About the Role
This is a senior, commercially-led, strategic, and client-facing role focused on shaping client's strategic thinking and managing accounts. The role owns a dedicated portfolio of accounts, is accountable for their commercial performance, strategic direction, and relationship health, and provides senior support to other accounts in the APAC region.
Responsibilities
- Own the commercial health, retention, and growth of a dedicated portfolio of clients.
- Act as the senior point of accountability for revenue retention, account growth, and relationship health.
- Maintain a real-time view of portfolio health, risk, and opportunity.
- Lead commercial conversations including renewals, pricing, scope changes, upsell, and cross-sell.
- Own the scoping document for accounts, including building base scope, coordinating delivery input, securing sign-off, and presenting to the client.
- Ensure scopes are outcome-based, correctly priced, and operationally feasible with clearly defined deliverables.
- Partner with Client Service Director and Finance on renewal strategy, forecasting, and margin protection.
- Build and maintain executive-level relationships with key stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities to expand services within client organizations.
- Run strategic sessions with key client stakeholders, bringing in IMWT specialists to surface, shape, and sell new opportunities.
- Travel regularly to meet clients face-to-face for site visits, strategic workshops, and Quarterly Strategic Alignments (QSAs).
- Represent IMWT at a senior level in the market and at industry or client-facing events.
- Own the Quarterly Strategic Alignment (QSA) as a strategic, sales, and retention instrument.
- Provide senior support to other accounts across the APAC region as needed.
- Act as the first senior escalation point for commercial and relationship risk on the dedicated portfolio.
- Handle escalations in a materiality-based, forward-looking way, presenting options.
- Sponsor structured monthly health reviews (RAG) and drive timely mitigation of at-risk relationships.
- Partner closely with the Client Service Director on stream strategy, standards, and operating cadence.
- Work alongside Delivery and Strategy teams within the RACI model.
- Build and maintain relationships with key technology partners, including Google.
- Model best-practice commercial and client leadership behavior for the wider Client Services team.
Requirements
- 7+ years' experience in Client Services, Account Management, or Client Partnership within a digital or performance marketing agency.
- Track record of owning a commercial client portfolio and leading commercial conversations at a senior level (renewals, pricing, scope, expansion).
- Experience engaging C-suite or senior executive client stakeholders.
- Desirable: experience working with Google Marketing Platform enterprise customers (GA4, DV360, SA360 and similar).
- Strong commercial acumen: pricing, renewal strategy, margin, and forecasting.
- Working knowledge of SEO, Paid Media, Analytics, and other core service lines.
- Understanding of outcome-based scoping and the boundary between Client Services and Delivery.
- Strong, current knowledge of trends across digital and technology.
- Confident, senior-level relationship building and executive presence.
- Strong negotiation, escalation handling, and conflict resolution skills.
- Willingness and ability to travel regularly to see clients in person.
- A self-starter who manages their own time and capacity well, with disciplined, accurate time tracking.
Skills
- Client Services
- Account Management
- Client Partnership
- Digital Marketing
- Performance Marketing
- Commercial Acumen
- Relationship Building
- Executive Presence
- Negotiation
- Escalation Handling
- Conflict Resolution
- Time Management
- Time Tracking
- SEO
- Paid Media
- Analytics
- Google Marketing Platform
Location
- Sydney
- Melbourne
- Brisbane
- Australia
Work Type
- Full-time
- Permanent
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Associate Director
- 7+ years
About the Company
- IMWT is a digital or performance marketing agency.
