Group Account Director [Retail / Sales Promotion] – W1 Agency – to £75k /JW3550

Group Account Director [Retail / Sales Promotion] - W1 Agency - to £75k  

Superb off Oxford St agency seeks a talented Group Account Director to direct a progressive retail client and manage a growing team.

The agency focuses on three key areas to help connect people with brands: consumer insights, gained from data understanding, research and user testing; creativity; and accountability.

Your role will be Group Account Director of the agency's retail division - a division that offers multi-channel retail solutions to a major, much loved, household brand.

Under the proposition of "always on retail" the agency wish to develop a truly data driven multi-channel retail offer which plays to the strengths of the current client relationship and of the wider agency's resources - specifically the ever increasing need for on and off line solutions to the retail marketing brief.

Reporting into the agency's CEO, you will run and develop the Retail Division and manage the account team, specifically taking on the strategic responsibility for the account.

Principle Accountabilities:

• Team development.
• Senior client relationships.
• Development of multi channel proposition, strategic direction and planning.
• Budgetary and financial control.

You will lead from the front and create a supportive team to work across a variety of projects and campaigns in the retail market including POS, in-store and sponsorship activities to produce outstanding and creative solutions to develop and grow the business.

You are an ambitious, focussed individual wanting to achieve outstanding results for the client, agency and the team.  An established front-leader with strong Retail/BTL/SP experience, you will be able to prove excellent retail skills, good business acumen, and team building achievements. 

The key competencies for this role are passion for team building and creativity, outstanding brand planning and strategic skills with a hands-on, ego-free, management style and love of working in the fast-paced retail market. 

A fantastic opportunity in a truly progressive environment awaits the successful candidate.