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Client Director
Client Director
📍 Hybrid Working in Leeds and Newcastle (4 days in the office)
💰 Really competitive salary
Ready to lead some of the agency's biggest client relationships and play a key role in its future?
We're working with a highly respected creative agency that's looking for a Client Director to join its senior team. This is a brilliant opportunity for someone who thrives on building trusted partnerships, spotting commercial opportunities and helping ambitious brands achieve more.
You'll lead a portfolio of major technology clients, becoming their strategic advisor whilst working closely with talented creatives, strategists and production teams to deliver work that makes a genuine impact. Alongside growing existing relationships, you'll help shape the agency's commercial direction, mentor the client services team and play a key role in the next stage of the agency's growth.
If you're commercially sharp, naturally collaborative and passionate about creating long-term client partnerships, this is one you'll want to explore.
What You'll Be Doing
- 🤝 Leading senior client relationships, becoming the trusted strategic partner across a portfolio of key accounts
- 🎯 Developing long-term account strategies that align creative thinking with commercial objectives
- 📈 Identifying opportunities to grow existing accounts through new services, projects and strategic partnerships
- 💡 Working closely with strategy, creative and production teams to ensure every brief delivers exceptional work and measurable results
- 💷 Owning commercials across your portfolio, including forecasting, budgets, profitability and account performance
- 🚀 Providing senior oversight across projects, solving challenges early and ensuring delivery remains smooth and commercially successful
- 👥 Coaching, mentoring and developing the client services team, helping people grow whilst maintaining exceptional client standards
- 🌟 Contributing to wider agency growth, thought leadership and innovation as part of the senior leadership team
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What You'll Bring to the Table
- ✔ Proven experience within a senior agency client services role, ideally as an Account Director, Senior Account Director or Client Director
- ✔ A strong track record of developing strategic client relationships and growing accounts
- ✔ Commercial confidence across forecasting, budgeting, profitability and account planning
- ✔ Experience leading pitches, proposals and senior client presentations
- ✔ Strong strategic thinking with the ability to translate client objectives into commercially successful creative solutions
- ✔ Confidence influencing senior stakeholders and navigating complex organisations
- ✔ Previous experience mentoring and developing high-performing client services teams
- ✔ A collaborative, proactive approach with excellent communication and relationship-building skills
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Why Join?
- 🚀 Lead some of the agency's most exciting technology and software clients
- 🎯 Join the senior leadership team with genuine influence across clients, culture and agency growth
- 🤝 Work alongside talented strategists, creatives and client service specialists who genuinely care about doing brilliant work
- 📈 Join an ambitious agency where your ideas, leadership and commercial thinking will shape the future of the business
- 🏡 Hybrid working - 4 days in the office
- 💼 Competitive salary
Ready to take the lead? If you're looking for a role where you can influence clients, inspire people and help shape the future of a growing creative agency, we'd love to hear from you. 🚀
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