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Senior Account Director, Digital
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Senior Account Director, Digital – Healthcare & Life Sciences Communications
Location: London (Hybrid – 3 days in office)
Salary: £65,000 – £80,000 DOE + bonus + benefits
Are you a digitally-savvy Account Director who thrives on variety – someone equally comfortable setting a channel strategy, briefing a campaign, and being the trusted voice a client turns to when it matters?
We're working with one of the UK's fastest-growing communications consultancies to find a Senior Account Director, Digital to join a close-knit, high-performing digital team. This is a business on a genuine growth trajectory, with an outstanding reputation across healthcare, life sciences and pharmaceuticals – and a digital practice that's scaling fast.
This is a true "second-in-command" role within a team of 6–7 digital specialists. You'll be hands-on with strategy and delivery, a mentor to junior colleagues, and a key driver of commercial growth – all while working on some of the biggest healthcare and life sciences brands in the world.
The Role
- Act as a trusted digital adviser to senior clients, providing strategic counsel and constructive challenge
- Lead the development of integrated digital strategies and channel plans across paid, earned, owned and shared media
- Oversee delivery across multiple accounts – budgets, timelines, resourcing and quality control
- Bring strong working knowledge across paid and organic social, SEO/GEO, media buying, content and analytics – you don't need to be a specialist in every channel, but you do need to be genuinely digitally fluent
- Interpret performance data (Google Analytics, LinkedIn Campaign Manager, Google Ads, Meta, Semrush) and translate it into clear client recommendations
- Coach and support junior and mid-level team members, contributing to a collaborative, entrepreneurial culture
- Support new business activity – proposals, pitches, audits and digital recommendations
- Roughly 65% client-facing delivery, 35% commercial growth, resourcing and internal contribution
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About You
- c.7 years' experience in a digital, integrated or communications agency environment
- A genuine generalist: strong on strategy and client leadership, but able to talk credibly across the tools – particularly social (organic and paid)
- Confident presenter with a clear, considered way of thinking – you'll be asked to demonstrate this at interview
- Comfortable in regulated or complex sectors; healthcare or pharmaceutical experience is a strong plus but not essential for the right candidate
- A natural relationship-builder who enjoys client counsel as much as campaign delivery
- Commercially minded, with an understanding of scopes, budgets and profitability
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What's On Offer
- £65,000–£80,000 depending on experience, plus a non-discretionary annual bonus
- 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays, rising to 30 with service
- Private medical insurance (you and your family), income protection, and life assurance at 4x salary
- Enhanced employer pension contribution
- £150 annual wellness allowance
- Four-week sabbatical after every five years' service
- Access to a global network of agencies, with opportunities for international collaboration
- A genuinely exciting growth story, a supportive team, and real scope to shape a digital offer from a senior seat
This is a confidential search and the client will be revealed at a later stage of the process. Please apply with an up-to-date CV, or reach out directly to joe.georgiou@majorplayers.co.uk for a confidential conversation.
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