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Client Services Director
May 19, 2011, 4:11 pm
Filed under: New Vacancy

Client Services Director

Birmingham
up to £60k

AH53

This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced Client Services Director to join an established and highly successful full service marketing and design agency.  They are looking for someone from an agency and/or clientside background who is an entrepreneur at heart, with the commercial acumen to identify growth opportunities that impact on revenue/profit for clients and for the agency.

They need a top notch marketer with a proven ability to deliver through the line campaigns across all media from press and outdoor to DM, print and online, coupled with a natural ability to forge strong client relationships.

The successful candidate needs to be able to work pro-actively, demonstrate their outstanding organisational skills and the ability to cope under pressure.  You will also need the ability to work strategically with clients to develop activity that achieves ROI as well as be willing to keep your hands on the tactical day-to-day activity.

This person will play a pivotal role in the development the agency, its clients and the team as follows:

- Working with the MDs to ensure the agency’s financial targets are met.

- Acquiring new business through client development, pitch support and presentations.

- Generating creative briefs, working with the Creative Director on ideas and campaign development.

- Direct line management of account handling team.

- Recruitment and development of account handling team

- Being a credible ambassador for the agency, building confidence with clients, consolidating and building client relationships and spotting/delivering new revenue opportunities.

Personal attributes will include:

-  Ability to lead by example, hands-on and proactive

- Operational and strategic thinker

- Solution focused and demonstrate a constant ‘can do’ attitude

- Identify and ‘win’ business growth opportunities

- Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills

- Can work under pressure and to tight timescales

- Ability to quickly analyses and resolve problems

- Ability to think numerous steps ahead

- Solid business acumen and financial concern

- Strong attention-to-detail

- Manage, mentor and review performance of account team

- Self-motivated and able to motivate and drive others

- Solution focused and demonstrate a constant ‘can do’ attitude

Benefits: Pension, life assurance, private health care, equity shares, free parking.

If you have the right skills please forward your CV and salary requirements this role should definitely be given serious consideration as the long term benefits for the right candidate are hard to beat, the role gives the right person a real opportunity to shape their own and the agencies future.

Please forward your salary requirement & CV to ann@greensr.co.uk

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