Digital Account Director
- Employer
- Career Monkey
- Location
- London (Greater)
- Salary
- £40-50K depending on experience!
- Closing date
- 17 Feb 2019
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- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Discipline
- Press / Media Relations, Digital, Consumer
- Seniority
- Senior Management, Manager / Mid-Management
- Sector
- Entertainment, FMCG, Retail, Telecommunications, Travel and Tourism, Technology
Job Details
A digital Account Director is needed for this ever-growing digital team, that are part of a successful and well respected mid-sized PR agency! This is a new investment hire due to continued growth of business, which is a positive start to 2019! The agency is approx. 60 people, based on the verge of East London, they have a great senior management team that have passion and ambition for the agency!
My client is an independent communications agency with a proven, award winning pedigree in consumer, business and corporate PR. They combine big, creative ideas with sound strategy and media nous to help clients gain the attention they need from the audiences they want. Their expertise is rooted in a complete and utter passion for the media world in which we all live – print, broadcast, social, digital, and everything in between. And because communications today is so much more than just words, they help their clients create visually interesting and sharable content that drives audience engagement and helps businesses thrive.
The agency is a gang of like-minded individuals who value their careers; they work hard, they’re successful, driven and ambitious. That of course comes with perks, which include 25 days holiday, leisure allowance of £250 per year, Perkbox, early finishes Friday in the summer months, a company bar tab at the local pub every Friday and external and internal training through their Schoology programme. The agency is run by an open and transparent management team and are massively committed to succeeding as a team.
The clients span a number of sectors including FMCG, travel, financial services, technology, entertainment with some of the most exciting brands in business today.
They are looking for an ambitious Account Director to join their Digital and Social Media team. You must be driven, organised, extremely professional and eager to take on a challenge with an ambitious agency.
Key requirements for the role:
- Experience with digital and social insights and analytics tools from Google Analytics to social platform insights and social listening tools (eg. Radian 6, Brandwatch, Hootsuite)
- A strong understanding of digital and social measurement from KPI development to tracking and campaign evaluation
- An understanding and ideally experience in paid social media – strategy and execution
- Know what SEO is and the role of content in the digital and social space
- Experience of working in a fast-paced agency environment and delivering to tight deadlines and high standards
- Experience delivering digital and social strategies for consumer and corporate clients
- Experience of working with big global brands
- Experience in managing a team across multiple accounts in a positive and encouraging way, providing support and guidance on an ongoing basis
- The ability to work alongside your peers to drive forward business, working to existing targets and providing general leadership to the rest of the teams
- The ability to work closely with our senior management team to help set business targets and to grow the digital and social media offering
- Experience of capacity planning for your team and understanding of how this impacts your team and its performance
- Experience as the senior point of contact for your clients, providing counsel on a daily/weekly basis. Exceptional communication and networking skills are necessary
- Experience of new business – building a network and utilising it for the purpose of lead generation
- Be able to lead on new business briefs, in an appropriate and timely way
- Experience of working as part of an integrated marketing communications team
- Strong organisational and project management skills
- The ability to work autonomously and self-motivate, but also form part of a strong team
Please get in touch with Jenny for further information!
Company
Career Monkey is a personable, London based recruitment agency, that specialises within the PR/Communications/Social Media space, both contingency and search, across varying sectors for both consumer and corporate disciplines.
Career Monkey recruits mid weight through to senior strategic management positions, both permanent and freelance. Clients include large networked agencies, smaller boutiques and varying brands. Always keen to discuss new briefs and new career ventures!
- Telephone
- 07739 126 716
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