A leading independent, employee-owned global branding agency, known for creating distinctive brands across FMCG, consumer, food & drink and lifestyle. The agency combines brand strategy, identity, packaging and innovation, partnering with major global brands

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop senior client relationships, becoming a trusted partner and understanding their wider brand and commercial ambitions.
• Oversee complex branding, identity, packaging and innovation projects from initial brief through to successful delivery.
• Partner closely with Strategy and Creative teams, ensuring work is strategically strong, creatively ambitious and commercially effective.
• Take ownership of scopes, budgets, timelines and profitability, ensuring accounts are managed effectively and commercially.
• Identify opportunities to grow existing client relationships, expanding scopes and developing longer-term partnerships.
• Lead client meetings, presentations and challenging conversations with confidence, while supporting and mentoring more junior members of the Client Services team.

Key Skills:

• Significant Account Director-level experience within a branding, design or strategically led creative agency.
• Strong experience working with FMCG and consumer brands, ideally across brand identity and packaging.
• Excellent senior client relationship skills, with the confidence to advise, challenge and influence key stakeholders.
• Strong commercial awareness with experience managing budgets, scopes, profitability and account growth.
• A thorough understanding of the branding process, from strategy and positioning through creative development, packaging and activation.
• Collaborative, ambitious and highly organised, with the ability to lead teams, inspire confidence and maintain momentum across multiple projects and accounts.