Account Director in London, United Kingdom

Company description

We’re a values-based business built around a philosophy of DO vacanciesineu.com FEEL vacanciesineu.com THINK. For our people, it encourages them to DO IT, to FEEL BELONGING and to THINK INDEPENDENTLY, creating a vibrant environment where our people can do the best work of their careers. We use DO vacanciesineu.com FEEL vacanciesineu.com THINK to inspire our clients too. We want clients to show their values to the world through the acts they create digitally and in real life, helping to generate greater emotional connection with their products and brands, and creating audience relationships built on true Belief. How do we do it? By connecting the modern key Belief drivers of PR, Sustainability, Employer Brand, and Digital Influence – all crucial to helping businesses win in our increasingly values-based world. It all adds up to a vision of creating a progressive and connected creative agency that helps clients find new ways to grow.

Our Commitment

Diversity and inclusion is a core part of who we are at MSL. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture that encourages, celebrates and supports our wonderfully diverse employee group – whatever their age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability or ethnicity. Diversity and inclusion doesn’t just fuel our creativity and innovation, it brings us closer to our people and audiences. We will continue to strive to create a culture and environment where everyone feels empowered and more importantly comfortable enough to bring their full, authentic selves to work.

Overview

Our Employee Experience team help clients to build people powered business to believe in, with our work spanning the entire employee lifecycle from employer brand-building to internal communications, change and engagement.

Our Account Directors are essential to our award winning work. You will have experience of helping major employers to attract, engage and retain top talent, and have the ambition to play a pivotal role in driving the commercial success of one of the UK’s leading employee agencies.

We’re looking for an experienced Account Director that wants to take the next step in their career, leading some of the most exciting work in the industry.

Responsibilities

Client ownership:

Confident owning the client relationship and leading strategic conversations on how we can best deliver work

A great presenter:

Strong communications skills and able to captivate a room when presenting ideas or plans

Taking ownership over projects:

Hitting deadlines, organising the project team, managing the client and running budgets up to £250k

Lead account growth:

Identify new opportunities with existing clients, lead new business and activate opportunities with senior support

Financial rigour:

Ensure clients are invoiced correctly, billability of account team members is tracked consistently, and budgets and expenditure closely tracked.

Commercial acumen:

Able to deliver a good margin, negotiate and formalise appropriate budgets.

Develop the team:

Line management and mentorship of junior team members, always ensuring their development is prioritised

Qualifications

Passionate about employee communications

From EVP development to recruitment marketing strategies; you will be experience in and passionate about people comms

Core part of the team

Working together is key to our success; you’ll be great at bringing together teams to deliver great work

Being culturally connected

Aware of the world around you. Understanding trends, attending events and exhibitions.

Be curious

You will actively work to develop in-depth knowledge about the media and communications landscape and MSL’s wider offer. Actively contribute to MSL culture and values. Live our values and take initiative to do.

Problem solver

Ability to think on your feet, work in an agile manner and adapt to changing requests.

Proactive

Be seen as a thought leader in the market and represent the agency at industry events such as webinars, conferences and awards. You will contribute to the development of both of your clients and the wider practice by staying up to date with current communications technologies, ideas and trends.

Additional information

MSL has fantastic benefits on offer to all of our employees. In addition to the classics, Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical and Income Protection Plans we also offer;

• WORK YOUR WORLD opportunity to work anywhere in the world, where there is a Publicis office, for up to 6 weeks a year.

• REFLECTION DAYS – Two additional days of paid leave to step away from your usual day-to-day work and create time to focus on your well-being and self-care.

• HELP@HAND BENEFITS 24/7 helpline to support you on a personal and professional level. Access to remote GPs, mental health support and CBT. Wellbeing content and lifestyle coaching.

• FAMILY FRIENDLY POLICIES We provide 26 weeks of full pay for the following family milestones: Maternity. Adoption, Surrogacy and Shared Parental Leave.

• FLEXIBLE WORKING, BANK HOLIDAY SWAP & BIRTHDAY DAY OFF You are entitled to an additional day off for your birthday.

• GREAT LOCAL DISCOUNTS This includes membership discounts with Soho Friends, local restaurants and retailers in Westfield White City and Television Centre.

Full details of our benefits will be shared when you join us!

MSL operates a hybrid working pattern with full time employees being office-based three days during the working week.

We are supportive of all candidates and are committed to providing a fair assessment process. If you have any circumstances (such as neurodiversity, physical or mental impairments or a medical condition) that may affect your assessment, please inform your Talent Acquisition Partner. We will discuss possible adjustments to ensure fairness. Rest assured, disclosing this information will not impact your treatment in our process.

Please make sure you check out the Publicis Career Page (https://www.publicisgroupeuk.com/careers/) which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG’s (Employee Action Groups).

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