Account Director

September 7

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Description

• Grizzly is looking for an Account Director with 8+ years of agency experience to work on a fast-moving and rapidly growing portfolio of accounts. • Reporting to the COO, the Account Director will be expected to build and nurture relationships with senior level client leadership. • This person is excellent in building strong, trusting and lasting relationships. • This person is an expert on the client business, providing a strong vision, perspective and direction aimed at solving our client’s largest business challenges. • The individual is viewed as an agency expert, and is continually advancing agency reputation through thought leadership and relationships. • They will oversee multiple creative projects and internal/external partner relationships simultaneously. • The Account Director will demonstrate strong leadership, collaboration, and communication while working closely across multiple cross-functional agency teams, proactively solving against creative and logistical challenges. • The Account Director is a confidante and senior counselor for clients, driving strategic relationship building at all levels of organizations.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years experience in hands-on account management and executive level relationship building, must have agency experience. • Most comfortable when client facing and engaging multiple groups within the client’s organization when leading coordination for larger projects. • Interest in and aptitude for creative business and marketing solutions. • Strong selling and negotiation skills. • A deep understanding of the creative project process and the ability to monitor progress for timely execution. • Ability to establish interpersonal, lasting relationships with clients that transcend our scope of work. • Comprehensive knowledge of clients’ business, goals and objectives. • Ability to lead and win complex new business pitches. • Excellent judgment with the ability to proactively identify issues and/or obstacles and effectively create solutions. • Proven leadership skills and the ability to champion project team morale. • Superior ability to work in a collaborative manner, both with internal teams and clients. • Ability to make sound decisions, think strategically, problem solve, multi-task while remaining hyper-focused on the details. • Must possess good organization, meeting management, time management, and excellent written and verbal skills. • Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills. • Excellent presentation skills that encompass clear, compelling communications.; excellent presentation creation skills - copy/design. • Ability to manage multiple business initiatives in an entrepreneurial environment. • Ability to operate with significant autonomy and discretion. • Expert knowledge of all functional agency departments, capabilities and service areas. • Deep understanding of a wide range of industries, markets and brands, and what it takes to stand out and service them.