Account Director

We’re looking for an ambitious Account Director to join our Amsterdam team and play a lead role in spearheading our rapid growth. Edelman is a full-service communications agency that drives meaningful conversation for ambitious brands. With deep expertise in strategy, media relations, creative and production, we bring campaigns to life across all channels with a focus on ideas that are earned at heart, and social by design. This year has been the biggest yet for Edelman globally – with a record breaking 16 Cannes Lions including the Titanium Lion.   As Account Director you will not only lead award-winning account teams driving work for top-tier clients, you will be closely involved in driving pitches and new business opportunities that will further define our next chapter of growth. Your day-to-day will be a mix of client service, creativity and international collaboration across our many Edelman offices worldwide. We’re part of the largest independent communications agency in the world with extended teams and services across 60+ offices globally.  

Role and responsibilities:

• Client Leadership- You are experienced running, overseeing and developing (multi-market) campaigns for a portfolio of clients. Building trusted client relationships and successfully leading projects from brief to execution. 
• New Business–You have an eye for identifying areas of growth and are confident leading new business pitches including developing RFI / RFP proposals and formal pitch meetings. 
• Senior Counsel – You’re the trusted sparring partner and sounding board to clients comfortable guiding and advising on communications and marketing including PR, digital, social and content creation in collaboration with our expert teams. 
• Creative Excellence – You’re a driving force to stand out client programmes and integrated creative campaigns; with experience working and advising across all touchpoints.  
• Team leadership–It’s your second nature to lead a portfolio of accounts and manage multidisciplinary teams, developing team members and stimulating personal and professional development and growth at all times. 
• Financial forecasting & management – You’re experienced forecasting, planning and reporting on finances, ensuring your accounts run smoothly and on-budget.  

What we’re looking for:

• Strong, proven track record of media-relations,-expertise and significant strategic local/global communications work with creativity and earned at its core.
• Proven client service experience in managing multi-level stakeholders, complex projects from scoping to delivery and reporting.  
• Experience working with and maintaining significant budgets, pulling together detailed budget plans, and demonstrating an understanding of client financial models, targets and financial reporting. 
• Proven ability in identifying areas of growth and opportunity for clients as well as successfully leading pitch processes from RFI/RFP to pitch presentations. 
• Proven leadership skills with the ability to inspire and unite teams behind a central concept, with experience of successfully selling in those concepts to clients and seeing them through to execution. 
• Excellent writing skills, including experience writing and pitching press (releases) as well as the ability to provide clear and comprehensive feedback on documents to junior members. 
• Bonus points if you bring experience working on brands in one or more of the following industries: FMCG, (Consumer) Tech and Health. 

Edelman is a global communications firm that partners with businesses and organizations to evolve, promote and protect their brands and reputations. Our 6,000 people in more than 60 offices deliver communications strategies that give our clients the confidence to lead and act with certainty, earning the trust of their stakeholders. Our honors include the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for PR; Advertising Age’s 2019 A-List; the Holmes Report’s 2018 Global Digital Agency of the Year; and, five times, Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work. Since our founding in 1952, we have remained an independent, family-run business. Edelman owns specialty companies Edelman Data & Intelligence (DxI) and United Entertainment Group (entertainment, sports, lifestyle).
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