Global Account Director

Aligned to one of our top clients, this exciting Account Director role will require your strong organisational skills and planning superpowers! These strengths will come into play whilst talking to a variety of Marketing and Digital Managers at Essity as well as Planners in multiple markets – collaborating with the team to achieve greatness.

Your ability to multitask is second to none and will be called upon every day.

As a genuine people person who is digitally very proficient, this role will provide you with the opportunity to work across the EMEA, NA, and LatAm markets.

Reporting to the Global Business Director and working very closely with the Global Strategy and Digital Directors to develop and launch campaign ecosystems and toolkits that are fit for purpose for local activation.

The team:

In the Central team, there are 8 of us of across client servicing, strategy and digital. We also have 2 Digital Hubs that activate performance media centrally for some of the brands: Tena, Libresse (B2C) and Tork (B2B).

All based in London and a diverse group of Nationalities including English, Lebanese, American, Colombian and French. Just think of the new languages you can learn!

Responsibilities:

Multi-market and multi-channel planning

• A global mindset as well as an appreciation for local nuances is critical – we want someone who can closely collaborate with the Strategy and Digital Directors to develop fit for purpose campaign ecosystems that will drive in-market success
• This will cover mining audience insights, writing case studies, delivering competitive analysis

Operations and network management

• The role also consists of driving adoption and governance of the centrally developed ecosystems, and leading the network management, billing / invoicing (with the support of the Account Manager and Account Executive).
  • This will include leading the development of bi-monthly network calls, ensuring trackers and reports are delivered on time, supporting the Business Director with ad-hoc requests.
  • Network management and coordination to ensure accurate reporting of data requested by the global client.

Stakeholder management (Internal and External)

• You will be engaging with multiple stakeholders in Zenith Global as well as local market teams. We have a highly talented and diverse team and support groups that allow us to do our best work. The person we are looking for should be able to manage up, down and across to get things done.
• In terms of Clients, you will interact with the Global Media and Marketing teams. Again, it’s critical that you are able to initiate successful engagements with clients of different levels, expertise and backgrounds

Business Development

• We grow by ensuring our Client’s businesses grow. Having a growth mindset is imperative.
• You will be expected to continuously spot growth opportunities and propose suitable solutions to address them, in return driving growth for the client.

Qualifications

Experience working in the media industry in an account or planning role and demonstrated ability to work across projects and teams. Exposure to both traditional and digital media. Proficiency with media research and industry tools is essential.

• Client service: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of external and/or internal clients; gets first-hand client information and uses it for improvements in product services; acts with clients in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with clients and gains their trust and respect.
• Project Management: Is action oriented and full of energy for the things he/she sees as challenging; experience coordinating and managing multiple projects at a time; ability to judge and value work scope; ability to work both collaboratively and with autonomy; organised with attention to detail; seizes opportunities and is very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and other for results.
• Strategic Planning: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Teamwork: Is seen as a team player and is both agile and collaborative, easily gains trust and support of peers; proven record of leading team and managing relationships; can quickly find common ground and solve problems for the good of all; can represent his/her own interest and yet be fair to other groups.

What You WillGet:

• Free Private Healthcare for you and your family
• Work Your World for up to 6 weeks a year
• A very rich Family Friendly policy
• Birthday Day Off
• Season Ticket Loan
• Work From Home Allowance
• Flexible working
• Volunteering Leave
• Generous Pension
• Income Protection Plan
• Summer Fridays

Additional Information

At Zenith Global, we believe that fostering an inclusive culture where all talent can thrive makes our company stronger and help drive invention in the work we do for our clients better. We also believe it enables a greater idea exchange that fuels innovation and best reflects diverse consumer experiences.

We are committed to encouraging our talent to participate in Publicis Groupe’s wide variety of talent engagement and inclusion programming, which includes professional development experiences and participation in the company’s many business resource groups. These include VivaWomen!, Égalité, MOCA (Men Of Colour Alliance) and more than a dozen others that are thriving across our network.

Through advocacy, education and inclusion we foster greater collaboration among our people, which in turn inspires work that provides better experiences for our clients and their consumers.