Senior Account Director

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Senior Account Director

Location: Cincinnati OH; Syracuse NY; New York NY; Detroit MI

Who We Are

At FutureBrand our mission is to create a more positive world through branding. And doing so is our passion. Every day everywhere brands impact our lives and the decisions we make from our health money and home to the energy we consume the resources we use and how we connect with the world around us. The most successful brands create positive sustainable change for today and for the future.

Internally we are building a culture that is aligned to our values of being progressive adaptable collaborative and empowering. Our community is one that celebrates everyones individuality and provides an equitable culture where everyone can thrive and achieve their full potential.

The Opportunity

Were looking for a Senior Account Director to lead and grow some of our most important client partnerships.

This is not a traditional account role. You will operate as a strategic business partner with a consultant mindset someone who can navigate complexity connect dots across disciplines and unlock new opportunities for both our clients and our business.

Youll sit at the intersection of strategy creativity and commercial impact bringing clarity to ambiguity and momentum to ideas.

What Youll Do

• Lead with Influence
• Serve as a senior strategic advisor identifying opportunities and challenges proactively
• Build deep trusted client relationships that drive influence and action
• Develop a strong understanding of client businesses categories and competitive landscapes
• Lead clients through ambiguity with clear insight-driven recommendations
• Bring forward-thinking POVs and thought leaderships often before being asked
• Translate client needs into actionable strategies and creative direction
• Lead client engagements including workshops retail audits stakeholder interviews and presentations

Drive Growth & Impact

• Own financial health of accounts including scoping estimating forecasting and billing
• Monitor project performance against budgets and proactively manage risks or variances
• Identify and define new opportunities for growth and incremental scope
• Lead client meetings presentations and strategic work sessions
• Develop clear briefs with measurable KPIs to guide cross-functional teams
• Ensure alignment between client objectives and delivered work

Connect Strategy to Execution

• Translate business challenges into clear actionable briefs and direction
• Partner closely with Strategy Design and Project Management to deliver exceptional work
• Champion creative ideas internally and externally with clarity conviction and craft
• Drive team alignment ensuring seamless execution from concept to delivery
• Ensure every output aligns to a bigger cohesive vision
• Identify and improve internal processes to enhance efficiency and output
• Maintain visibility with leadership on account health risks and opportunities

Build & Elevate Teams

• Lead cross-functional teams with clarity energy and accountability
• Mentor talent and foster a culture of ownership curiosity and continuous improvement
• Drive smarter ways of workingrefining processes to be more agile and effective
• Maintain visibility on account health risks and opportunities with leadership

What You Bring

Qualifications & Skills

• Strong strategic thinking with a deep understanding of brand design and business
• Proven ability to lead complex client relationships and influence senior stakeholders
• Outgoing personality with a consultant mindset possessing excellent communication and presentation skills
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure
• Commercially minded with accountability for revenue and growth
• Collaborative mindset with strong leadership presence
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving clarity

Education & Experience

• Bachelors degree in Marketing Communications Business or related field
• 7-10 years of experience in marketing brand design consultancy or CPG environments
• Demonstrated success with managing and growing client relationships

Equal Opportunity Statement

FutureBrand is an equal opportunity employer. We believe diverse perspectives lead to better ideas and stronger outcomes and we are committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can succeed.

Omnicoms policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time and many of our agencies as well as Omnicoms corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed and were focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join uswe look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.

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