Job description
ACCOUNT DIRECTOR - EXPERIENTIAL EVENTS
BERKSHIRE
£EXCELLENT
LKS16867
This is an opportunity of a lifetime to join an award winning, established, experiential agency!!
THE COMPANY
Working for a huge variety of exciting clients, this close knit team delivers all aspects of concept design through to delivery of campaigns including events such as team building, road shows, product demonstration, sampling campaigns, product launches and press launches. As a full service agency with in-house production, creative, staffing and even transport services they have built an excellent reputation of creative thinking and highly polished delivery. The expertise within the team has delivered award winning campaigns for some of the world's leading experience brands.
THE ROLE
As part of their ongoing success and expansion they are now recruiting an Account Director with an agency background to head up client relationships and oversee delivery of their events.
Managing a team including Account Managers and Accounts Executives, the role is broad and includes the following amongst other things:
*Managing and developing client and stakeholder relationships
*Managing a number of key client accounts
*Growing and developing client relationships to maximise business
*Taking briefs from clients and overseeing the creative response
*Producing proposals and pitching for new business
*Providing approval for key project documentation - timelines, reports, etc.
*Building key relationships with internal teams (events, production, creative, video etc.)
*Approving project budgets and protecting company profitability
*Line managing and developing a team
*Reporting and analysing delivery
*Staying updated on key experiential trends, event industry news and understand a healthy marketing mix
THE CANDIDATE
To be considered for this Account Director role you will have experience working within an experiential agency delivering a variety of events for business to consumer. You will have extensive experience of maximising accounts, developing new opportunities, leading ideas and remaining one step ahead in the industry to deliver outstanding creative brand experiences time and time again.
In return this experiential agency offer a fantastic opportunity to use your experience in delivering some of the most exciting experiential campaigns for a variety of clients and the opportunity to advance your career in a leading business.
Live specialises in all disciplines (and at all levels) across marketing, creative and events. If this position isn't quite what you're looking for please visit www.live-recruitment.co.uk to view all of the opportunities we are recruiting.