Role: Client Leadership Global Account Director

Reports to: Global Senior Partner

Role context:

Are you an ambitious person who loves to learn? Are you a creative problem solver who wants to build something better? Do you want to work with collaborative clients?  Do you want to work for a client dedicated to Responsible Advertising and sustainable media planning?

We have an exciting account director role within our global client leadership team working across one of the world’s leading CPG accounts, Danone.

You will have the entrepreneurial freedom to manage your brands and projects, but you will be coached and supported by a seasoned client partner.  You will also have the support of a manager as a direct report, plus a fantastic supportive team.

Core responsibilities:

• Lead the global integrated comms planning process for some of Danone’s most iconic brands
• Collaborate with Team Flow strategy teams as well external agency partners to deliver global brand strategies and helping local teams adapt to their markets 
• Build strong relationships with local market teams and client-side marketing teams
• Identify best-in-class work across the network, elevate to global clients, and roll out across all markets; collaborate with strategy team in build out and local market education / roll out
• Reinforce best practices and help local markets implement them into their everyday planning / activation
• Identify areas of opportunity to further the client’s business (i.e. test & learns for retail media)

Person Specification:

• Proactive, solution orientated and excited by a challenge
• Delights clients and enjoys collaborating with them
• Knows how to craft and evaluate a media plan
• Experience working with multiple markets
• Very familiar with digital media landscape; ideally has digital buying or planning experience
• Comfortable working cross-disciplines – working with creative, ecommerce, PR, experience agency partners
• 4+ years of management experience
• Enjoys telling a compelling story, building PowerPoints, and knows how to work within a PowerPoint template
• Knows how to make a pivot table in excel

About Team Flow

What’s in a name? In physics, flow is ​the simple and continuous movement of ​a liquid or gas. In psychology, flow state is where performance and productivity are optimized by having the right capabilities and conditions in place. ​Team Flow for Danone is about both. Simple and continuous collaboration​ and peak performance and productivity.

Team Flow is powered by different op cos within GroupM in every market, all driven by a set of principles : simplicity, consistency, transparency and fluidity and united by a global team or network of excellence.

Core attributes we’re looking for are:

-          SIMPLIFIERS: Those who can distil the complex

-          DOERS: Those who walk the walk

-          CODIFIERS: Those who see the opportunity to share and scale

-          LEARNERS: Those with a natural curiosity 

-          THOSE WHO LOVE WHAT THEY DO!

About Wavemaker

We always believe there is a better way to grow our client and our people. We do this by positively provoking growth for our clients and people. We work with clients to help them grow and shape their consumers’ brand decisions and experiences through media, content, and technology.

We have one single attitude – Positive Provocation.

Our name is our mission and our method. To make waves, you need to be provocative, even fearless. We always make sure we have each other’s backs through our inclusive culture.

We do our best work for brave brands and people who want to be challenged to go further and faster. We know it’s not easy, but if it’s in you, we will get it out of you.

Our attitude of Positive Provocation is enabled by:

• The deep Knowledge we have of our clients’ business
• The confidence to Challenge what’s gone before
• The Support to go further than we thought possible

We are a part of GroupM, WPP’s global media investment management company. Discover more on wavemakerglobal.com, Twitter and LinkedIn