Account Director – Automotive

Job Description

Job title: Account Director – Automotive

Company: Strata

Job description: Imagine being part of a fast and exciting brand experience agency whose clients include specialists in new technology, creators of some of the most stunning electric vehicles on the planet, financial institutions, and global leaders in pharmaceutical solutions. As an agency, we elevate these brands and make them heard through immersive and memorable virtual and face 2 face experiences.

As a people-first business, we encourage ambition, support and reward. We’re always listening and open to your ideas, just as we do with our clients.

Our name? It’s Strata, an agency on a mission to be the very best. This means we always want to hear from the very best creative and intelligent souls who genuinely believe that every moment matters.

Summary of the role

Our Account Directors are the link between our clients and the rest of the business, they manage relationships with our clients on a number of different levels, always looking for ways to develop and grow our partnerships. Commercially responsible for the success of their clients our Account Directors mould the success of our clients events, offering expertise and guidance to ensure that Strata are considered trusted advisors in our field. This role would be sitting specifically in our Automotive team, for some of the world’s largest Automotive companies. Experience within an agency and experience of the Automotive industry is essential.

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining long-lasting client relationships and leveraging these to identify new streams of revenue and maximising profitability
• Taking client briefs for both Internal and External communications activities and gaining a deep understanding of objectives
• Creating proposals and presentations in response to briefs
• Overseeing a wide range of deliverables, working with our in-house teams to ensure quality standards and timelines are met efficiently and profitably
• Ensuring financial targets – revenue and margin – are achieved on every piece of work and providing accurately and timely forecasting to the Client Services Director
• To act as the client escalation, point if required

Candidates must work at a similar level within a marketing communications or experiential agency.

Must-haves:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Organised and diligent, lead from the front and be a good example
• Expert at juggling and meeting multiple deadlines
• A strong communicator with relationship development skills that are second to none
• Calm under pressure with a positive attitude at all times
• Comfortable working across multiple stakeholders from Jnr to C-suite
• Experience of FMCG and global campaigns
• Strong commercial background, working on forecasting, client budget control, and time utilisation across account team
• Previous experience working within the Automotive sector

The benefits

We try to treat our staff as well as possible. So, as well as standard benefits like 25 days’ annual leave, employee discounts and training grants, we also offer health cover, flexible working, and a bustling social calendar.

Expected salary:

Location: London

Job date: Fri, 08 Dec 2023 06:44:46 GMT

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