Account Director (Brand / Advertising)

Boldspace is seeking an experienced Account Director to join our team and play a key role in driving our agency's continued growth and success within our brand & advertising team.

ABOUT BOLDSPACE

Boldspace is an integrated brand value agency of 50 talented employees. We grow your meaning, your reputation and your worth through brand building, communications and analytics. We bring together advertising, marketing and PR through a pioneering approach - fusing our award-winning proprietary analytics platform BoldLensTM with the finest strategic and creative minds to see more, create better and find the gap.

Requirements

The Account Director will lead a number of day-to-day accounts and be responsible for client delivery, satisfaction and growth. You will at times, lead a growing team of juniors and work with the agency’s wider talent across creative, strategy, PR and analytics to delivery truly outstanding service and outcomes for clients. 

Key Responsbilities: 

• Be a senior contact for client accounts, providing advice that gives them confidence and builds long-term relationships. 
• Manage client service and agency performance, ensuring the standard of output across the agency is second-to-none – always faultless, proactive, meaningful, and fame-changing for our clients. 
• Lead multiple accounts across different industries. 
• Take the lead in drafting new business proposals, often independently while seeking and managing input from across multiple teams beyond core advertising and content briefs. 
• Understand the commercials of agency life – maintaining profitability on client accounts, time management and discussing scope questions with clients proactively. 
• Look to bring new business opportunities to the agency wherever possible. 

Relevant Experience:

• Minimum seven years’ proven agency experience working on clients across multiple sectors. 
• A good knowledge of the brand, content and advertising landscape with established relationships and demonstrable campaign delivery in the past. 
• Polished presenter and adept at explaining industry terms and outcomes to senior clients. 
• Experience in developing new business, both in leading pitch processes and using your own ideas and network to originate opportunities. 
• Track record of independently bringing in and winning business. 
• A deep understanding and knowledge of the advertising and communications sector/s. 
• Management experience in developing star performers and overseeing performance

Benefits

Apart from a competitive starting salary and being part of growing something special, you can expect a truly radical place to work with maximum freedom and benefits:

• Learning & development: everyone has a compulsory 1/2 day a month to learn, read and develop where they see fit.
• Pensions: a 5% employer contribution.
• Private Healthcare: Vitality
• Equipment: choose your own equipment – let us know which tools you need and we’ll do our best to get them for you.
• Holiday: unlimited holiday (including all UK public holidays) – we trust our staff to take the time they need and still excel in their jobs – and days off for birthdays and moving house are guaranteed!
• Flexible working: complete choice over where you work each day.
• Regular salary reviews: in line with a salary framework, to ensure equal pay for equal work and that we recognise and reward when your responsibilities increase.
• Socials: team socials regularly, chosen by the team.
• Team retreats: time to get to know each other away from the office.
• Bonus: transparent bonus structure where you can receive a % of base salary based on personal and company performance.
• Supporting good causes: we contribute some of our outperformance to charitable causes which the team help choose.
• Wellness: time within working hours every week for those that want or need it.
• Monthly benefits budget: £50 per month, every month, to spend on whatever you want – from a home delivered vegetable box and discounted gym memberships, to mental health support and professional coaching.

A CARBON NEUTRAL BUSINESS

Boldspace is a certified B Corp Business and measures its performance on profit, people and planet combined. From day one, we will offset your carbon footprint entirely. The cost of this is covered 100% by the company.