Account Director

About VML

VML is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization.

In addition, VML's specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world's largest and most awarded health agencies. VML's global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney.

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Who we are looking for:

VML is seeking an Account Director to support a key automotive franchise dealer group within a large, fast-growing account. The Account Director is responsible for the overall management, growth, and profitability for the account and represents the agency at the client level. This senior account leader will directly supervise a growing account team, providing support, guidance, and translating client business needs into clear agency action across functions.

This role will lead senior day-to-day client relationships, drive delivery excellence across an expanding scope (including creative, strategy, social, CRM, and other services), and help evolve a modern operating model that embraces AI-enabled ways of working to increase speed and scale. The role reports to the Executive Director, Account Management.

Financial forecasting is a key responsibility, providing information for senior leadership to monitor financials on a short- and long-term basis. The Account Director will also seek growth opportunities and may support new business pitches and pitch preparation as the account expands.

What you'll do:

* Lead Work with clients to uncover business needs and objectives, develops appropriate strategies, and identifies/implements solutions to help achieve client goals. Provide account team leadership, and conveys the specific requirements for multi-functional support to the appropriate functional management on a timely basis. Partner with cross-functional teams within the agency to define and influence the client's requirements in order to execute existing business needs and secure organic client growth.

* Build Relationships Innately understand client's business and generate solutions to enhance client performance. Deliver key presentations to small and large groups within the client organization. Lead quarterly agency review meetings. As needed, meet onsite with the client to develop strategy, present concepts manage performance.

* Manage Monitor workflow across account team to ensure efficient delegation of projects. Manage the overall client profitability ensuring responsible financial management and delivery of account profit expectations. Work closely with the PMO and Campaign Strategy to ensure delivery of all campaigns.

Who you are:

* A builder Entrepreneurial attitude couple with a strong business acumen. Ability and appetite to bring people together. Innate ability to marshal people and create gravity around ideas.

* Open and collaborative Our team is close-knit and supportive and we're working with a lot of unknowns - you must champion of team environments that are comfortable and encouraging.

* Optimistic and resilient Dig in and figure out how to work around problems. Yes and why not posture. Takes care of self and team. Balance needed to maintain stamina and positivity.

* Ego-less We all wear the hats that need wearing, it's a mentality that makes the team successful.

What you'll need:

* Minimum 8 years' experience in account leadership, preferably within a marketing/advertising agency environment

* Demonstrated track record of client…