, you will be first person the team go to, tackling challenges head on, problem solving in the moment, feeling empowered to escalate when required and finding solutions and managing the communication with the client, or agency leaders to resolve, and continuously find areas for improvement.
• Making work to be proud of - you will collaborate closely with all client teams to ensure we deliver best solution to the clients business problem, championing the work internally and externally. 
• Supporting wider Client Services Team - you will have line management responsibility within the team. Being part of a team dynamic that people want to be part of a clear vision and direction for the clients business, the standards that you set and at all time push for excellence for clients, while acting as a point of escalation for junior team members. 

Who we are looking for

• Product and service passion - you will have extensive experience of creating and building digital products and services within an agency environment.  
• Strategic and smart but also operational - understanding the vision for your accounts and know how to execute against it. Adept at unearthing client’s challenges you will be able to go into their business, gain respect and understanding and look at opportunities to both grow our relationship and provide a better experience, bring everyone on the journey with you. 
• Solutions focused - you work well under pressure, keeping your cool when challenges arise and looking for resolutions. Not afraid to make the case for what you believe in, you speak convincingly and know how to get people excited about the work we do, and the opportunities ahead.  
• A team player - we do everything we can to deliver the best experiences for our clients. That means developing deep and honest relationships with them, becoming trusted advisors, whilst inspiring and leading a client team of multi-disciplinary experts at times in multiple locations on projects to deliver on our commitments, and ensure everything we do exceeds expectations.  
• A Clear Communicator - you will have a great communication style, as comfortable leading a workshop or pitching a proposal to senior leaders and mentoring internal members of the team in the basics of client services, everything you do will have clear outcomes, next steps and bring people on the journey with you.

What we can offer you

We don’t settle for people who can just do the job, we look for people that go beyond that and always push our thinking to be better than yesterday. We believe that this is what makes our agency a great place to be – a space where you’re never far away from the best minds to learn from.

We want you to be comfortable and proud every day of the week and have created an open and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. We don’t want you to just fit into our culture, we want your uniqueness and diversity of background to add to it and make this an agency where we all have a real sense of belonging and purpose. We are a community. 

Our focus is on keeping teams connected and engaged whether we're in the office or working from home, putting people’s wellbeing first, ensuring every person has access to our learning and development programme and building an inclusive workplace. We have a weekly ‘Staying Connected Calendar’ which is full to the brim of training you can get involved in, inspiration sessions hosted by external partners to check out and wellbeing classes and tips and tricks to look after your mind, body and soul. From yoga, Pilates, HIIT, hypnotherapy, a Strava cycling group, 1:1 resilience sessions and trained mental health first aiders. To name a few. Within our office we have a dedicated wellness studio and this year we built a brand new learning lab. Here we host weekly lunchtime lessons that supports iLearn, our learning & development portal home to 100s of sessions for you to access. We're also committed to building an inclusive, equitable and diverse workforce driven by our Inclusion Council and Employee Resource Groups; Rise, Unite, Re:think, Roots, Wellbeing and Access all Areas.

Your career development is important to us. Thrive will provide you with the framework and support needed to reach your career aspirations. There really is no shortage of opportunities here for the right person that is prepared to roll their sleeves up, get involved and collaborate with those around them to deliver the best work for our clients and our agency.