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About the Role

Seeking an experienced integrated Account Director for a 5-month fixed-term contract to work on The Sun brands. This role champions the delivery of great work on time and budget, leading day-to-day projects and acting as a trusted client partner.

Responsibilities

• Lead key projects day-to-day, serving as the client’s first port of call and ensuring clear, decisive, and thoughtful direction.
• Develop and maintain strong, trusted client relationships, gaining a deep understanding of their business, brand, pressures, and objectives.
• Interpret, question, and challenge client briefs where necessary to ensure clarity and strategic alignment, inspiring breakthrough creative work.
• Partner with creative and media teams to drive forward impactful creative, setting the work up for success and confidently selling ideas to the client.
• Oversee project timelines and quality control, using healthy paranoia to ensure all work is on-brand, correct, and without error.
• Manage project financials, including creating thorough cost estimates, managing budgets, tracking overburn, and handling reconciliation from client POs through to final invoicing.
• Identify out-of-scope opportunities and negotiate project fees with clients where appropriate.
• Build strong working relationships with internal creative, planning, and wider account teams to help drive the agency's culture and identity.
• Effectively manage upwards, solving most problems independently but escalating to senior management when required.

Requirements

• Proven experience in developing, maintaining, and extending senior client relationships, acting as a trusted partner who understands the client's business, goals, and motivations.
• Extensive experience leading complex projects at an integrated agency, with a great understanding of social, digital, CRM, and video production processes.
• A passion for creativity and the ability to think strategically, bringing insight to discussions and refocusing teams with strong persuasion and negotiation skills.
• Strong financial management skills, including experience with project costing, budget management, tracking profitability, and identifying commercial opportunities.
• A good understanding of how data, AI, and technology can enhance the creative process and campaign effectiveness.
• The ability to build strong working relationships with multiple internal and external stakeholders, juggling numerous tasks at once and delegating effectively to ensure high-quality output.

Skills

• Client Relationship Management
• Integrated Project Management
• Creative Acumen
• Strategic Acumen
• Persuasion
• Negotiation
• Industry Trend Awareness
• Creative Technology Awareness
• Commercial Astuteness
• Financial Management
• Project Costing
• Budget Management
• Profitability Tracking
• Opportunity Identification
• AI Acumen
• Technology Acumen
• Data Utilization
• AI-Enhanced Creative Process
• Campaign Effectiveness
• AI-Powered Workflows
• AI Platforms
• Stakeholder Management
• Task Management
• Delegation

Work Type

• Fixed-term contract

Experience Level

• Experienced

About the Company

• MOSAIC is a dynamic, integrated team dedicated to delivering innovative and effective solutions for News UK.
• We pride ourselves on our collaborative culture, our ability to leverage the full power of the WPP network, and our commitment to driving exceptional results for our clients.
• WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

Equal Opportunity

• Mosaic, part of WPP, is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics.
• We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.