About the Role
The Cluster Account Director (CAD) is responsible for developing and nurturing a key HH Global client, strengthening relationships, identifying growth opportunities, and ensuring timely delivery of solutions against business targets. This role leads a dedicated client team in delivering innovative in-store marketing materials, retail environments, and solutions, with a hands-on approach to operational management and growth.
Responsibilities
- Deliver HH Global’s cluster account strategy for the client.
- Develop strong relationships with senior key stakeholders across the client organization within the allocated cluster.
- Manage the contract in line with contractual responsibilities.
- Manage overall financial performance of the account, including risk analysis and remedy.
- Lead operational delivery for the client across key categories such as temporary POS, Permanent POS, Duty Free, Visibility and promotional products, window installation, and permanent retail fixtures.
- Collaborate with senior HH Global Management to drive innovation and product development.
- Motivate the team to meet and exceed expectations.
- Identify new business opportunities and drive account growth.
- Deliver regular BI reporting to the client, presenting outcomes and objectives.
- Produce client communications documents for C-level consumption, including strategic reports and QBRs.
- Ensure the account is managed profitably by reconciling hours and costs.
- Ensure activities comply with Company policies and procedures.
- Operate effective two-way communication within a regional team in a matrix management environment.
- Build successful partnerships with client business leads and key decision makers, providing strategic insights and revised solutions based on market dynamics.
- Continuously refine creative and production solutions, evaluate spend to maximize capabilities, and drive value.
- Shape the overall account structure and team for ideation, sourcing, procurement, production, and execution of client projects.
- Increase and expand revenue by identifying opportunities and proposing solutions.
- Make staffing decisions, ensuring the account is properly resourced and seasonal peaks are anticipated.
- Train, mentor, and work closely with the Account Management team.
- Drive performance accountability and assume responsibility for overall account management, ensuring superior customer service from the client team.
Requirements
- Knowledge and experience of working with international Brands delivering in-store solutions.
- Strong strategic customer account management experience.
- Excellent direct client interfacing experience.
- Experience working with clients across multiple APAC markets, particularly Japan.
- Ability to think strategically to develop and implement customer account plans across markets.
- Knowledge of outsourced procurement solutions for marketing execution.
- Strong knowledge of the development and production of Print and POS.
- Experience in permanent and semi-permanent retail fixtures and installations is an advantage.
- Ability to analyze complex operational, financial, spend, and product data and present findings confidently.
- Develop strategies underpinned by high-quality data.
- Leadership capability to motivate a dedicated client team, including employee development and mentoring.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to interface with all levels of professionals.
- Entrepreneurial, innovative, and creative mindset.
- Highly proficient with MS Office software.
- Requirement to travel in-market and out-of-market on occasion.
Skills
- Strategic customer account management
- Client interfacing
- Strategic planning
- Procurement solutions
- Print production
- POS production
- Retail fixture development
- Data analysis
- Leadership
- Team motivation
- Employee development
- Mentoring
- Communication
- Presentation
- MS Office software
- Innovation
- Creativity
Location
- APAC markets
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- HH Global is a leading provider of marketing execution and creative production services.
