Work with your direct team and dentsu Ireland wide colleagues to deliver best in class planning solutions that matches your client needs.
Job Title:
Account Director
Job Description:
Client Planning
1. Attend client briefing meetings and distil from the briefing sessions the clientchallenges and the role for dentsu services to deliver thesechallenges.
2. Construct overall media strategy in answer to the client brief (getting support fromBusiness Director and Strategy team if required)
3. Translate client brief into detailed internal brief (using CCS Planner) which is used tobrief all DAN specialist areas: AV, Offline, Display, Paid Social, PPC,Partnerships
4. Be the main contact with specialists as they ask questions around thebrief.
5. Collate the specialist media plans into an overall composite plan with accompanyingrationale (client presentation if relevant). Liaise with all specialists to ensure allmedia plans areaccurate.
6. Oversee any changes of strategy and media plan between client andspecialists
7. Owner of client composite plan encompassing all relevant activity for a client(multiple brands etc)
Client Management
8. Be the main point of contact for clients and can understand client requirements,assess if it is within scope (liaising with BD if required), and decide the most effectiveway to answer the question.
9. Be able to answer client questions on all specialist areas (PPC, Display, Social,AV, Partnerships) and only involve specialists with clients when there is a real need todo so.
10. Manage PCA process – delivering a PCA to the client, working with your direct team(AM, AE) and all specialist.
11. Deliver strategic review of competitive activity, QBR presentations.
Team
12. Ensuring that teams are skilled up and resourced appropriately and supporting withup-skilling as required
13. Ownership of delivery of Performance Development Reviews including developmentplans for direct reports; proactive identification and management of performanceissues.
14. Operational Finance
15. Responsible for accurate and timely invoicing to ourclients.
16. Responsibility for working with AMs and specialists to ensure media plans match MXand invoices areaccurate
17. Delivering effective budget control forclients
0 1. Must have:
18. Delivers through others
19. Influential
20. Great understanding of the array of services that dentsu provides to clients
21. Ability to brief effectively and challenge responses
22. Builds credibility & client focused
23. Makes relationships count
24. Mobilises
25. Strategic rigour and viewpoint
26. Quality decision making
27. Commercial acumen
28. EQ & IQ
02. Key Experiences:
29. Strong marketing, media and communications concepts, models, skills, practices,tools, frameworks, etc
30. Strong understanding of holistic digital media concepts, propositions, Dentsu Media digitalservices
31. Lead medium client / team
32. Experience across relevant media, products and services
33. Strong planning experience
What can we do for you?
With clearly set objectives there is unprecedented potential for career progression, with a highproportion of our roles being filled by internal promotions. Not only will you be part of theiProspect Ireland family,you willbe part of a much bigger Network within Dentsu Aegis Networkglobally, and internal mobility across the globe is actively encouraged.
What are we like as a company?
Drive, digital-obsessed and excited by what we do — that's us. We live to get the best results forour clients, especially if it means doing something no-one's done before. We think as a team.
With co-workers, with clients, with media owners, with our fellow Dentsu Aegis agencies — wework together, creating online experiences people really connect with.
Work-life balance
34. Because we hire great people, you'll find like-minded sorts in every corner of ourorganisation. So, it's no surprise that our teams oftenhang outtogether outside work.There's always something coming up on the socialcalendar!
35. We offer competitive salaries and benefits including; pension plans, income protection, lifeassurance, discounted healthcare and travelinsurance;
36. You’ll enjoy lots of cool perks including free fresh fruit delivered daily, onsite, fullysubsidisedbarista, and all types of teas and coffee in the kitchen and around theoffice;
37. We strongly support a work-life balance and encourage agile and flexible working across thebusiness;
38. Our working parents are eligible for paid family friendly leave once they are with us morethan a year and we offer a phased return to work to support theirreturn;
39. We also offer lifestyle benefits such as Christmas vouchers, discounted travel insurance, agroup discount scheme, further educational assistance, employee assistanceprogramme,company phone after probation, bike to work scheme and TaxSaver tickets in addition to aChristmas SavingsScheme;
40. You always get your birthday off, Company closure days at Christmas and Easter and we havea great holiday allowance scheme allowing you to buy additional leave at the beginning of theyeartoo;
41. Diversity, Inclusion and Wellness is SO important to us and there is always an event withinthese areas on the Horizon.