Job Description

Company Description

Digitas is a highly-caffeinated playground where brilliant minds come together to make bold, award-winning marketing. We use data-driven insights to guide our work, but we also believe in a healthy dose of spirited storytelling as we strive to transform the marketing landscape.



You will lead the work on some of the most popular consumer brands in the world, impacting the daily lives of nearly 2 billion people in the fastest growing region in the world. You will work for clients who not only care about success in the marketplace, but are passionate about the role of brands in helping bring about social change. The Senior Account Director is responsible for seamless delivery on a client account including creation and communication of effective brand strategies, account staffing and oversight of all client relations and presentations; while providing active support and oversight to an Account Service team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manages a number of key client relationships
• Acts as the first point of contact for client questions and requests
• Talks to other departments in the organisation in order to facilitate client requests
• Builds and maintains relationships with clients often through regular face to face contact and meetings
• Partners with strategists and data analysts to develop and implement highly interactive strategic responses for brand\xe2\x80\x99s business and communications needs
• Ability to manage and collaborate with a team of web developers, technical and programme managers to deliver high quality owned channel/s output.
• Solves problems on high level account and production challenges and knows when to involve / include the right team members to support the ask/s.
• Generate accurate reports on the status of existing business and identify opportunities for organic growth
• Leads presentations with clients and stakeholders
• Manages a budget with a strong fiscal responsibility including managing monthly reviews
• Always on a look out for opportunities to cross-sell within Publicis Groupe i.e. media x data, content x creative.
• Committed to constantly improving our work, and how we work both internally and externally
• Maintains a sense of discretion and professionalism, representing Publicis Groupe
• Manages and facilitates new business pitches when required.

Expectations as a team leader

As your own leadership journey evolves, your primary goal will be to nurture the next generation of leaders. You will reflect our \xe2\x80\x9cPeople First\xe2\x80\x9d ethos, where we believe that the best work can only come from a team that feels happy, secure and motivated, with a clarity of purpose. You value diversity, equality and inclusivity, not because it\xe2\x80\x99s fashionable but because it\xe2\x80\x99s obvious. You embrace change and welcome open conversation and feedback. You can operate in times of ambiguity.

In this role, you will be expected to:

• Provide leadership and professional development to department staff
• Mentor and train team members, write performance reviews, and allocate work
• Monitor teams to deliver beyond client\xe2\x80\x99s expectations
• Motivate your team, and be the glue that keeps teams going
• Set goals and KPIs for each team member, and works with them to achieve these

Qualifications

The ideal candidate for this role should have:

• Minimum 10 years of account experience in a creative advertising agency
• Deep understanding of digital production steps and processes \xe2\x80\x93 responsible for high level digital communication to clients
• Familiarity with UX/UI and DMP is a bonus
• Capable of writing a thoughtful interactive communication strategy presentations, highlighting current trends in digital, media, technology and advertising that may be utilized to achieve a client\xe2\x80\x99s business outcomes
• Lives the interactive ecosystem (truly born of Digital), understands how owned and paid media all co-exist
• Able to effectively interpret and lead regarding performance marketing measurement reporting, whether regarding standard or rich media advertising or social
• Rallies behind interactive briefs and pushes clients and creatives to explore new interactive projects
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines in a fast-paced creative environment
• Effective negotiation and problem-solving skills
• Strong financial understanding of budgeting, estimating and agency profitability
• A track record of gaining trust and respect by consistently demonstrating sound critical thinking skills and maintaining composure in stressful situations
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with all levels of employees
• Highly organized with a keen sense of attention to detail
• Exceptional initiative and follow through skills

If you are a self-motivated individual with a strong passion for using data to solve complex business problems, we would love to hear from you!

Additional Information

Digitas, a part of Publicis Groupe is the third largest communications group in the world, a leader in marketing, communication and digital business transformation. As a platform at the intersection of marketing and digital business transformation, driven through the alchemy of creativity and technology, Publicis Groupe is built on The Power of One.

Publicis Groupe offers its clients seamless access to the expertise of its 80,000 talents across four Solution hubs: creative with Publicis Communications (Publicis Worldwide, Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett, BBH, Marcel, Fallon, MSL, Prodigious), media services with Publicis Media (Starcom, Zenith, Spark Foundry, Blue 449, Performics, Digitas), digital business transformation with Publicis.Sapient and health & wellness.

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