About the role

  • Director of Client Services leading the team at Ear to the Ground. Focused on client leadership, commercial growth, and operational excellence in sport, gaming, and entertainment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and evolve the Client Services function, setting the vision, standards, and frameworks for how we deliver consistent excellence across Business Directors, Account Directors, and Account Managers.
  • Implement and enforce operational processes, ensuring disciplined adoption across teams to strengthen continuity, financial accuracy, and delivery quality.
  • Identify and embed continuous improvement opportunities that streamline delivery, strengthen cross-functional collaboration, and drive a unified client experience.
  • Work with the COO to ensure optimal, resource planning, utilisation and commercial performance across the Client Services team.
  • Embed KPI-led performance management for delivery, profitability, and client satisfaction.
  • Align Client Services with agency-wide objectives, ensuring the department contributes strategically and commercially to overall business goals.
  • Act as the senior-most point of escalation and counsel for key global clients, building deep, trusted partnerships at Board level.
  • Translate complex client challenges into pro-active growth strategies informed by Fan Intelligence®.
  • Steer how the agency shows up for clients - ensuring output is strategically sharp, creatively brave, and culturally relevant.
  • Lead the development and delivery of annual and quarterly business reviews, ensuring clients have clear visibility of performance, ROI, and future opportunities.
  • Drive client satisfaction, manage stakeholders with confidence, anticipate challenges, unlock opportunities, and maintain high levels of client retention and advocacy.

Requirements

  • 12+ years’ experience in client leadership, account management, or commercial leadership within a creative, advertising, or marketing agency ideally within high growth environments.
  • Proven experience leading large client portfolios and managing senior relationships including C Suite and Board level
  • Demonstrable success in leading and growing multi-million-pound accounts and improving commercial performance.
  • Strong financial acumen: forecasting, P&L management, margin optimisation, and commercial negotiation.
  • Deep understanding of the sport, gaming, and entertainment landscape and how culture drives fan behaviour.
  • Strong leadership presence with a track record of developing high-performing teams and establishing best-in-class processes.

Benefits

  • Flexible & hybrid working (minimum 3 days in office)
  • Birthday off
  • Workplace nursery benefit
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
  • Private medical insurance and health cash plan
  • Enhanced sick leave
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Personal development coaching + more

Job title

Director of Client Services

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

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