Freelance Senior Account Director
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About the Role
M+C Saatchi Group is seeking a Freelance Senior Account Director to build trusted client partnerships, lead high-performing teams, and drive strategic and commercial success. The role requires proven experience managing senior client relationships, strong leadership skills, and commercial acumen.
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Responsibilities
- Build deep, trusted relationships with clients and serve as primary point of contact
- Lead cross agency briefs and projects to achieve best outcomes for clients
- Drive profitable ways of working across client accounts and manage budgets
- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and collaboration within the team
- Develop compelling presentations and client experiences
Requirements
- Proven experience managing and growing senior client relationships
- Strong leadership skills with experience motivating and developing high performing teams
- Commercial acumen including budget management, forecasting, and account growth
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Strategic mindset with ability to challenge briefs and drive innovation
- Strong organizational skills with ability to manage multiple priorities
- Arabic speaker preferable
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About The Role
- We're looking for a Freelance Senior Account Director, a strategic relationship builder who thrives on creating exceptional client partnerships, inspiring high performing teams, and delivering work that drives real business impact.
Client Leadership & Relationships
- Build deep, trusted relationships with clients beyond the day to day, understanding their personal aspirations, business priorities, and long term goals.
- Be a regular presence within client offices to strengthen relationships and identify new opportunities.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for operational issues and client concerns.
- Earn the trust of clients by consistently delivering exceptional work.
- Identify opportunities to introduce additional agency capabilities that add value to clients' businesses.
Team Leadership
- Ensure every team member understands expectations and the importance of delivering an outstanding client experience.
- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and collaboration.
- Create an environment that reflects and champions our agency vision and behaviours.
- Understand what success looks like for each team member and support their development through regular check ins and performance feedback.
- Plan team capacity and resource requirements in line with business forecasts.
- Help build a connected culture by supporting an engaging social calendar for both the team and clients.
Strategic Leadership
- Lead cross agency briefs and projects with a relentless focus on achieving the best outcomes for clients.
- Partner with Planning to develop clear, innovative campaign strategies.
- Ensure the appropriate level of strategic planning is applied to every brief.
- Build effectiveness measurement and evaluation into campaigns from the outset.
- Take a long term view of clients' brands, helping shape future direction beyond immediate campaigns.
- Challenge briefs to ensure they deliver the strongest possible creative and commercial outcomes.
- Develop compelling presentations and client experiences that inspire confidence and bring bold ideas to life.
Commercial Leadership
- Drive profitable ways of working across client accounts.
- Manage client communications around project burn, timelines, and resource allocation.
- Ensure project scopes and quotes are accurate, commercially sound, and profitable.
- Set clear expectations around budgets and investment decisions.
- Support clients with long term budget planning and investment strategies.
- Define account growth objectives and align the wider team behind them.
About You
- Proven experience managing and growing senior client relationships with confidence and credibility.
- The ability to become a trusted strategic advisor, with clients actively seeking your opinion on brand direction and business strategy.
- Strong leadership skills with experience motivating, coaching, and developing high performing teams.
- Experience leading cross functional or cross agency teams to deliver integrated solutions.
- Commercial acumen, including budget management, forecasting, profitability, and account growth.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and sell ambitious creative ideas.
- A strategic mindset with the confidence to challenge briefs, identify opportunities, and drive innovation.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining exceptional client service.
- Arabic speaker preferable
M+C Saatchi Group
- M+C Saatchi Group was founded in 1995 and is now the biggest Independent creative agency group in the World. Founded on one core principle, Brutal Simplicity.
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