Account Director – 12m FTC

About This Opportunity

Our talent team is representing a confidential financial services organization seeking an Account Director for a 12-month fixed-term contract in London. This is a hands-on senior role managing client relationships and creative delivery across brand campaigns, digital content, thought leadership, and marketing collateral within a regulated environment.

You'll own the client partnership and delivery engine, balancing strategic thinking with operational discipline. This role demands confidence managing multiple stakeholders, navigating compliance workflows, and maintaining commercial accountability across a high-volume creative portfolio.

Responsibilities

Client Partnership & Account Leadership

• Serve as primary point of contact for the client's marketing and communications team
• Translate business priorities into clear creative briefs and studio direction
• Chair status meetings, monthly business reviews, and strategic planning sessions
• Manage client expectations through competing priorities and regulated timelines
• Proactively identify opportunities to grow the scope of the partnership

Project Management & Delivery

• Lead end-to-end delivery from brief intake through production, approvals, and final output across digital, social, print, events, and long-form content
• Maintain full pipeline visibility, managing SLA frameworks, capacity risks, and project status
• Consolidate client feedback before it reaches creative teams
• Build proactive project roadmaps supporting monthly planning and forecasting

Compliance & Governance

• Manage compliance and legal sign-off processes with clear audit trails
• Ensure all projects requiring regulatory review are flagged, tracked, and closed out properly

Commercial Accountability

• Own account-level budget management: forecasting, purchase orders, spend tracking, and monthly financial reporting
• Source and coordinate external resources to match delivery capacity with demand
• Flag commercial risks early and identify revenue growth opportunities

What We're Looking For

• Senior account management experience within a creative agency, in-house studio, or content production environment, working directly with marketing leadership
• Confidence managing multiple stakeholders with competing priorities, including the ability to challenge and hold senior stakeholders accountable constructively
• Familiarity with regulated industries such as financial services or insurance, including compliance workflows, legal approval chains, and audit requirements
• Fluency managing high-volume, multi-channel creative portfolios with tight deadlines and competing briefs
• Hands-on experience with SLA frameworks, tiered briefing processes, and feedback management protocols
• Experience coordinating external delivery partners alongside internal creative teams
• Experience owning account-level budgets: purchase orders, spend reconciliation, and financial reporting to senior stakeholders
• Confidence identifying and communicating commercial risks early
• Working knowledge of AI tools that support planning, reporting, or brief analysis in a project management context
• A structured, adaptable approach to complex problem-solving, able to break multi-stakeholder challenges into clear steps and maintain focus when priorities shift

Formal degrees are welcome but not required. Equivalent experience gained through work, study, volunteering, or self-directed learning is valued.

How We Work With You

Candidates apply directly through Get A Job.ai. Our recruiter will conduct an initial screen to understand your experience and qualifications. We then submit qualified candidates to our client for consideration. Please do not contact the client directly during this process—all communication flows through our team to ensure a professional and coordinated experience.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on your experience and qualifications.

Equal Opportunity

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