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About the Role

The International Account Director plays a crucial role in translating MGM’s global vision into coordinated, high-performing media strategies that scale across regions, connect local context to global direction, and deliver consistent operational excellence allowing us to move at the speed of culture. This role oversees all workstreams and manages the delivery of projects from start to finish, engaging with our internal teams and local market colleagues to deliver excellence in execution. This position reports to the International Client Lead (London), manages a Senior Account Executive and co-ordinates a multi-disciplinary central team of planning, strategy, activation, ops, and insights roles.

Responsibilities

Lead the day-to-day management of the account, ensuring timely, high-quality responses to client requests.
Build strong working relationships with clients, local markets and internal teams, acting as the central point of coordination.
Review and quality assure deliverables from both the central and local teams before client presentation.
Demonstrate an understanding of the agreed client scope, resource allocation and key account KPIs.
Foster innovative thinking across the account, with particular emphasis on content, digital, technology and data.
Stay abreast of industry trends and best practice, particularly across theatrical and digital marketing.
Facilitate effective knowledge sharing across markets, enabling best practice and continuous learning.
Ensure local teams understand campaign objectives, deliverables and agreed ways of working.
Support the consistent application of global frameworks, strategic principles, measurement approaches and taxonomy across all markets.
Act as the connection between central and local teams, ensuring global direction is translated into effective local execution while surfacing market insights back to the central team.
Oversee the review of local market plans.
Oversee international campaign delivery, ensuring integration across strategy, planning, activation and shared services.
Manage campaign timelines, workflows and governance to ensure all deliverables are completed on time and to a high standard.
Partner closely with the Operations Director to embed efficient processes, templates, SLAs and escalation paths.
Monitor quality, consistency and accuracy across all campaign deliverables and market outputs.
Proactively identify delivery risks, resolve issues and escalate where appropriate.
Work closely with activation, planning, analytics, data science and shared service teams to deliver integrated campaigns.
Build strong relationships across local markets, central teams and specialist functions to drive collaboration and alignment.
Remove blockers across agencies, regions and workstreams to maintain campaign momentum.
Champion cross-market collaboration, sharing learnings, case studies and best practice to continuously improve campaign quality.

Requirements

Proven track record of successfully managing end-to-end multi-market campaigns.
Experience navigating matrixed organizations and connecting cross-functional teams.
Proven ability to run well-prepared client and network status meetings.
Strong operational discipline and comfort managing high-velocity campaign environments.
Entertainment category / Theatrical experience.
Experience collaborating with cross-channel activation, measurement, or data science teams.
Familiarity with Amazon’s narrative culture and leadership principles.
Experience managing global-to-local communication systems or playbooks.
Requires individuals to have the right to work in this location.

Skills

Media strategy
Account management
Client relationship management
Cross-functional team coordination
Content
Digital marketing
Technology
Data analysis
Industry trend analysis
Best practice implementation
Knowledge sharing
Campaign objective setting
Global framework application
Strategic principle application
Measurement approach implementation
Taxonomy application
Local market insight gathering
Integrated campaign delivery
Workflow management
Governance implementation
Process optimization
SLA management
Issue resolution
Risk identification
Stakeholder collaboration
Cross-market collaboration

Location

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

International Account Director

Benefits

Competitive medical insurance
Group retirement plans
Vision insurance
Dental insurance
Significant paid time off
Preferential partner discounts
Employee mental health awareness days

About the Company

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.
WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale.
Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working.
At WPP, we’re constantly reinventing the future of creativity on an ever-broader canvas, bringing together unrivalled talent, resources and skills to provide an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce and technology.
OpenDoor is a unique integration of the best of WPP and Amazon – building on their respective strengths and visions.
The unique OpenDoor partnership model is built to deliver next level Productivity, fueled by our industry-leading approach to People, Platforms, and Process.
OpenDoor spans across all WPP agencies and disciplines such as media, business consultancy, communications and brand strategy, tech and commerce, public relations, and production.
OpenDoor’s values are built from Amazon’s own 16 Leadership Principles, and WPP’s core values of Open, Optimistic and Extraordinary.
By joining OpenDoor, not only are you joining a cross-function team partnering with one of WPP’s top five global clients, but you are also taking a step to challenge yourself and the world around you every day, working in the most unusual way on some of Earth’s most ambitious opportunities in marketing, tech, media, business, and creativity.

Equal Opportunity

WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to characteristics.
We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection in this open and supportive environment.
If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.