Zenith Account Director

  • Full-time

Company Description

Zenith is The ROI Agency, we succeed when our clients succeed. We have a simple strategy: motivate our people, deliver great work, and delight our clients. We're constantly striving to create a winning culture and we're delighted that 91% of our people would recommend us as a great place to work. 

We are single mindedly focused on delivering great work. We have a consistent track record of making our clients' communications more effective. Our goal is to achieve commercial marketing success. We don't set out to win awards but see them as a function of great work. Our greatest credential is our client list. 

Every day we work on challenging business and communication issues, in partnership with great client marketing teams. We are proud to have worked with many of our clients for 10 years or more and are equally proud of our new relationships.

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Job Description

As Account Director you would be focused on the strategic side of the process. You would be tasked with taking the initial brief from the client and marrying audience insight to their strategic ambitions.

You'll be leading the creation, direction and on-going development of your client’s media strategy, injecting innovation into all media solutions and achieving commercial return for your clients.

About the client and the team in the agency

Mahou San Miguel group is one of largest advertiser within the category having different brands supported by media activity. Specifically, we are looking for a person to lead Mahou brand, the main brand of the portfolio with a large yearly budget

The candidate would lead directly a team of 5 people (2 managers and 3 planners). Additionally, the Account Director must have the ability and the leadership to manager also the rest of the people not directly reporting to him/her. The extended team for the account is more than 30 people within Zenith + Publicis Media

How you’d spend your day

  • Establishing yourself as the key point of contact for the client and the agency
  • Assuming a client leadership role - managing key senior relationships
  • Delivering the strategy across the brands and the annual strategies for each of them
  • Managing quality control of the agencies output – response to briefs, content projects, practices execution, etc.
  • Ensuring the ideas are high quality, inspirational, game changing and help our clients deliver their brands ambitions in the ever changing media marketplace
  • Managing cross departmental forecasting, budgeting, finance controls
  • Guaranteeing excellent relationships with other agency partners and with key media owners
  • Running both the traditional and digital campaign activities

Qualifications

We look for candidates with these skills

  • Large experience in the media sector (> 8 years aprox)
  • Experience in the category is not specifically required but relevant to have
  • Language: high level of English (B2 minimum).
  • Knowledge of the digital environment and the communication.
  • Knowledge of the tools/ sources of the advertising market.

Potential candidates need to show evidence of the following:

  • Leadership and people management.
  • Client orientation.
  • Planning and organization skills. Numeracy.
  • Communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Strong strategy skills.
  • Curiosity. Full of energy for the things.
  • The ability to use initiative.
  • Challenging. Open to new ideas and change.
  • Steadfastly pushes self and others for results. Teamwork.
  • The ability to work under pressure.

Additional Information

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TALENT
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TRANSFORMATION
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