Hybrid Senior Account Director

at M&C Saatchi Group

• Job title: Senior Account Director
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Sydney, Australia

About the role

• Senior Account Director managing client relationships and integrated campaigns at Greenhouse Collective in Sydney. Leading team collaboration and ensuring outstanding client outcomes in a creative agency environment.

Responsibilities

• As a Senior Account Director, manage relationships with key client stakeholders and oversee day-to-day client communications
• Lead forecasting and process across integrated campaigns, delivering work across integrated, digital, social, content, and branding projects
• Collaborate closely with Brand Strategy, Creative & Design, and Integrated Production teams to ensure seamless delivery and outstanding client outcomes
• Understand the client's business and seek ways to add value to drive the client business in terms of creative product, market share, and brand recognition
• Strategically drive the client’s marketing product within the category; anticipate potential competitive threats or opportunities and make recommendations to clients
• Monitor the health of the account team and ensure that resources are appropriate and profitable
• Build and nurture beneficial working relationships with the wider agency team by actively listening and seeking guidance
• Use learnings on campaign performance to orchestrate maximum effectiveness on future campaigns, from brief through to production and implementation
• Support Managing Partner/Group Account Director when required
• Act as a mentor to junior members of the Account Management team, setting a positive example for team behaviour, learning, and collaboration.

Requirements

• Previous experience working as a Senior Account Director, ideally from a creative agency environment
• Proven experience leading integrated campaigns and comms projects
• In-depth knowledge of communications projects: TV, radio, print production, sponsorships & other emerging media including digital; web, email, mobile
• A leader - proven ability to build and inspire a diverse team, to elevate quality of work and ideas to the next level
• An influencer, able to take people on a journey, to achieve buy-in across critical issues
• Passionate about great ideas, underpinned by commitment to delivery.

Benefits

• Flexible leave options, including: Flexible public holidays
• Summer half-days
• Ability to work from anywhere in the world for up to two weeks per year
• Dedicated volunteer leave
• Study leave to support your learning and development
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave available to all parents
• Regular catered staff lunches, plus complimentary breakfast, fruit, and snacks
• Free access to Sonder, a wellbeing and safety app
• Regular in-house and sponsored events to foster connection and engagement
• Learning and development opportunities, including access to internal and external courses
• Annual work-from-home setup allowance to support your remote workspace