Account Director - Hiring Now

About Publicis Groupe

Publicis Groupe, known for its world-renowned creativity, best in class technology, digital and consulting expertise, is the world’s third largest communications group in the world. With more than 80,000 people in over 100 countries, the Groupe has four Solution hubs: Creative with Publicis Communications, Media with Publicis Media, Digital business transformation with Publicis Sapient, and Health & Wellbeing with Publicis Health.

Since 2014 and the acquisition of Sapient, Publicis Groupe has undergone a profound transformation by scaling a new model connecting data, creativity and technology. We have continued on that journey with the 2019 acquisition of Epsilon to further scale our data led offering and provide true momentum to our clients own transformation.

This model, with a country led approach, is called the “Power of One” and gathers all the capabilities of the Groupe under one roof, putting clients at the core of the organisation.

It breaks down the silos between Publicis Communications, Publicis Media, Publicis Sapient, and Publicis Health making them work seamlessly and efficiently to help clients transform marketing and business at scale.

Never has our vision and drive for Power of One been as demonstrable as in the role of the Global and Regional Client lead. The Publicis Groupe is a brand led organisation powered by data driven global Practices and has our clients at the absolute core of our business. The role of a RCL is essential for driving growth, for understanding and leading our clients own transformation through delivering the true scale our agencies capabilities. A RCL sets the vision, builds a culture of collaboration and curates a team of experts from our whole Groupe to deliver on that promise. They are true leaders with responsibility for revenue, profitability and leading the relationship with our clients. We could not be more committed to delivering excellence and we articulate our approach to that as the following;

Clients Come First; The entire Publicis Groupe transformation was designed to put clients at the center of all we do. Their needs and objectives drive the solutions we provide in order to help them win and grow.

We are Seamless; We have created the powerful role of the Regional Client Leader. One person who acts as one point of access and one point of accountability to tap an 80,000-deep pool of talent - free from silos, legacy, and convention.

We are Frictionless; We have unified P&Ls and removed all operational barriers that enable true collaboration.

We are Modular; The core benefit of our new organization is not only in the depth and range of capability but, more importantly, in our ability to configure situationally; the ability to configure around individual client needs and an open architecture to plug & play world class partners when needed. Modularity is critical as it enables a future proof way for this organization support innovation now and keep pace the changes that show no sign of stopping.

We are United; By fusing together our creative, intelligence, and technology expertise, we are able to provide clients with transformative ideas and consumer experiences, unlike any other agency or holding company in the marketplace.

The Role of the Account Director

The Account Director is responsible for contributing to the achievement of business plan objectives by the effective management of the provision of quality communication strategies to clients

Job Purpose

• Maintain regular contact with clients
• Lead effective meetings
• Thorough knowledge of client’s business, competitors and market
• Opportunities for incremental revenue increases identified and developed
• Development of all major and new campaign briefs
• Recommend appropriate research as required
• Brief Creative on campaigns
• Prepare strategies for selling creative work to clients ensuring creative is on strategy and within budget
• Media consulted on strategies as required
• Work conforms with corporate brand identity guidelines and media specifications
• Creative work confirms with advertising codes, legal and ethical standards
• Preparation and monitoring of annual financial plan
• Working knowledge of client contracts
• Sign-off of relevant financial related documentation (ISRs, POs, production estimates etc)
• Provide clients with accurate monthly budget/actual reconciliation/s for media/ production
• Preparation of accurate monthly client billing forecasts
• Record and maintain detailed headhours on all tasks
• Work trafficked in an effective manner
• Team members adhere to established processes and procedures
• All appropriate sign-offs obtained
• Team members have a clear understanding of job requirements
• Performance Agreements in place and reviews conducted on time

• 
  8+ years creative agency or brand marketing experience
• Strong operational prowess with experience building process
• Exceptional digital marketing and strategic abilities across multiple business verticals
• Influencer marketing and production experience highly preferred
• Experience working and collaborating with cross-agency teams to build integrated marketing plans
• Client or agency relationship management experience preferred
• High level of comfort presenting to clients and internal team members
• Self-starter, demonstrates initiative
• Strong Leadership skills and ability to develop and mentor teams