We are looking for a Junior Account Director with strong strategic and commercial capabilities, able to lead client relationships and deliver high-quality campaigns from planning to execution. The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking, project management, and creative oversight with a proactive approach to business growth and account profitability. They should be confident working cross-functionally, building trusted client partnerships, and driving projects independently to successful outcomes.
Agency Experience (Required)
Proven experience working within an advertising or creative agency environment is essential for this role.
Ability to understand and articulate strategic offers, products, frameworks, and sustainable communication strategies to clients. Skilled at writing smaller project and task briefs, ensuring all developed work meets client objectives, and providing clear guidance on strategy, creative, and design development.
Lead the delivery and execution of campaigns from planning to final execution, ensuring the highest standards of work every time.
Manage budgets effectively to ensure account profitability. Proactively identify opportunities to expand or extend existing client projects and ensure all financial processes are met throughout the project lifecycle (including opening job numbers, raising estimates, and securing client POs).
Actively foster and maintain strong, trusted relationships with clients, internal teams, and cross-functional partners.
Stay abreast of relevant industry news, market trends, and updates relating to clients and their peers.
Agency Experience (Required)
Proven experience working within an advertising or creative agency environment is essential for this role.
Ability to build and maintain strong, trusted relationships internally, with clients, and with external partners. Skilled at understanding client needs and translating them into clear, concise, and effective proposals and briefs.
Ability to understand, contribute to, and actively participate in strategic discussions and decision-making processes.
Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to identify business opportunities. Strong awareness of project and account profitability, with the ability to develop small- to medium-sized scopes of work. Proactive contribution to revenue growth, financial projections, and the timely pursuit of new business opportunities.
Ensure the smooth delivery of projects by effectively managing agency processes and enabling the highest standard of work.
Clear, concise, and effective communication with clients, internal teams, and external stakeholders.
Ability to quickly resolve client and internal project issues with a solution-oriented mindset, proactivity, and a positive, can-do attitude.
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Work within a highly motivated team in an innovative and rapidly growing global company
- Opportunity to have a direct impact and be a key part of the growth and development of the business and the team
- Competitive salary in line with, experience and skills
- Competitive benefits including flexible working, 25 days holiday and two volunteering days off and the day off for your Birthday!
- An opportunity to participate in the Anthesis Employee Participation Plan (EPP), an industry-pioneering employee incentive plan that allows all employees to be rewarded for the growth in the equity value of Anthesis.
- Cooperative, supportive and open working atmosphere.
Our commitment to building and maintaining a diverse workforce
Anthesis has clients across all industry sectors and supports some of the world’s largest multinationals such as Reckitt, Cisco, Tesco, The North Face, and Target. The company brings together 1,300+ experts operating across 22 countries and 44 office locations with offices in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, the Middle East, Netherlands, the Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the US.
We encourage all employees to contribute their ideas, perspectives, and experiences to help us create an inclusive and equitable workplace. By embracing diversity and providing equal opportunities, we believe we can drive innovation, foster creativity, and achieve our shared goals. So, if you’re ready to be a part of something truly extraordinary, then we want you! Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.
Together, we can continue to build a diverse and inclusive workforce where everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed and thrive.
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