Account Director (PR)

About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments, and other organisations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance public services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation-led company with 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise, and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes through our broad range of services, solutions, and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X, and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners, and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com. Accenture Song is one of the most innovative and fastest-growing teams at Accenture. Combining the feel of a start-up and the advantages of being a global player, Accenture Song truly has a diverse and multi-talented team. Accenture Song is the leading digital transformation agency in the world that can deliver true end-to-end digital services. About the role We are seeking an Account Director to work on a portfolio of various corporate clients and brands. The successful candidate must have extensive experience working on Earned Media clients and campaigns. It is imperative that the successful candidate keeps abreast with all Earned Media, PR and Influencer trends, within industry best practices. Responsibilities ( include but are not limited to): Senior client lead and team lead: interpret, develop, and manage strategy for clients and ensures that all plans are delivered and are in line with scope of work Manage client expectations and service delivery by being a focal point for day to day interaction and take responsibility for the delivery of exceptional work. Build and manage client business and relationships, taking ultimate responsibility for client relationships with senior client contacts as well as senior business contacts and be a strategic business partner Understand the client s strategy and agency process to deliver efficiently and to the highest quality Ensure all work produced by team is of the highest standard and demonstrates creativity, attention to detail, contemporary thinking, use of new approaches and links to overall strategy and supports clients business objectives Actively ensures that team members grow and develop into strong earned media professionals, through growth opportunities, upskilling, delegation, accountability, and mentoring Responsible for overall health and happiness of client team Deliver content and solutions that speak to full PESO model Paid, Earned, Social and Owned Manage all contractual and financial aspects of client relationship including scope of work, client KPIs, team resourcing and hour allocation, budget tracking and management including renegotiating annual retainer increase Manage profitability of team, over- and under-servicing trends in team and proactively manages to correct Ensure financial admin (Workbook) is running smoothly and accurately Actively looks for opportunities to sell-in new projects, services or organically grow clients in other ways Lead and participates in new business pitches Support your Business Unit Director in driving and growing Earned media through new business, new products and new thinking Ability to manage different personalities and always strive to get the best out of each individual Keep abreast of industry (Earned Media) trends in order to add additional value to your client's business Qualifications/Experience/Skill: Relevant tertiary qualification in PR and or Business Communications Minimum 8 years working experience in a PR Agency or in a similar environment Proficient in Office 365 i.e. Word/Excel/MS Teams/PowerPoint etc. Traditional and Digital Earned media experience is essential Well versed in Digital A good command of the English language (both verbal and written) Knowledgeable and proficient in at least one communication area e.g. media relations, influencer relations, content Strong presentation skills Strong administrative and organisational skills. Strong numerical skills financial budget management experience Strong multitasking skills (ability to work on more than one client at any given time) Personal Attributes: Team player with the ability to collaborate with the wider teams Ability to remain calm in a fast paced environment Creative out of the box thinker People focused including being approachable, emotionally intelligent, empathetic and compassionate Proactive Resilient Deadline and solution driven Meticulous with attention to detail Other: comfortable to work on site (at the office) Equal Employment Opportunity Statement All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law. 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