Group Account Director

Job description / Role

Fabulous opportunity for a smart, experienced Group Account Director to join this creative and forward-thinking branding agency.

This agency has a reputation for constantly striving for creative excellence whilst maintaining a commercial and strategic approach.

Clients range from corporate to consumer and work spans strategic branding, digital and corporate and consumer communications.

Due to growth and fresh input of ideas, this year is a pivotal time in the development of the agency and a really exciting moment in which to join and be part of it.

The Group Account Director is critical to the client services team. This individual will be required to run a team to drive excellence in client relationships, strategically and creatively, rapidly growing client business and new business opportunities to hit revenue targets. This senior role needs to represent the agency values both internally and externally, assisting in raising the profile of the business and driving award-winning excellence.

Group Account Director Objectives:
- Run an account management team effectively, ensuring high quality service, delivering excellence on every level, from the day to day running to strategic planning and implementation and award winning creative
- Manage the finances and revenue of the team, growing and developing the strength and depth of the offering aiming to meet targets and exceed them
- Ensure that financial processes are run as accurately as possible and a clear pipeline is defined
- Recruit the best talent to deliver service and quality to clients
- Drive new business working with the CSD to create the strategy and focus and implement effectively to create results and opportunities
- Work existing and new networks to generate new business and grow existing client business
- Develop career progression for the teams with the CSD to ensure ambitions and abilities within the team are being achieved through appraisals, objectives and mentoring
- Present the business offering appropriately and with confidence to all audiences
- Ensure the business values are delivered through the team and communicated internally and externally

Requirements

If you're currently a Senior Account Director or Group Account Director looking for a fresh new challenge in an independent, commercially focused, forward thinking agency, please do get in touch as we would love to hear from you.

About the Company

AXIZ Consulting is based in the Dubai International Finance Centre and offers a bespoke, highly consultative recruitment service to local and international organisations across the GCC in both professional services and primary industries. Its founding two members come from a blend of executive search and contingent recruitment and they have taken some of the best practices of executive search and applied this to contingent recruitment in order to produce a service which offers maximum value to clients.

In order for us to build a successful company, we identified a core aim: to offer our clients a service that surpasses that of our competition. In order to do this, we have put into place both internal and external processes that ensure clients receive a consistent and professional service which gets the right results, in the right way.