Senior Account Director leading key client relationships for SEEN Connects, an influencer marketing agency. Driving excellence and client satisfaction across campaigns and teams with innovative strategies.
Responsibilities
Lead strategic relationships across key accounts, ensuring client satisfaction, retention and growth.
Build trusted partnerships with senior stakeholders, industry peers and potential new clients.
Proactively identify and pursue opportunities for account growth.
Provide clear, strategic direction across accounts, ensuring all work aligns with client objectives and delivers measurable results.
Partner with Strategy and Campaign teams to deliver insights-led recommendations that strengthen creative and commercial performance.
Foster and nurture a motivated and supported team that thinks innovatively, applying their knowledge to inform strategic client guidance.
Champion excellence in all written and verbal communication across your team to make your clients' lives easy.
Ensure all client-facing materials, from presentations and pitches to campaign recaps are clear, insightful and concise.
Act as a confident, persuasive and inspiring presenter, able to engage audiences across new business, client meetings and public speaking opportunities.
Support the leadership team with thought-led content, including articles, panels and events.
Lead on account financial management, including forecasting, budgeting and profitability tracking.
Identify and convert opportunities for upselling, cross-selling and new business.
Present compelling business cases and proactive proposals that drive agency revenue growth.
Collaborate with senior leadership to deliver annual targets across client portfolios.
Inspire and develop a high-performing team of account and campaign managers.
Provide clear direction, mentorship, and growth pathways for all direct reports.
Manage workload allocation, capacity planning and performance reviews.
Handle challenging conversations with professionalism, fairness and empathy.
Foster a collaborative, inclusive and supportive team culture where everyone thrives.
Work closely with cross-departmental leads to ensure seamless delivery.
Champion cross-agency collaboration across Captivate Group.
Encourage open communication, collaboration and knowledge-sharing across teams.
Requirements
Proven experience as a Senior Account Director (or equivalent) within an agency environment.
Exceptional communication, presentation and relationship-building skills.
Strong commercial and financial acumen; experienced in budget management, forecasting and profitability.
Strong strategic thinker, able to translate client objectives into actionable, measurable plans.
Skilled in people management - able to mentor, motivate and lead by example.
Calm under pressure, solutions-focused and able to manage multiple complex projects.
A champion for collaboration, culture and quality across every touchpoint.
Willingness to participate in training, awards judging, speaker opportunities and thought leadership initiatives to represent the agency externally.
Demonstration of a proactive approach to personal & professional development.
Ability to embrace feedback, coaching and development opportunities to enhance leadership, strategy and commercial skills.
Benefits
Hybrid working, working from our Shoreditch HQ on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and from home on Mondays and Fridays.
Core Hours of 10:00 - 17:00 with the flexibility to start anytime between 08:00 - 10:00 and finish between 17:00 - 19:00.
Summer Fridays - a 3pm finish on Fridays in July and August
24 days of annual leave, increasing to 25 after one year and 26 after two years of service
3 personal days a year which are days that you can take to give yourself a break and support your wellness and mental health.
A £100 voucher to spend on something to support your wellbeing
Work from anywhere for up to one month each year, as long as you can work on UK timezones and have a strong internet connection
Snacks and drinks in the office, and free lunch provided when we have lunch and learns
Vouchers for Above and Beyond Award winners in our monthly company meeting, and a chance to make your wishes come true with a £1000 prize going to a randomly selected winner in our lottery of wishes each quarter that we hit our targets
Private healthcare cover and life insurance
Cycle to work scheme and annual season ticket loan available
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