Agency :
One Green Bean
Job Description :
PR Account Director, One Green Bean
Location: London
Reports to: Associate Business Director
Direct reports: Account Managers/ Senior Account Executives
About One Green Bean
We’re a creative communications agency specialising in PR, social media and events. Our sole purpose in life is to deliver insightful ideas that have big commercial impact. We create branded initiatives designed to get press coverage and spark positive conversations. We do this because we believe brands should entertain and add value to consumers’ lives. Our job is making content contagious, and we've been getting the job done since 2007.
We play in a unique agency sweet spot - an agile, independently spirited, with the backing and fire power of one of the world’s largest communications groups, Havas.
Our clients reap the benefits of a hands-on senior team and an extended network, that includes offices in 22 countries worldwide and the likes of Universal Music, Canal Plus & Vivendi as part of the extended family.
Our clients often call us ‘a big little agency’ and it sums us up perfectly. Our current clients include Domino’s, Tesco Mobile, David Lloyd Clubs, and many more.
We pride ourselves on having the best people who live and breathe our four simple values:
We See It Through
We Step Up and Stay Close
We Trust Judgement and Act with Courage
We Have Fun All the Way
We are looking for a strong Account Director (AD) with experience working across consumer clients who can direct, manage, develop and key accounts within the agency. As an AD we would like you to help develop and maintain strong client relationships, take responsibility for delivering client expectations and driving forward integrated communications programmes.
We’re looking for someone who has a creative flair for storytelling and can shape a story that lands in editorial media, and that can direct and manage accounts, teams and internal programmes with a high degree of independence.
Delivering outstanding work and winning the trust of our clients is essential, as it helps us to continue to raise the bar of our creative work, while driving continued growth.
Alongside delivering brilliant work, you would work closely with the senior team to achieve the agency’s exciting vision and values across new business.
As an AD you should be able to routinely provide leadership in the following areas:
As an AD we would like you to direct a portfolio of clients, working with the senior management team to:
Strategically respond to briefs and ongoing programme management, overseeing implementation, evaluation, budgets and timelines
Demonstrate a solid understand of research and strategy, refining key insights to shape client strategies, effectively interrogate briefs and identify a strong brand narrative and strategic proposition
Manage client teams to exceed expectations in terms of PR programmes, integrated PR and social programmes, evaluations, timelines, budgets, creativity and quality with the support of the wider team as necessary
As an AD your priority will be delivering outstanding work and growing our existing client portfolio. In addition, we would like you to:
As an AD, you will help us:
Mentor and empower your team (Senior Account Managers, Account Managers) to develop sophisticated cultural intelligence capabilities, fostering an agency-wide culture of proactive trendspotting and insightful application.
Essential Skills and Behaviours
Contract Type :
Permanent
Here at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.
