Role Focus:

This role leads, plans and manages the activity of multiple luxury beauty & wellbeing clients, while adding vision and momentum to PURPLE’s business. The Account Director is a critical client partner role that can demonstrate leadership, strategic direction, accountability and business acumen and supports their fellow Directors by building a strong team. Success of this role is seen through creating an environment for great work, managing expectations, responsible for the delivery of services, profitability of new clients and client retention, while maintaining key client relationships and delivery for best overall strategy of our clients.

Responsibilities

• Understands and drives the strategic vision of PURPLE and its brand to the media, general public and external audiences globally.
• Manage projects from initial brief through to concept and final execution, when it comes to project initiatives, research, proposals, strategies and following up on new business leads for the division.
• Maintain awareness and control client relation situations in an effective and profitable manner.
• Working with Beauty team and Managers, coordinate staffing requirements, delegating roles and responsibilities as well as staff briefing ahead of events.
• Have initiative or ability to partner with the Directors to bring in new business for the divisions.
• Curating reporting materials for clients – agendas, monthly reporting, call recaps, etc.
• Devise, post event press strategies, press release and engage media partners where relevant.
• Work closely with the social medial team and brief on all events and launch initiatives.
• Proactively keep abreast of industry trends and share knowledge with multiple departments
• Mentor the team to maximize individual’s growth, strengths and opportunities of each team member.

Skills and Experience

• Previous agency experience essential with an understanding of how an agency is structured.
• Previous experience of managing and leading a team essential.
• Strong knowledge of luxury beauty client needs while, film, tv, fashion, art, design and influencer talent that resonate with both local and global markets.
• Excellent industry contacts with suppliers, PR’s, production companies, agents, diarists, stylists, VIPs and photographers.
• Ability to work efficiently in a high pressured and fast paced environment.
• Exceptional presentation, written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to be flexible with working hours.
• Have driven and embedded cultural change across a function or business.
• Proactive, with an ability to problem solve and comprehend issues in the context of the bigger picture and business impact.
• Fearless in challenging and strong willed in driving change.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 5-7 years of proven success in client management
• Familiarity with sales performance metrics
• Proven track record of client and team success
• Strong negotiation, presentation and communication skills

Job Title: Account Director, Beauty

Report to: Senior Account Director

Place of Work: London, UK

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