EMX Account Director, Creative Futures London, England Full Time

Group M Worldwide Inc.
EMX Account Director, Creative Futures

Partnerships & SponsorshipsLondon,England

Title: Creative Account Director / Creative Client Services Director Reporting to: VP Content and Innovation

About the role

The Creative Account Director sits within ‘Media Futures Group’, an agency developed in collaboration with Google, to meet their marketing needs.

This is an exciting role in the Creative Futures team at MFG. The Creative Futures team, which sits at the heart of the agency, is a creative department responsible for delivering breakthrough content, partnerships and creative for our clients.

In this role you will build trusted relationships with our clients at Google, to understand their business and their creative requirements. You will play a pivotal role to marry marketing objectives with high quality creative thinking to ensure the development and delivery of impactful and effective creative across Google media investment in the UK.

This role will require strategic thinking, strong communication skills and an ability to connect the right people at the right time to bring creative and media closer together, with the ambition for MFG to deliver truly integrated marketing for Google.

Candidates must demonstrate the ability to work effectively with teams across the business to deliver innovative and effective creative output for clients, including Creative teams, Creative Director, Creative Strategy, Production, Media Planners, Activation and Partnerships.

We are looking for an individual with experience in managing the creative development and production process. Candidates will also be expected to collaborate with other Google agencies to help Google achieve their marketing goals.

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible and the primary contact for all Google Pixel Creative projects, to be the ‘go to’ for internal stakeholders, clients and external agencies and partners.
• Our clients are typically strategic, smart and results driven – you’ll need to be the same. You will become a trusted advisor to Google Product Marketing Managers, influencing the development of the creative work, stimulating greater creative innovation, and overseeing the production process.
• You will be expected to show experience and self-confidence to challenge the client when required.
• You will own, manage and develop the client relationship with those who are responsible for Creative output at Google, primarily across Google Pixel.
• You will be expected to expand Creative Future’s creative remit for Google, into new channels. You will be expected to document this progress to facilitate the expansion of creative responsibilities across other Google product areas and other EMX clients.
• You will understand the creative requirements across different media channels and formats to achieve best in class work across that exceeds client expectations and delivers business results.
• You will oversee and iterate the delivery of brilliant people processes that facilitates innovative and efficient delivery of creative work.
• You will form part of the integrated planning and delivery team for Google, which requires communication and collaboration with teams across the MFG agency, to bring media and creative together.
• This role will occasionally be expected to contribute to EMX and Creative Futures new business opportunities, both as internal organic growth and external new client pitches.
• You will manage the pipeline of Google Pixel Creative opportunities for Creative Futures, calculating the necessary resources of new projects to inform staff planning and talent allocation.

A bit about yourself

• Track record in establishing and leading client relationships.
• Experience of working in a creative agency or creative department in a media agency.
• Knowledge of media planning and activation, to be able to understand the creative requirements of media plans, and the expertise to fulfil the creative potential of media channels and formats.
• Ambitions to bring media and creative together, to deliver integrated marketing for clients.
• Strong presentation skills, with the ability to convey creative story-telling to secure client trust and buy-in at the highest level.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to articulate the complex in a clear and concise manner.
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines and deliver results.
• A belief in open, candid, and honest communication at all times, both internally and with clients.
• Helps foster a safe, collaborative, and friendly working environment where people can be authentic and deliver their best work.