Job Description

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Inclusion at every level is crucial to creative innovation and success, and we want to create a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging. We welcome and encourage talent from ALL backgrounds and are committed to creating a representative team that can deliver creative excellence.

If you require any support, adjustments or accommodations for any reason whatsoever during the recruitment process, please let us know via recuitment@wearesocial.net

Our 1,300-strong global team is passionate about all things social. We were born from an understanding of how socially-led ideas can connect people. This is still at the core of everything we do. Collaboration is key to our achievements. We share our ideas and knowledge across our whole network, so we learn and improve together.

The Account Director role sits within the Client Services team, a crucial part of our achievements. As the Account Director, your primary focus will be leading the day-to-day running and management of one of the biggest global brands in the gaming world.

With experience in a digital, PR or creative agency, you will be able to demonstrate a solid and successful track record of successfully simultaneously running multiple projects whilst creating meaningful client relationships and producing outstanding socially-led campaigns. You\'ll be leading a highly effective and fast-paced team. You will be expected to provide consistently clear direction to a team across Project Management, Strategy, Editorial, Creative, Design Research and Insights, helping to shape the social output across multiple global markets.

Requirements:

Reporting to a Group Account Director, you will have the scope to proactively shape and grow the client relationship, working closely with influential stakeholders. You\'re motivated to deliver great work and collaborate with our clients to spot opportunities to push the brand\'s creative opportunity to the max.

Your qualities

• Proactive - anticipate needs, take the initiative and over-deliver.
• Organised - you\'ll be totally on the ball, someone who gets things done and orchestrates the action.
• Tenacious by nature, you\'ll seamlessly forge robust day-to-day relationships with internal teams, other agency partners and your clients - representing We are social and reinforcing our position of social leadership.
• Knowledgeable - you\'ll feel empowered dealing with the complexities of working with different creative disciplines with a clear view of how Social can be part of the mix.
• Ownership- you will be the trusted, considered and friendly invaluable owner of your projects.
• Team Player - you are happy to get involved to ensure you and your team deliver
• Humble - you\'ll have an opinion, but you won\'t mind when someone tells you it\'s wrong - you\'ll respect the guidance/ experience of your Group Account Director/ Business Director.
• Industry insight- you\'ll be able to draw on your knowledge of trends, developments and new technology through a genuine passion for the industry
• You\'ll work with your Group Account Director/ Business Director, Traffic Managers, and Project Management to ensure you proactively request the right resource giving as much notice as possible.
• Creative - you know, good creative when you see it - from brand development to campaign executions - you have sound and robust judgement backed up with experience and a clear rationale.
• Evidence of good people management skills, which is shown in a collaborative style - willing to solve issues for the good of all
• A genuine passion and belief in the power of social thinking
• A willingness to learn, develop and grow
• An appetite to do the best work of your career

• 25 days holiday, increasing by 1 day for each year of service (capped at 30 days)
• Hybrid office and home working (minimum of 2 days a week in the London office)
• Private Medical Insurance
• Company Pension scheme
• Group Income Protection
• Optional Dental Insurance
• Comprehensive internal and external staff training programme
• Cycle-to-work scheme and season ticket loan scheme
• Optional sabbaticals after 3 & 5 years
• Employee Long Service Awards at 5 & 10 years
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Social clubs and regular agency events
• Free office breakfast and snacks

We Are Social