Account Director

Our client is looking for their next Account Director to join them in Dubai office. It is a leading global agency with a very strong presence in the UAE & Internationally.

The Account Director will take care of large scale global accounts and nurture client relationships while growing existing accounts in the MENA region.

Responsibilities

• This role will work closely with the Group Account Director and is responsible for the overall coordination, execution, and control of production projects.
• Responsible for day-to-day activities with production hubs ensuring successful completion of projects.
• Their proximity to the global leads enables a strong accountability for ensuring consistency with project commitments and goals.
• This role demands a forward-thinking strategic leader who will oversee a large multidisciplinary team serving both regional and global clients.
• Will also play a key role in identifying new growth opportunities both within existing brands and agency new business efforts.
• Also will act as point of escalation for the creative marketing team and reconcile production differences with client concerns.
• In doing so, the candidate will foster strong partnerships with other project leads while overseeing project timelines and planning.
• The Account Director will represent production in the eyes of the client while educating clients and team members.
• Will take responsibility for all production relationships and processes globally ensuring consistency with existing commitments and goals.
• Will actively cooperate with selected stakeholders from the client side, Agency account managers, and the production teams to ensure all agreed work is delivered to the client in high quality and within agreed timelines.
• More than just delivering the expected production materials, he must ensure all production runs effectively and efficiently.
• Additionally, this person will help to identify day-to-day hurdles and address specific production needs and optimizations while providing support to large-scale production.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Marketing, Advertising, Business, or a related field.
• 8 to 10 years of experience running client accounts and developing client relationships.
• Needs to have excellent project management, communication, and client management skills supported ideally by strong technical, digital, and video background.
• We seek someone who is a strategic, motivated, positive, experienced multi-team manager with operational solid production and project management skills to meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced production environment.
• Experience managing and growing a team within the corporate or Agency space.
• This person must be organized, adaptable, and outstanding with client services and communication.
• Experience working as Production Manager, Production Lead, or another key managerial production position at a creative agency, media, or digital agency.

Remote Work: No