🚀 Account Director | Automotive Events & Comms Lead

Account Director | Automotive Events & Comms Lead – Own a Premium Client Portfolio

Northamptonshire Area (Office-Based Hybrid) | Competitive Executive Package

Are you an exceptional Agency Account Director ready to take full strategic ownership of a premium automotive account? This is your mandate to drive significant organic growth, influence client strategy, and enhance brand visibility for a key client within a high-growth Events and Communications Agency.

What’s Different About This Role?

• Premium Client Ownership: Lead the strategic partnership for a major automotive brand, integrating experiential, PR, and digital comms across the full marketing mix.
• Direct Growth Mandate: This role is crucial for unlocking substantial organic expansion. Your expertise and commercial acumen directly fuel agency growth and success.
• Strategic Authority: You operate as the senior client service lead, providing indispensable, informed counsel and acting as the key decision-maker on high-impact projects.
• Work Model: This is an office-based role requiring 4 days per week collaboration at the client's central office in the Northamptonshire area.

What You’ll Bring:

We require a commercially driven strategist with proven automotive expertise:

• 8+ Years of Agency Excellence: Senior account management experience, ideally within a high-growth events, comms, or brand experience agency.
• Automotive Domain Expertise: Proven success in managing large, complex accounts within the automotive industry.
• Communications Focus: Exceptional strength in Public Relations strategies and protocols alongside comprehensive events service knowledge (logistics, production, AV).
• Commercial Acumen: Strong track record of developing and winning new business, including persuasive pitching to senior client stakeholders.
• Leadership Qualities: High creative flair, meticulous attention to detail, and the resilience needed to lead calmly in a fast-paced environment.

What You’ll Do:

You will be the vital strategic link between the client and the agency:

• Senior Client Service: Own and nurture key client relationships, providing strategic counsel that positions the agency as an indispensable partner.
• Strategy Translation: Convert complex client marketing goals into measurable, commercially viable event and communications strategies.
• Flawless Delivery Oversight: Govern the full project lifecycle, ensuring profitable execution—on time, on budget, and to the highest standard.
• Growth Driver: Proactively identify and capitalize on organic growth opportunities and contribute compelling insights to new business development.
• Data-Driven Counsel: Lead project performance evaluation, translating data and insights into powerful narratives and future strategic recommendations.

Why You’ll Love It:

As this is an executive-level opportunity within a high-growth agency, you will benefit from a competitive package and direct influence over the agency's success trajectory.

• Competitive Executive Package (details available upon request).
• High level of autonomy and strategic decision-making authority.
• Opportunity to significantly grow an existing, premium account.

The Ideal Fit:

You are a decisive, commercially astute leader who is motivated by the challenge of growing both an account and an agency. You thrive on taking full ownership, are adept at managing account financials, and possess the precision required for detailed planning and high-level strategy. Crucially, you are office-based and commutable to the Northamptonshire area and ready to hit the ground running with a premium automotive client.

Ready to take your career to the next level? Apply now and let’s chat about how this opportunity could be the perfect fit for you!

This position would suit:

• A seasoned Account Director or Senior Account Director looking for true P&L and strategic ownership within the automotive sector.
• An agency professional with 8+ years of experience who has demonstrably grown premium client accounts.
• A leader seeking an office-based role with a hybrid element, commutable to the Northamptonshire area.