Account Director POSM/PREMIUMS

**Role Overview:** As an Account Director at the next-generation brand activation agency, your purpose is to simplify clients" below-the-line marketing, build sustainable ROI, and engage their customers across the path to purchase. You will play a crucial leadership role in owning and developing client relationships, ensuring operational excellence, and unlocking future value opportunities. Your responsibilities will include leading in-market teams, inspiring innovation, advancing strategic agendas, and building strong relationships with client stakeholders. **Key Responsibilities:** - Own and lead the client relationship, ensuring alignment to commercial and marketing priorities. - Inspire, mentor, and lead the in-market team to achieve operational excellence, innovation, and client satisfaction. - Advance the strategic agenda by pinpointing areas to progress up the marketing value chain. - Build strong relationships with client stakeholders across marketing, shopper, brand, and procurement. - Partner with strategy, performance, and production teams to deliver seamless, integrated solutions. - Ensure all delivery is aligned with contractual obligations, KPIs, SLAs, and quality expectations. - Act as the market's voice within the regional structure, escalating needs and opportunities to the Regional Client Partner. - Champion ongoing improvement by identifying process, creative, or operational enhancements that unlock value. **Qualifications Required:** - Minimum 10 years of experience in agency, client services, or marketing delivery. - Proven experience leading client relationships in complex, fast-moving environments. - Strong commercial understanding and P&L awareness. - Excellent leadership and people development skills. - Deep understanding of shopper strategy and retail activation. - Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to balance short-term priorities and long-term strategic goals. - Confident working with senior stakeholders across marketing, procurement, and commercial functions. - Experience managing cross-functional teams to deliver integrated solutions and measurable outcomes. - Comfortable operating in matrixed, multi-market organizations. **Additional Details:** The Account Director plays a crucial role in implementing Procurement-as-a-Service (PaaS), ensuring in-market operations meet procurement KPIs while supporting innovative and strategic goals. This role requires you to be based in the client's office on a day-to-day basis and fluent in English and the local market language. Experience working across shopper, trade, or retail channels is preferred.,