Account Director - Ogilvy Toronto

Job Description

Overview / Description

Our Account Directors are valued advisors and partners to our senior brand managers and marketing/category directors. They identify and champion great creative work, strong business results and the management of flawless delivery, while identifying and inspiring new work streams and solutions that lead to client growth by collaborating with, and drawing on the expertise of the Ogilvy’s vast resources and capabilities. They are exceptional leaders of teams who inspire others to act courageously.

Responsibilities / Responsabilités

Here’s what you’ll be doing to lead Agency and Client growth

• Managing a client’s business or portfolio of integrated accounts with a target of ~$1MM in revenue
• Partnering with Ogilvy’s capability experts to deliver integrated solutions, identify new business opportunities, scope of work and revenue
• Immersing yourself in the essential dynamics, strategies, and drivers of your client’s business
• Managing creative and messaging in a complex, fragmented media landscape and bringing together cohesive programs and audience driven decisions that generate results for clients
• Foreseeing opportunities and formulating plans to manage and exploit them to drive/extend the business
• Putting clients first, interfacing regularly with all client levels and constantly hunting for solutions and big ideas that are innovative and relevant
• Demonstrating strong collaboration skills with internal teams, using Agency resources
• Building strong, collaborative and trusted relationships with creative and strategic partners
• Effectively navigating teams when there are conflicting priorities
• Coaching, involving and inspiring the growth and development of junior Agency staff via providing consistent feedback, training and growth opportunities
• Acting as an open and willing resource to team members in assessing ideas and directions, and providing guidance to push further
• Monitoring and communicating POV on current marketing and industry issues
• Demonstrating responsibility and accountability for overall agency performance and flawless delivery

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of experience, including 3-5 years of supervisory experience
• Digitally fluent
• An appreciation for how great work gets done and a commitment to ensuring creative excellence/output
• Strong communication skills, particularly with oral presentations
• Insatiably curious, a lifelong learner
• Authentically passionate about great work, your team and our business
• Diplomatic and Empathetic leadership
• A good listener, someone who reads people and those in a room well (and adapts their style and response accordingly)