Senior Account Director - FTC

Senior Account Director - Brand Experience Agency - London (Hybrid)

DNA Recruit is working with an award winning Brand Experience agency known for delivering innovative, culturally relevant and commercially impactful experiential and retail programmes. With a strong reputation for working with globally recognised brands, this agency blends creativity, strategy and execution to create experiences that truly resonate.

This is a senior leadership opportunity for a calm, collaborative and commercially driven individual who thrives on building long term client partnerships, leading high performing teams, and driving agency growth.

About the Role

• Lead senior client relationships across flagship accounts, ensuring long term growth, retention and commercial success
• Take ownership of key Food & Beverage clients, delivering integrated brand experience, activation and retail programmes
• Act as a trusted partner to clients, identifying new opportunities, expanding scopes and driving strategic conversations
• Play a pivotal role in new business, leading pitches and converting prospects into long term partnerships
• Champion creative excellence, ensuring all work is innovative, culturally relevant and flawlessly executed
• Translate complex creative ideas into clear, strategic and commercially viable solutions
• Oversee financial performance across accounts, managing budgets, forecasts and profitability
• Build and lead high performing teams, fostering a collaborative and ambitious culture
• Contribute to agency wide strategy, helping evolve the offering in line with market trends and client needs

Skills and Experience Required

• Proven experience at Senior Account Director level within a brand experience, experiential or integrated agency
• Strong track record of managing and growing senior client relationships
• Commercially astute with experience managing P&L, budgets and forecasting
• Experience delivering large scale experiential, retail or activation programmes
• Strong strategic thinker with the ability to translate creative concepts into actionable plans
• Confident leading pitches and contributing to new business growth
• Exceptional leadership and people management skills
• Highly collaborative with the ability to influence both clients and internal teams
• Passion for culture, consumer behaviour and innovation within brand experience

Salary: Up to £70 85K per annum

Location: London (Hybrid)

Contract: 12 Month FTC (with strong potential to become permanent)

Job Reference: AW 12030

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