Account Director

23 Hours ago • All levels

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Job Description

As an Account Director, you will partner with clients to develop stunning and effective needs-based content and digital media campaigns. You will be responsible for managing projects, leading the team, and ensuring the work meets the client's needs. This involves anticipating problems, managing expectations, supporting the team, and planning for contingencies. You'll build strong client relationships, foster trust, and develop a partnership that delivers exceptional work. You will work closely with Strategy and Creative teams, understanding strategic debates regarding brands. You will also be responsible for financial accountability, project management, process development, and brand guardianship.
Must have:
  • Manage projects with clients from start to finish
  • Provide leadership to the onsite creative team
  • Identify resources for delivering the brief
  • Schedule team priorities and deadlines
  • Champion strategic client partnerships
  • Manage financial aspects, including forecasting
  • Maintain internal and external communications
  • Guard the brand and present work
  • Manage workload within timings
  • Ensure the right people for project needs
Good to have:
  • Excellent client engagement and influence skills
  • Passion to understand clients' brands
  • Ability to organize and prioritize workloads
  • Experience with digital creative solutions
  • Knowledge of account and project management
  • Generate ideas and contribute to studio output
  • Integrate with client-side teams
  • Experience with major FMCG clients
  • Embodies a positive attitude
  • Understanding of AI tools

Job Details

Established in 2004, OLIVER is the world’s first and only specialist in designing, building, and running bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries and counting. Our unique model drives creativity and efficiency, allowing us to deliver tailored solutions that resonate deeply with audiences. 

As a part of The Brandtech Group, we're at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results. 

Role:  Account Director 

Location:  Manila, Philippines

About the role: 

Working in true collaboration with our client, we have one goal in mind: ‘to be the leading agency partner for the development of stunning and effective needs-based content and digital media campaigns’‘to be the core craft and digital partner of Unilever powering global and regional creative excellence, achieved by elevating our people, expertise and culture to deliver shared success” 

This is a great opportunity for a level headed, strategic thinker, who has gravitas with a client and would like to play a big part in defining and advancing a positive and highly productive design culture for OLIVER.  

The Account Director is the client’s partner to bounce things around with and to own the relationship, and they are the agency leader to be responsible for projects, the team resource required and the work to be delivered. They think ahead, spotting problems before they occur, managing client and internal expectations, support their team both managing up and down, and contingency planning as they go.  

They develop close relationships and a sense of partnership with their clients and foster trust based on their ability to deliver. This trust enables them to develop, nurture and protect the best work possible through the client process. Internally they have strong relationships with all team members and a thorough understanding of how to lead their team to create great work and help problem solve when it’s needed. They work in partnership with both Strategy and Creative, and are fluent in the strategic debates regarding their brands. They are passionate about our creative product and know what best in class looks like both in terms of creativity and results. 

 

What you will be doing: 

  • Ability to manage a project with the client from beginning to end 
  • To provide leadership and expertise to the onsite creative team at Unilever  
  • Identify the best resource within your team to deliver the brief. 
  • Schedule and manage team priorities and deadlines across client projects  
  • Championing a lasting and strategic partnership that cultivates a client experience to engage and delight  
  • Financial accountability. Stellar project management, fully responsible for financial management regarding jobs/accounts including forecasting. 
  • Process Development and fulfilment – maintaining ongoing communications, both internal and external, to keep processes and resources streamlined  
  • Brand guardianship  
  • Presenting your work internally and to clients and manage workloads within agreed timings.  
  • Resource Management - Working alongside the Creative Director to ensure you have the right people at the right time to deliver to client/ project needs 

 

What you need to be great in this role: 

  • Excellent client engagement skills with the ability to proactively organise and influence clients and build strong and effective working relationships. 
  • Passion for deep-diving into a client’s business to get under the skin of it and fully understand their brands, products, and ways of working 
  • The ability to manage and filter workflow as well as organise and prioritise workloads to maximise productivity. 
  • A strong understanding and experience of working with end to end digital creative solutions; particularly across Social Media, eCommerce and Social Commerce  
  • Knowledge of account management, project management and invoicing. 
  • Highly creative with the ability to generate ideas and practically contribute to studio output. Ambition to push for the best and create award-winning work 
  • Understanding of how to integrate with a client-side team whilst maintaining a top tier agency service. 
  • Experience working with major FMCG clients, as well as beauty or cosmetic brands a huge bonus  
  • Embodies the “can-do attitude” and is seen as a constant positive force on the team 
  • Passion for and inquisitive about AI and new technologies 
  • Understanding and knowledge of AI tools is beneficial, but ability to learn and digest benefits and features of AI tools is critical 

Req ID: 12996

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Our values shape everything we do: 

Be Ambitious to succeed   

Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible   

Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work   

Be always learning and listening to understand   

Be Results-focused  to exceed expectations   

Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations   

OLIVER, a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.    

 OLIVER has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science-based emissions reduction targets. Collectively, we work towards our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.

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