Freelance Account Director


London

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A global branding agency based in London, combining strategy and creativity to build distinctive, ambitious brands. Their work spans a broad range of sectors, with a bold, commercially focused approach designed to create meaningful business impact.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead day-to-day client relationships, acting as a trusted and confident senior partner.
  • Quickly get under the skin of clients’ businesses, brands, challenges and ambitions.
  • Take ownership of branding projects from brief through to final delivery.
  • Create clear, inspiring briefs and partner closely with Strategy and Creative teams.
  • Manage multiple workstreams, scopes, budgets, timings and resources effectively.
  • Anticipate challenges and provide solutions before they impact the client or creative work.
  • Identify opportunities to add value, strengthen relationships and grow existing accounts.
  • Bring senior-level guidance and stability, integrating quickly into the agency and client teams.

Key Skills:

  • Strong Account Director experience within a leading, top tier branding or design agency.
  • Excellent client leadership skills with the confidence to advise and constructively challenge senior stakeholders.
  • Deep understanding of the branding process across strategy, identity and implementation.
  • Commercially astute, with strong experience managing budgets, scopes and account profitability.
  • Highly organised and comfortable overseeing multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
  • Excellent communicator with strong briefing, presentation and relationship-building skills.
  • Proactive, solutions-focused and able to hit the ground running within a freelance environment.
  • Collaborative and creatively minded, with high standards and a low-ego approach.