Group Account Director- Mat Cover

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Introduction

Dentsu is the network designed for what’s next, helping clients predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities and create new paths to growth in the sustainable economy. Taking a people-centred approach to business transformation, we use insights to connect brand, content, commerce and experience, underpinned by modern creativity.

The Story Lab is an important part of our world-class offering -It is a global investor, producer and distributor of premium entertainment content, headquartered in London with offices in 15 markets, including Los Angeles, Shanghai, Singapore, Paris, Madrid and Mumbai. Since 2015, The Story Lab has been distributing successful primetime TV shows and films while also delivering strategic content production, partnership and monetisation solutions to advertisers. The Story Lab is a dentsu company and it currently consists of 300 entertainment, marketing and investment professionals across the world.

We’re hiring for a Maternity Cover - Group Account Director as part of The Story Lab in London.

Purpose of the Role

To deliver outstanding and profitable work for our team clients via innovative and ambitious integrated content, partnership & sponsorship solutions, whilst managing a high performing team to do the same for our clients. 

Key Responsibilities
 

• Taking ownership of the commercial delivery for their designated agency and works with ACD to deliver incremental revenues
• Defaulting lead for new business on agency patch
• Assuming MAGIC leadership, creative quality control and responsibility for delivering department strategic initiatives with ACD
• Challenging and probing client brief, ensuring the team has complete clarity on client objectives and delivers key creative and strategic input
• Working collaboratively with Media Owners to build mutually beneficial partnerships to drive innovation
• Directing, mentoring and nurturing the team and delivers culture and social workstream for TSL across agency patch
• Leading on negotiation of contracts with external stakeholders, together with development of scope of work and fee remuneration negotiations with clients
• Owning senior day to day management of TSL biggest clients and agency planners to ensure work is to an excellent standard and relationship is collaborative and fruitful
• Taking ownership of the commercial delivery for their designated clients
• Challenging and probing client brief, ensuring the team has complete clarity on client objectives and delivers key creative and strategic input
• Working collaboratively with Media Owners to build mutually beneficial partnerships to drive innovation
• Directing, mentoring and nurtures their team
• Leading on negotiation of contracts with external stakeholders, together with development of scope of work and fee remuneration negotiations with clients
• Generating & challenging the brief with lead agency and determining creative route
• Day to day team leadership decisions re workflow management
• Resolution of client problems, resource or media owner issues

Interact as per below

• Senior day to day clients and agency planners - to service and deliver creative leadership
• Group Heads and implementation teams at media owners - to ensure brilliant delivery of campaigns and first to market opportunities
• TSL team – to provide direction and mentorship to immediate team
• Legal and commercial teams – to ensure legal and commercial excellence

Qualifications + Skills

• Circa 5+ years’ experience in content, planning, implementation, client servicing fields
• IPA Advanced or equivalent experience
• Development and activation of content/ partnerships / sponsorship across multiple media disciplines
• Management of team of 3+ people
• Detailed cross media knowledge
• Experience of running a team
• Client and project management
• Clear understanding of role of content and media to solve a client business challenge
• Negotiation skills and commercial understanding (incl. legal, contracts etc.)

What we offer

• This is a Maternity cover position.
• The teams are based in our London office and operate under flexible working arrangements
• As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

Inclusion and Diversity

Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their whole selves to work and be proud of doing so. For us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.

We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles – we can’t promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.

About dentsu

Taking a people-centred approach to business transformation, we use insights to connect brand, content, commerce and experience, underpinned by modern creativity. As part of Dentsu Group Inc. we are headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and our 65,000 employee-base of dedicated professionals work across four regions (Japan, Americas, EMEA and APAC). Dentsu combines Japanese innovation with a diverse, global perspective to drive client growth and to shape society.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion sits at the heart of our Social Impact strategy – our fully integrated sustainability strategy which includes our ambition to build a fair and more equal society, where everyone is equipped to thrive.

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