Charlie Cash Recruitment
Senior Account Director - Experiential - Alcohol Brands
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🚨 SENIOR ACCOUNT DIRECTOR | BRAND EXPERIENCE | LONDON | £60–70K DOE + Private Healthcare and Bonus
I'm working with a fast-growing, global brand experience agency that is looking for a Senior Account Director to join their London team.
This is a fantastic opportunity to work with major drinks and alcohol brands, delivering culturally relevant campaigns across the UK and EMEA.
The agency has a genuinely strong reputation for creating experiential-first campaigns that connect brands with audiences through culture, communities and live experiences.
THE ROLE:
You'll take a senior leadership role across a portfolio of major drinks clients, owning relationships and helping shape and deliver campaigns across multiple markets.
This is a role for someone who is commercially sharp, strategically minded and confident in front of senior clients. You'll be expected to lead relationships, identify opportunities to grow accounts and play a key role in pitches and new business.
You'll work across everything from global toolkits and brand activations through to experiential campaigns involving brand ambassadors and communities, working across UK and EMEA markets.
You'll be responsible for:
- Leading senior client relationships across major drinks/alcohol accounts.
- Owning the strategic and commercial direction of campaigns.
- Developing UK and EMEA campaigns and adapting global brand strategies/toolkits for local markets.
- Leading pitches, proposals and new business opportunities.
- Identifying opportunities to grow existing accounts and develop client relationships.
- Working closely with Strategy, Creative, Production and Experiential teams to deliver standout work.
- Overseeing experiential campaigns, brand activations and ambassador-led programmes.
- Managing budgets, scopes, forecasting and commercial performance.
- Leading and developing account teams, providing direction and mentorship.
- Challenging briefs and bringing strategic thinking to campaign development.
- Ensuring work is delivered to an exceptional standard, on time and commercially effectively.
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About You
Drinks/alcohol experience is essential. We're looking for an established Senior Account Director, Account Director or experienced Senior Account Manager ready to step up who has a strong background working with drinks brands within an agency environment.
You'll ideally have:
- Strong experience working with drinks/alcohol brands.
- A background in experiential/brand experience marketing.
- Experience leading major client relationships and managing senior stakeholders.
- Proven pitch and new business experience.
- Strong commercial awareness and the ability to manage budgets, scopes and profitability.
- Experience managing and developing teams.
- Experience working across global toolkits and/or EMEA campaigns.
- Experience delivering brand activations, ideally including brand ambassador or community-led programmes.
- Strong strategic thinking and the ability to turn a brief into an impactful campaign.
- Excellent communication, presentation and leadership skills.
- A positive, collaborative and commercially minded approach.
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THE AGENCY:
You'll be joining a fast-growing, experiential-first agency with offices globally, working with some seriously exciting consumer brands across youth and cultural marketing.
There's a fantastic culture, ambitious leadership team and plenty of opportunity to work internationally as the agency continues to expand.
You'll have the chance to work on global campaigns, travel internationally and be part of a business that is genuinely pushing experiential and cultural marketing forward.
What's on offer?
- 💰 £60,000–£70,000 DOE
- 🌍 UK & EMEA / global campaigns
- ✈️ International travel opportunities
- 🥂 Major drinks & alcohol brands
- 🏆 Fast-growing, award-winning agency
- 📈 Genuine career progression
- 🤝 Great agency culture
- 📍 Central London / hybrid working
If you're an experienced experiential Account Director/Senior Account Director with a strong drinks background and you're looking for a bigger, more international opportunity, I'd love to hear from you.
Get in touch - charlie@charliecash.co.uk
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