ACCOUNT DIRECTOR JOB DESCRIPTION

Account Director Duties and Responsibilities:

• Operate as the primary point of contact for key account stakeholders
• Develop a trusted advisory relationship with accounts, customer stakeholders and internal partners
• Form and execute strategic communications programs on behalf of retained clients
• Develop content, including but not limited to white papers, market reports, and blogs
• Prepare bylined articles and press releases for the media
• Cultivate and enhance collaborative working relationships with the press
• Identify story angles and effectively broker stories to journalists

Account Director Requirements and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Business
• 7+ years of relevant work experience as a communicator
• Exceptional writing skills
• Proven skills and success in media relations
• Healthcare experience in any of the following organization types: provider, health plan, technology, economics, or policy 
• Campaign planning capabilities
• Work well and collaboratively within a full-service agency environment
• Fluency in Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

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Account Director Roles and Responsibilities:

• Leading clients, and thinking
• Managing and nurturing a small team, ensuring the development of their skills
• Take responsibility for the smooth running of your division and team from an operational, creative, production and financial standpoint
• Develop a clear understanding of the differing brand strategies and guidelines to ensure that all work remains strategically and tonally sound
• Developing integrated strategies and presenting those to senior clients
• Blend strong thinking with excellent project management and operational skills and work with different departments within the agency to get the job done. 
• Ability to make decisions in a timely manner and find solutions to unique problems is key to this role.
• Investing time to develop your own knowledge and capabilities in the digital space
• Taking ownership of financial forecasts for your accounts to ensure the profitable delivery of effective work
• Assessing the value the agency adds to every brief
  

Account Director Requirements and Qualifications:

• At least 1+ years at Account Director level
• Ideally, come from a start-up culture or have experience working with start-up clients
• Deep understanding of all major advertising, design, social and digital marketing channels
• Proven track record of content strategy development and creative production
• Adaptable and collaborative
• Thrive in a fast-paced dynamic environment

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Account Director Duties and Responsibilities:

• Shift work up from the project level to business level needs and objectives, engages clients and manages a team
  
• Lead cross-functional agency team to provide thought leadership in the development, execution, measurement and presentation of multi-platform strategies in alignment with client-determined objectives across both digital and traditional landscapes
• Partner directly with the analytics, strategy, creative and technology teams to ensure measurable progress toward client goals
• Work with cross-functional partners to create agile solutions to non-standard projects and timelines
• Mine new, organic business opportunities with existing clients, by building relationships across the client’s organization, and with key industry partners
• Develop, coach and empower supervisors to foster a culture of growth and development with the team
• Demonstrate a collaborative and co-creative mindset that engages teams to work together on common goals and inspire each other to achieve great work
• Take ownership and demonstrates initiative in all areas of improving the management and growth of all partnerships
• Exhibit enthusiasm for clients’ business and industry; maintains leading edge of knowledge of clients’ business and industry
• Passionate about building connections between brands and people, understands the value of an idea, makes an effort to hone their good creative instincts
• Leads business building conversations with key client partners
• Builds trust internally and with clients through proactive business leadership, anticipates the need, prepared in the face of different challenges and opportunities
• Possesses excellent problem-solving, interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• Guides client business without overextending or risking agency resources
• Keeps clients and team members focused on the future, not just today and certainly not the past
• Understands what it takes to drive organic growth and seeks out opportunity by over-delivering unexpected value to the client, not simply executing or selling

Account Director Requirements and Qualifications:

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field; graduate degree is a plus
  
• Six to 10-plus years of experience, which includes agency or senior client-side marketing experience
• Extensive experience with direct mail, email, digital and omnichannel marketing - CRM or loyalty focus is a plus.
• Ability to provide clear, persuasive briefings to creative teams and remain an active contributor throughout the creative development process
• Deep knowledge and experience with multichannel marketing
• Excellent writing, presentation development and delivery skills
• Excellent organizational skills
• Very comfortable working in an integrated agency environment
• Experience managing and growing employees and teams
• Financial responsibilities include review and sign-off of monthly billing and forecasting, client management or escalation of billing as needed
• Ability to concurrently lead and grow multiple clients

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