A boutique strategic reputation consultancy is seeking a dynamic, creative, self-starting Senior Account Director to join its Central London team, delivering high-impact strategic counsel to an exciting and important range of clients spanning private office, corporate, life sciences, and litigation/crisis communications. Please note this role requires 5 days/week in the office
The Role: Senior Account Director
- Producing comprehensively thought-through and brilliantly written strategy documents for delivery and presentation to CEO-level clients
- Generating creative ideas and content for campaigns and communications activations across all platforms
- Developing trusted personal relationships with clients
- Supporting the firm’s Founder and Managing Partner across all client work
- Overseeing day-to-day account management, including workflow, deadlines and reporting processes
- Line managing the research and freelance consultant team, including oversight of daily/weekly monitoring reports and processes
- Identifying new business leads and supporting marketing activity
- Please note this role requires 5 days/week in the office
The Ideal Candidate for this Senior Account Director role
- Confident, highly motivated and self-starting creative thinker
- Collaborative team player with a positive, can-do attitude
- Discreet, with a strong work ethic and strong opinions
- Results-orientated, with a belief in supporting ideas with robust research
- A good all-round operator with experience in media, communications and/or politics
- Exceptional attention to detail, accuracy and a “right first time” approach
- Excellent communicator, capable of taking the lead as both writer and adviser
- Tier One media contacts
- Entrepreneurial in approach to existing clients and new business prospects
- Ambitious to develop their own career to the next level — and dedicated to supporting junior team members in developing theirs
Experience
- Proven track record in media, corporate communications and/or politics
- Extensive direct client-facing work across a range of industries and sectors
- Proven track record leading communications campaigns
- Social and content creation experience
- Good understanding of AI and its impact on reputation management
- Strong history of successfully managing teams
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