The Account Director maintains and grows a specific client's business with the rest of the agency team on an ongoing basis. He directs and coordinates the day-to-day agency on behalf of one client’s product and/or service on the assigned account.

The requirements

• The ideal candidate will have 8-10 or more years of account handling experience.

• General knowledge of digital tools and glossary.

• Excellent facilitation/presentation skills, both in preparing materials required and in delivery.

• Excellent written skills.

• Excellent Public Speaker

• Great client-facing experience.

• Good English oral and written communication skills.

• Fluent in Italian. Spanish and or French would be a plus

• Great account management abilities.

• Well versed in planning campaigns across multiple platforms.

• Global experience: lived in / worked across multiple markets.

• Candidate must live in Barcelona.

Functions

• Reception and preparation of briefs.

• Analysis of the competition.

• Daily /weekly status.

• Prepare the necessary information / documents to develop projects as well as proposal submissions.

• Prepare the scope of work of projects both at budget and timing levels.

• Comprehensive monitoring of the competition.

• Coordination and management of the resources necessary for the implementation and optimal achievement of the different projects by assigning and supervising the different tasks of the teams involved.

• Coordination of the different agency teams involved in each project.

• Supervision of the assigned team according to the project.

• Reporting to the General Manager.

Profile and Experience

• University degree.

• At least 4 years in agency as Account Director.

• Comprehensive profile with offline and online knowledge.

• Passionate about creativity.

• Must be able to promote and judge good creative work

• Resolute when it comes to facing problems and able to anticipate or respond to complex situations.

• Team motivator, enthusiastic.

• Hard worker.

• In search of excellence.

• Strategic vision.

• Proactive.

• Organized.

Expectations

• Must be able to effectively communicate with fellow team members.

• Maintain a deep knowledge of the markets and industry of the company.

• Maintains communications with appropriate agency and client personnel to ensure positive workflow of the client strategy.

• Management and mentoring of account team.

• Contributes ideas to generate more client activity beyond normally scheduled projects.

• Initiates and implements big-picture thinking, guiding the agency team to produce superior results.

• Collaborates with the Creative Director and Planner on the preparation of marketing recommendations, strategies, and actions for the client

• Understands completely how the agency makes money: clients, overhead, PBT, expenditures, etc, and helps to maximize revenue and growth.

• Gains their clients’ trust and regularly dialogues with clients on brand/business issues and advertising/marketing in general.

• Is responsible for the work of the client, one of the most relevant in the category.