Account Director – Columbus Based
The Account Director is responsible for inspiring the agency team and our clients in developing creative and effective ideas and work for their brands.
Summary
The Account Director will act as a leader of a Top Tier account. They are responsible for inspiring the agency team and our clients in developing creative and effective ideas and work for their brands.
The best candidate will be a curious big thinker with a strategic mindset able to nurture longstanding relationships and able to manage diverse and fast-paced brands. They are an effective communicator and a trusted partner with strong collaboration skills. Experience with omni-channel planning preferred.
Responsibilities
Client Partner & Business Leader
Develop and keep strong relationships with client partners and internal stakeholders to ensure relationships and work are thriving and growing.
Maintain a deep understanding of a client’s industry, business and customer needs.
Champion the best work and create an environment for the best work, both internally and externally, to drive the best business recommendations and results.
Be the leader of the agency’s financial stewardship of your accounts, ensuring financial health of the agency and responsible management of client’s resources (with your Project Management partner).
Take responsibility for setting goals for each business (internally and with clients), tracking and managing them (in partnership with your discipline peers in strategy, creative and media).
Partner with key discipline peers in a collaborative environment to bring forward-thinking ideas to our clients’ businesses.
Activate and lead agency’s integrated talent and resources to meet client needs, including identifying opportunities to pursue organic growth of our relationships.
Lead and position brands.
Doe-Anderson
Manage direct reports on projects, providing career guidance, feedback and coaching aimed at individual and team growth.
Mentor and be a role model for developing talent in the agency.
Be an example of and champion Doe-Anderson’s values and business goals, whether on your client business or outside it.
Participate in new business, as appropriate and needed.
Reports to: EVP, Managing Director
Qualifications
7+ years of marketing communications industry experience, ideally some on agency side.
Driven to create, inspire and support the best work possible.
Healthcare/healthcare adjacent experience preferred.
Live in or relocate to the Columbus, Ohio, area. We have a hybrid/flex work policy that respects our employees’ personal lives and allows for flexibility regarding time in the office.
About Doe-Anderson
You know the cliché about a company being “like a family?” Well, sometimes clichés become clichés because they’re true. In the case of Doe-Anderson, you would be joining an organization that’s been nurturing careers (and the people attached to them) for well over a century. We like to think it’s because you can carve your own path here, supported by management and your peers. We try hard to keep the corporate politics to a minimum and the self-reliance to the max. That may be why almost half our employees are shareholders in the company – and why people tend to stick around nearly three times the ad agency average. There’s something about the place that makes it hard to leave.
At Doe-Anderson, we have a long history of creating work that, well, works. To do this, we strive to reflect the world we live in and speak to every day. Building belief in brands begins with believing in and celebrating one another as individual members of a diverse and inclusive team.
We will never disqualify a potential team member based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or veteran or disability status.
The Perks
Summer Fridays
From Memorial Day to Labor Day, we close-up shop at 3:00pm every Friday. Because making the most of every summer makes us better at what we do. Get what you gotta do done (well), and go have fun.
Work-from-anywhere Weeks
For four weeks a year, you can choose to work from literally anywhere in the world you want to. When? That’s up to you. Where is, too. Like the name says – anywhere. The farther flung, the more culturally enriching, the better.
Agency Recharge Weeks
For a full week in the summer and winter, we all close our laptops (and the agency closes its doors) to rest and recharge without worrying about what we might be missing at work. That’s in addition to your standard vacation time.
Totally Employee Owned
We’re 100% employee owned. No holding company or board of directors to answer to (or pay out profits to). Once you’ve put down roots here, you can buy in and be an owner alongside the nearly half of our employees who are, too.
About Columbus
Buckeyes. Bridges. And beer hotels. These are just a few of the things that make our second home, Columbus, Ohio, one of America’s most engaging cities. Home to both the state capital and one of the country’s most storied public universities, Columbus offers a dynamic blend of youthful energy, progressive spirit and good old-fashioned Midwestern attitude (or lack thereof). Even The New York Times was duly impressed, recently naming Columbus one of their “52 Places To Go” around the world. Our local outpost is smack dab in the middle of the Short North, one of the many vibrant neighborhoods within a few minutes of downtown. We encourage you to come pay us a visit; wearing scarlet and gray is optional.
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