Global Account Director

Who We Are

Be Grizzlee is an always-on studio that hyper-tailor’s content for all its partners. Through agile production and a disruptive core, our diverse talent delivers best-in-class experiences globally. We are a friendly and ambitious creative studio with the highest standards for our content output.

Summary

Our team is looking for a hungry and experienced Global Account Director to join us in our Los Angeles office to lead an exciting new relationship with a global client. In this role, you will provide strategic and executional leadership across all brand efforts, with a focus on operational excellence.

Our Los Angeles office is the hub servicing European markets for Expedia Group, and works in close collaboration with our Los Angeles hub, and clients and agency partners around the globe. This role presents the unique opportunity of working alongside the best talent within the entire Omnicom network. You will act as connective tissue between the clients and the best agencies within our network selected to bring projects to life.

The Global Account Director role will be reporting into the Group Global Account Director (line manager) and will work closely with the Project Management team. They will be responsible for driving the future vision, planning, and overseeing execution of all projects. In this role, you will serve as key leader to provide direction across global projects of different nature: brand, design, product launch, social, staff augmentation, etc.

This being a new client relationship, the Global Account Director will be key in establishing systematic ways of working, driving operational efficiencies across the board, and helping us bring a new and unique agency-client relationship model to life.

The day-to-day responsibilities include putting together project proposals, briefing creative and content curation teams (for example, Business Affairs, the Photo team, and so on); driving communications across teams; aligning with creative development and production schedules, presentations, and approval processes; and troubleshooting to create a smooth workflow for the cross-functional teams involved.

We’re looking for someone who is a natural leader, who is pumped about working with a global, culturally diverse and highly driven team for one of the best travel brands in the world. If you are inquisitive, collaborative, a great communicator and eager to be part of a team who is in it to win it – we’d love to hear from you.

The Work

• We lead teams that partner closely with Executive Leadership, Brand Integration, Integrated Production, Channel Leads, Creative, Design and Agency partners.
• We deliver new approaches to the planning, development, and execution of communications in our given brand or area expertise, including working to develop process, structure and staffing, resources, and external support.
• We enthusiastically build rapport, credibility, and influence, and we get results throughout the organization at all levels and across departments in a highly complex client organization. 
• We demonstrate creativity in problem solving, dynamic and unconventional thinking, and quick adaptation to new challenges. 
• We oversee projects of different nature to ensure the flawless development and execution of world-class communications.
• We act as leaders within the Agency Groupe to provide creative solutions across many categories, including product launch support, social campaigns, seasonal campaigns, roadmap planning, and platform development.
• We work with key partner Agencies to ensure alignment on key initiatives. 
• You will lead and manage a team, inspiring them to grow, develop, and create extraordinary work.

Who will thrive in this role?

• Unrelenting ambition to create smart, simple, iconic work.
• Passion for the advertising and marketing industry with a keen eye for current trends, culture, and emerging markets.
• A hungry, flexible and resourceful individual with strong attention to detail and a drive for excellence in delivery.
• Someone who loves to collaborate with different team members inside and outside the organization to get the job done.
• A strong verbal and written communicator, who can, over time, find the right balance of knowing when to over-communicate vs. when to keep things concise. 

Key qualifications

• You have 8 to 10 years of experience working on global brands, preferably at a creatively driven ad agency or in-house marketing communications department.
• You can deliver marketing communication goals in your brand or area of expertise, and you are able to prioritize efforts based on business need.
• You have superlative writt