Group Account Director

1 Week ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

The Group Account Director (GAD) will be responsible for the development and quality control of client accounts, owning the client relationship and leading the creation and delivery of work, ensuring strategic accuracy and creative quality. This role blends client services expertise with hands-on social media execution. The GAD will take ownership of client accounts, executing the strategy, and working with their direct reports to plan the delivery of social media campaigns. The GAD will also be the point of contact (POC) for senior clients, the face of new business pitches, and a senior head within the Melbourne office.
Must have:
  • Develop a deep understanding of client's business strategy and processes.
  • Ensure client accounts have a clear path forward.

Job Details

Role

The 1000heads APAC team are looking for a talented Group Account Director to join our team. A GAD at 1000heads is the business owner for two or more accounts (dependent on account scale). A GAD will be responsible for the development and quality control of each account. Ultimately, the GAD will own the client relationship and lead the creation and delivery of our work, ensuring strategic accuracy and creative quality.

You’ll will take on a dual role that blends client services expertise with hands-on social media execution. You will take ownership of client accounts, executing the strategy, and working with your direct reports to plan the delivery of social media campaigns. You will be the POC for senior clients (mostly based in Melb), face of new business pitches and a senior head within our growing Melbourne office.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work with some of the Australia’s biggest brands such as Isuzu, EnergyAustralia, Live Nation, Hisense and more.

The 1000heads team is a proud, powerful collective of Social Media obsessives, who are experts managing client relationships. You will work closely with a whole host of departmental specialists, from Creative, Insights, to Design, and Strategy to deliver transformational social-first work for our clients.

Responsibilities

Strategic vision

Working with senior clients and senior personnel at 1000heads, the GAD will ensure that the account has a clear path forward. This will involve developing a deep understanding of our client’s business strategy and processes, working with clients to identify what their overall strategy for social communications is and where it fits into their wider organisation. They will proactively work to constantly push clients forward and delight them with new and original thinking.

Client experience

The GAD will take overall responsibility for the client relationship ensuring a clear and transparent feedback loop into the agency. They will take on all top level account resource decisions, ensuring that 1000heads team members are intelligently positioned on the account and stay motivated and challenged.

Account profitability

The GAD will ensure that scoping is accurate and sensitive to the client’s requirements and budgets. They will ensure that account-servicing levels are tracked, understood and managed.

Account growth

The GAD will take a proactive approach to client relationship development, identifying and understanding where strategic growth opportunities are, establishing new relationships and proactively proposing new concepts and plans that will take our client’s business forward and open up a broader service offering for 1000heads.

Concept creation and presentation

The GAD will take a leading role when responding to large campaign briefs and new business pitches. They will typically work with partners from other functions, helping to steer and craft both the strategic plan and the creative articulation of the idea. They will integrate other functions (e.g. Developers or Videographers) from across the agency into the process as and when they are needed.

Delivery of social

The GAD will take a high level view on the delivery of work, ensuring creative assets produced are true to the client approved plan, that performance targets are being met, streams are optimised when required and servicing levels are as they should be.

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About The Company

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1000HEADS IS A SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION™ COMPANY


We combine expertise in data & analytics, strategy, technology and creativity to help the world’s best businesses build social age brands.


If you are interested in joining us, please contact us on hr@1000heads.com


If you would like to get in touch about to find out more about us working with you, please use info@1000heads.com

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