AXON - Accounts Director - Creative Marketing

Account Director (Creative Marketing)

Role

At AXON Communications, we are looking for an experienced, dynamic, proactive, and responsible Account Director who would be able to hit the ground running. Within this role you will need to have experience working in Creative Marketing, holding senior account management responsibilities, supporting these at a strategic level in addition to the day-to-day management of team members. You will be a trusted advisor to your clients and alongside the Associate Director and the Senior Director of our Creative Marketing Practice, you will help build and shape the strategy for your accounts/brands, so we are pushing the highest creative standards of the whole of AXON upstream.

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Strong client liaison and strategic counsel in leading accounts
• Planning and management of multiple accounts, including development of communications programs, strategies, and creative tactics with senior support as needed
• Ensuring account profitability through sound financial management, including budget development, tracking, and reconciliation while adhering to brand strategy
• Building and developing cohesive client teams, instilling high standards to ensure exceptional quality is met when it comes to creative marketing
• Management, mentoring, and monitoring of the long-term career development of team members as well as playing a lead role on internal activities such as recruitment and delivering training
• Identifying and developing business opportunities with clients
• Collaborating with all offices across our AVENIR GLOBAL network

At AXON we actively encourage our staff to be involved in activities outside of their day-to-day work. Whether that’s being involved in our Social, Diversity and Inclusion, or CSR Electives, attending networking events, or running training sessions on topics in which they have a personal interest. We have a keen focus on training and development and, as a rough guide, suggest employees aim to complete 37.5 hours of learning a year. Whether that be through online learning, classroom training, or attending external events, that is 1 week a year dedicated to your development.

Candidates must have:

• At least 6+ years’ proven experience allowing you to demonstrate key competencies at this level, having worked with line manager(s) to address gaps and provide relevant opportunities.
• Experience as an account director or responsibilities of that role, from within an agency environment, focused on healthcare advertising/marketing.
• Exceptional strong verbal and written communication skills and be seen as a logical, confident “voice” to clients and internal stakeholders alike.
• Strong attention to detail and exemplary listening skills.
• A natural curiosity to you, being comfortable to challenge why we are doing something when appropriate.
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification – ideally from within a scientific or marketing/comms field.

Benefits

As well as the basic salary, great social events, and a culture of continual learning, our competitive benefits package includes but is not limited to:

• 5% employer pension contribution
• Private medical insurance (for you and your family)
• Critical Illness cover
• Income Protection cover
• Travel insurance (for you and your family)
• An annual “wellness” benefit after 3 month probation 
• Hybrid working options, 2 days in the office 3 days WFH
• 25 days’ holiday (with the ability for it to rise to a maximum of 30 days alongside length of service) – in addition to bank holidays
• Life assurance service insurance at 4x your salary
• Paid sabbaticals after 5 years’ service

AXON is proudly an AVENIR Global company.