Account Director

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Job description

Job Description

We are looking for a full-time Account Director for a multinational major appliance and consumer electronics corporation to join our team.

The ideal account person will be a leader, business oriented, have proactive curiosity, and cool-headedness, behave like the CEO of their account, brand or project. You will be the only person in the agency who touches every aspect of a project in some way: from the relationship with the client, to the relationship with the team, from strategy to finance to creative to production. It is the role of an account person at any level to ensure that a project meets the client and agency's goals to produce great, creative work, on time and on budget, and to motivate the team along the way.

Responsibilities:

The account director is the agency's leader, producing and environment for the creative work to excel. You will nurture junior team members and client relationships. The account director will:

Partner with the clients, using the knowledge of the clients' business to create the best conditions for the right work to grow, leading to the success of both our partners and our agency.

Manage our teams (direct reports, colleagues, and seniors) with dignity, building followership across the board, navigating the BBH process effortlessly and can lean on the internal expertise available (across offices) to provide outstanding creative solutions to a range of business problems.

Be fluent in all phases of the creative process from strategy, through creative to production and bring their expertise to each stage, foreseeing issues before they arise and heading them off. Taking pressure off the team by handling the difficult conversations and know when to escalate for support is also part of their role.

Be keenly aware of the value BBH brings to the table, which allows the agency to price our skills well and talk about BBH value convincingly.

Be motivated when searching for new business opportunities within the marketing community, always searching for growth while keeping their eyes out for client needs, and quickly translating these needs into a solution to grow the agency business.

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