Account Director
About the role
The successful Account Director (AD) at BBDO New York is responsible for leading the business of marketing for assigned clients, bringing together the agency’s capabilities across creative, strategy, performance, content, social, PR, media, experience, and technology. The AD is a senior day-to-day client partner who understands the client’s business objectives, marketing priorities, and competitive environment and translates them into clear direction for integrated agency teams.
Responsibilities
Lead the day-to-day business and marketing relationship across assigned client workstreams.
Develop a deep understanding of the client’s business, objectives, category, audience, and competitive environment.
Orchestrate integrated agency capabilities across creative, strategy, performance, content, social, PR, media, experience, technology, and production.
Own the quality and integrity of the agency’s creative product across assigned business.
Contribute to and, where appropriate, lead strategic discussions with clients and internal teams.
Maintain a clear view of upcoming client priorities, projects, risks, and opportunities.
Lead integrated teams through the development and delivery of complex marketing initiatives.
Evaluate campaign performance and translate results into recommendations for optimization and future work.
Manage the financial health and profitability of assigned client business.
Lead, develop, and strengthen the account management team.
Qualifications
Minimum 10 years of relevant advertising, marketing, or integrated communications experience.
Significant account management experience leading complex client business within an agency environment.
Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships with senior client stakeholders.
Strong strategic marketing instincts and a solutions-oriented approach to client and business challenges.
Experience leading integrated marketing programs across multiple disciplines and channels.
Strong understanding of scope development, financial management, project setup, staffing, and profitability.
Thorough understanding of production management and the development and implementation of scopes with creative and production teams.
Pioneered ability to lead, manage, and develop account teams.
Excellent presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills.
Strong organizational skills and the ability to lead multiple priorities and workstreams simultaneously.
Benefits
Hybrid working environment: Employees are required to be in the office Tuesday through Thursday and work from home Monday and Friday.
Salary: $150,000
Pay
$150,000
Schedule
Hybrid working environment: Employees are required to be in the office Tuesday through Thursday and work from home Monday and Friday.
Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.
Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together.
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For US Job Seekers: Omnicom is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together.