Account Director/Senior Account Director

ABOUT DIGITAL RADISH

Digital Radish is the award-winning creative marketing agency for B2B brands who want to stand out, to scale up and stand for something memorable, specialising in creative campaigns, ABM and brand.

  • Sunday Times Best Place To Work ’23
  • B2B Marketing Agency Of The Year (Gold 21/22 + Bronze 22/23+ Bronze 23/24)

We develop bold, unexpected creative and fresh, unconventional thinking that breaks the B2B mould and holds space in minds and memories.

We want our people to have the best working experience of their lives, so they can create the best work of their lives, for our clients and their customers.

 

Responsibilities

  • Building deep, trusting relationships, cross-functionally with client counterparts to become the trusted adviser, offering added value while advocating for the agency POV
  • Mentor junior members of the team and direct reports, to help them realise their full potential
  • Leading and developing the strategic direction for your accounts
  • Managing Branding projects and ABM campaigns from strategy and creative development to content creation, through to campaign delivery and results tracking
  • Spotting opportunities within clients to establish where we can best add value and grow the account
  • Demonstrating responsibility and accountability for overall account performance and flawless delivery
  • Immersing yourself in the essential dynamics, strategies, and drivers of your client’s business
  • Inspiring the creative team with excellent briefs, brainstorming sessions, and workshop facilitation
  • Consistently managing client expectations, ensuring delivery of the highest quality service, and soliciting and acting on client feedback efficiently and professionally
  • Managing P+L of your client, ensuring profitability of projects and campaigns, ensuring work is delivered on budget
  • Monitoring and communicating POV on current B2B marketing and industry issues

 

Who are we looking for?

  • 5+ years of working in account management and/or strategy director-level role, within a B2B agency environment
  • Proven ability to manage long term B2B accounts with multiple projects and teams
  • An exceptional understanding of delivering ABM and B2B campaigns, previous experience of working with technology clients and proven ability to build and maintain strong client relationships
  • Digitally fluent, with an understanding of the B2B landscape and how to bring together cohesive programmes and drive results for clients
  • Ability to understand the client’s business, regardless of the sector and be able to discuss intelligently with the client
  • Experience managing direct reports and growing a team
  • Strong presentation, verbal and written skills as well as proven ability to conceive, prepare, write and give key presentations to clients and teams
  • Flexible, solution-focused, and happy to work across a range of projects and clients in a fast-paced environment
  • Commercially-minded with an understanding of resource utilisation, recovery, and their relationship to overall client profitability
  • Passionate, engaging person who is fun to work with

Why should you work with us?

  • Be part of something special – this is an exciting, growing agency with huge new opportunities to make your mark
  • A vibrant, fast-paced team of passionate people. A respect for work-life balance, flexibility and supportive management
  • Flexible working – work where suits you best – from home, our lovely office at Tottenham Court Road, or wherever suits your needs. If brilliant work is being done, we trust you to do it wherever or whenever you like!
  • Work anywhere in the world – we go the extra mile for remote work. If you want to spend time abroad, or extend a holiday without using up holiday time, working wherever you like is fine with us if it works for the work!
  • 28 days annual leave – (25 days + your birthday + 2 days Radish holiday)
  • Digital Radish Holiday – our annual trips are a reward for all our hard work where we spend a few days celebrating our successes and unwinding together. Previous holidays have included all-inclusive trips to 5-star hotels in Portugal, Ibiza and Barcelona
  • Monthly socials – whether that’s flexing our competitive muscles at our sports day, raising money for worthy causes at our Pride tea party or celebrating Veganuary, we make sure that there’s something fun for everyone!
  • Personal development budget – an allowance for you to spend on books, subscriptions, training courses and programmes to aid your development
  • Healthcare support & wellbeing fund – a personal budget for you to use towards anything that will lift your spirits – physically or mentally

If you feel this is the role for you, please get in touch to careers@digitalradish.co.uk with Senior Account Director as the subject line.

We’re committed to building an inclusive culture that encourages, celebrates and supports a wonderfully diverse employee group – whatever their age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability or ethnicity. We continue to strive to create a culture and environment where everyone feels empowered, and more importantly, comfortable enough to bring their full, authentic selves to work.