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About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Business Director to lead key client relationships, drive account growth, and oversee the delivery of breakthrough creative work. This role requires a senior client leader with a strong background in advertising, brand, creative, or integrated agency environments, who can provide strategic thinking, commercial acumen, and exceptional relationship management.

Responsibilities

• Lead and nurture senior client relationships across a portfolio of accounts.
• Partner with strategic, creative, and production teams to deliver integrated marketing and communications solutions.
• Identify opportunities for organic account growth and new business development.
• Provide strategic guidance and counsel to clients, helping solve complex business challenges.
• Oversee campaign delivery from briefing through execution, ensuring quality, timing, and budget expectations are met.
• Manage forecasting, scopes of work, and account profitability.
• Lead client presentations, workshops, and stakeholder engagement activities.
• Mentor and develop junior members of the client services team.
• Foster strong collaboration across Droga5 and the broader Accenture Song network.

Requirements

• Significant experience in client leadership, account management, or business leadership roles within an advertising, creative, media, or integrated agency environment.
• Demonstrated success managing large or complex client portfolios and building trusted senior stakeholder relationships.
• Strong commercial capability, including experience managing budgets, forecasting, and account profitability.
• Experience leading integrated campaigns across multiple channels.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
• A strategic mindset with the ability to balance creative ambition with commercial outcomes.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive collaboration.
• Passion for creativity and its role in delivering business growth.

Skills

• Client leadership
• Account management
• Business leadership
• Commercial capability
• Budget management
• Forecasting
• Account profitability
• Integrated campaign leadership
• Communication
• Presentation
• Negotiation
• Strategic thinking
• Team leadership
• Collaboration
• Creativity
• Relationship management

Location

• Sydney

Work Type

• Flexible working arrangements

Experience Level

• Senior

Benefits

• Access the global scale, resources and innovation of Accenture Song.
• Enjoy flexible working arrangements and strong career development opportunities.

About the Company

• Droga5, part of Accenture Song, is one of the world's most awarded creative agencies, known for creating culturally impactful work that drives business growth.
• Combining creativity, technology, design and customer insight, we help leading brands solve complex challenges and create meaningful connections with their audiences.
• Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale.
• We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.
• We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability.
• Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships.
• We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Equal Opportunity

• At Accenture, our intention is to foster a culture and a workplace in which all of our people feel a sense of belonging and are respected and empowered to do their best work.
• As part of our talent strategy, we hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives and different lived experiences.
• These differences ensure that we have and attract the cognitive diversity to deliver a variety of perspectives, observations and insights which are essential to drive the innovation needed to reinvent, and we hold our leaders accountable for ensuring we have the most innovative and talented people in our industry.
• We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle.
• All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination.
• If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have a preferred communication method, please email exectalent@accenture.com and cite the relevant Job Number, or contact us on +61 2 9005 5000.