Account Director

Role: Account Director (H/F)

Location: Paris, France (Office presence expected at minimum 2 days per week)

Please submit your CV in English

 

THE ROLE

As Account Director, you'll lead the day-to-day operations and strategic direction of the studio, reporting to the Business Director. You'll be accountable for the quality, consistency, and financial performance of the account, managing a team of Project Managers, Creatives, and Social Strategists while acting as a trusted partner to senior client stakeholders across Europe.

This is a role for someone who moves comfortably between the big picture and the detail: shaping a long-term client relationship on one side, and keeping a complex, fast-moving creative operation running smoothly on the other.

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WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Lead, develop, and motivate a multidisciplinary team including Project Managers, Creatives, and Social Strategists, with direct line management responsibility for five reports
• Serve as the primary client contact, building senior-level relationships grounded in trust, transparency, and proactive strategic thinking
• Develop a thorough understanding of the client's brand portfolio, marketing objectives, and audiences - translating insight into clear creative direction
• Oversee the full creative process from brief to delivery: briefing, development, presentation, production, and distribution across social, video, POS, OOH/DOOH, and web
• Identify, plan, and manage the internal and external resources needed to deliver briefs on time and to brief
• Manage the financial health of the account, including budget forecasting, cost management, profitability tracking, and invoicing
• Identify opportunities to expand the scope, tools, and services of the studio and develop compelling proposals to grow the relationship
• Drive continuous process improvement, identifying and implementing efficiencies without compromising creative quality
• Bring relevant industry trends, platform developments, and content best practice to the team and client on an ongoing basis
• Build a studio culture that is collaborative, creatively ambitious, and oriented around delivering exceptional work

Budget and Financial Management

• Oversee the studio's annual content budget and report financial performance against forecast
• Present budget updates and account financials to client and OLIVER stakeholders
• Accountable for the commercial health of the studio, including cost control, profitability, and invoicing accuracy

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WHAT YOU BRING

• A track record of leading content creation at a strategic level within an international environment, with strong grounding in social media content
• Proficiency in English & French is required as we are a global business
• Proven experience managing and developing multidisciplinary teams, including direct line management
• Confidence building and maintaining senior-level client relationships based on trust, strategic partnership, and deep brand understanding
• Strong project management capability, able to plan, prioritise, and manage complex, multi-market workloads under pressure
• End-to-end content expertise: from concepting and production through to distribution, performance, and iteration
• Comfort with financial tracking, budget management, and commercial performance reporting
• Clear and credible presentation skills, with the confidence to lead senior client conversations
• Experience in, or strong working knowledge of, the FMCG sector is an advantage

Gen AI and Agentic Thinking

• Confident, strategic use of Gen AI tools to enhance studio output, efficiency, and creative quality
• Ability to set quality standards and governance for AI-assisted work at studio or account level
• Agentic approach to complex business and creative challenges — systematic, solution-oriented, and able to lead a team through ambiguity
• Drives AI literacy and responsible adoption across the team; brings critical judgment to the evaluation of AI outputs

Formal qualifications are welcome but not required. Equivalent experience gained through work, study, volunteering, or self-directed learning counts equally.

 

Req ID: 18494