Account Director
Chicago, IL - USA
Job Summary
A global creative constellation built for whats nextuniting the human vision of the Leo Burnett network with the innovation of Publicis Worldwide.
Leo is HI AI: Human Insight Human Ideas Human Impactsupercharged by the data and technology to move faster go further and deliver everywhere.
Leo brings together 15000 people across 90 countries combining global scale with creative firepower to drive outsized impact for brands.
Account Director
Were looking for an Account Director to lead the daytoday stewardship of a major CPG brand within a dynamic integrated agency environment. This role is for a strategic creatively ambitious leader who thrives at the intersection of client partnership crossfunctional collaboration and bestinclass execution.
The Opportunity
As Account Director youll shape the strategic and creative output of the business while strengthening client relationships and driving longterm account growth. Youll guide integrated teams across disciplines mentor rising talent and ensure work is delivered efficiently on time and at the highest quality.
Working closely with an SVP Account Director youll help grow a brand in a competitive landscape bringing strong judgment operational rigor and a sharp creative lens to everything you do.
What Youll Do
- Lead integrated campaigns across brand promotional seasonal social and digital.
- Partner with creative strategy media production and analytics teams to deliver impactful work.
- Build trusted seniorlevel client relationships and confidently guide decisionmaking.
- Translate business objectives into clear briefs strategic direction and actionable feedback.
- Oversee complex scopes budgets timelines and crossagency workstreams.
- Mentor and develop midlevel and junior talent strengthening the team and the work.
- Bring operational discipline and new ways of working to a large highvolume portfolio.
Experience & Capabilities
- Proven leadership on large complex accounts with significant production demands.
- Deep experience delivering integrated campaigns across broadcast digital video social print and OOH.
- Fluency in datainformed decisionmaking creative performance analytics and retail media considerations.
- Strong financial stewardship across scopes burn forecasting and staffing.
Leadership & Collaboration
- Polished confident communicator who navigates senior client relationships with ease.
- Highly collaborative leader who elevates multi-disciplinary teams and creative output.
- Calm solutionoriented presence with sound judgment in fastmoving environments.
- Passion for mentoring and growing talent at all levels.
Bonus Strengths
- A fresh strategic or cultural perspective that expands how teams think about audiences.
- Strong storytelling and creativeevaluation instincts especially within retail environments.
- Experience with highvolume social content talentdriven work or influencer/creator ecosystems.
- A track record of introducing efficiencies process rigor or smarter ways of working.
Our Publicis Groupe motto Viva La Différence means were better together and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities across all facets of intersectionality and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.
Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage dental vision disability 401K as well as parental and family care leave family forming assistance tuition reimbursement and flexible time off.
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Required Experience:
Director
About Company
Publicis Media is one of the four solutions hubs of Publicis Groupe ([Euronext Paris FR0000130577, CAC 40], alongside Publicis Communications, Publicis.Sapient and Publicis Healthcare. Led by Steve King, CEO, Publicis Media is powered by its five global brands, Starcom, Zenith, Spark ... View more