Account Director - German speaker required - Sky Creative United Kingdom
Sky
Full Time
United Kingdom
10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description
We have an exciting opportunity for a German speaking Account Director to join Sky Creative in the newly formed German markets team and be responsible for the day to day running of large scale integrated advertising & communications campaigns! You’ll be the glue of the team; making sure our biggest campaigns reach their audience and are successful as possible.
Sky Creative work on a hybrid model and enjoy the best of both worlds with 3 days a week in the office and the rest working from home. This role would require you to be based full time in the UK. Sky would be open to helping providing sponsorship for the right candidate.
What you’ll do:
- Partner with the Creative Director to lead a project team including creative, production and strategy to deliver effective advertising campaigns
- Ensure clear client briefs are received on time and crafted for the creative and production teams to work from
- Accountable for contact reports and project updates, to be cascaded to both internal and external teams as part of owning and driving the plan forward
- Champion collaboration across all department to create fully joined up, through-the-line creative campaigns
- Work with Head of Commercial Ops & Production teams to forward plan activity and ensure shifting plans for work are managed, recognised and escalated as necessary
- Actively ensure relevant stakeholder approval on all creative work at every stage of the project
- Accountable for the overall fiscal control and rigour of projects. Collaborate with production to ensure budgeting, tracking and reporting is efficient and accurate
- Anticipate risks and issues, proactively recommend solutions at all stages of the strategic/creative/production development process
- Distil complex creative and business ideas into simple narratives and sell them in at HoD level and above that help achieve business goals
- Present in a confident manner, manage feedback effectively and negotiate in a pragmatic way when required, while driving for clear and consolidated feedback
- Manage the relationship with Marketing, media agency and others across multipe territories to enable the best, joined-up creative output across all briefs within the parameters we set
What you'll bring:
The successful candidate will have a fundamental understanding of TTL advertising creative & branding. They will be able to balance the demands of operational detail with simplicity of communication and the ability to present to and influence senior leaders across the organisation.
Finally, they will be ambitious to make Sky Creative best in class with a commitment to building the very best diverse culture to deliver world-beating work.
Specific skills and experience required includes:
- Fluent in German and English
- 5+ years of Account Management experience in leading large, complex fully integrated campaigns
- Proven track record of working within a high-performing team in agile and fast-paced environments across multiple territories
- Good commercial understanding and proven experience running projects to budget and time
- Thorough understanding of the time scales involved in creative development and delivery – managing internal teams to support and deliver on time and to the required standard
- Natural skills in building and maintaining relationships at a very senior level, e.g. Head of Department, with evidence of turning these into success stories at the highest level
- Evidence of successfully leading creative processes and keeping creative teams on track during development, exercising excellent judgement about how and when this is done
- Ability to present clear creative and business narratives in a concise and confident manner to senior stakeholders, e.g. HoDs and Marketing Directors
- Proven track record of aligning complex stakeholder groups to achieve a common goal and delivering complex projects
- Passion and enthusiasm for the power of creativity to help solve business problems with an ability to input strategically on briefs and add value during the creative development process
- Experience working across a breadth of creative disciplines and an understanding of how to get different creative functions to collaborate for a better output
- The ability to maintain a high-level, customer-focused, strategic outlook but get into the detail when an issue requires it
- A reciprocal working style with a pragmatic, proactive and positive attitude towards solving problems creatively
Team Overview:
Sky Creative is Sky’s European Brand and Creative hub providing Brand Strategy, Brand Design, Advertising, Promotions and Broadcast Creative for multiple stakeholders across our European Markets.
The hub will consist of an in-house capability and a matrix of external agency and post production partners.
The hub exists to drive excellence in Sky’s Brand and Creative output, and we are committed to diversity and inclusivity.
We bring the best from the global market into Sky – we buy technology, marketing, corporate, operational services and editorial production solutions. We are an international team working with our stakeholders our partners to curate the most effective and efficient customer-led operating model. High ethical standards are embeded in our team, and we engage our supply chains in creating a sustainable future!
The Rewards:
There’s a reason people can’t stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:
- Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
- A generous pension package
- Private healthcare
- Discounted mobile and broadband
Where you’ll work:
Osterley
Inclusion:
Recognised as an ‘Inclusive Top 50 Employer’ and a ‘Times Top 50 Employer for Women’, we’re working hard to ensure we’re a truly inclusive place to work. This means we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and the potential you’ll bring to Sky. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we’re happy to discuss flexible working!
And we’ll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Sky
careers.sky.com
Isleworth, United Kingdom
Dana Strong
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Broadcast Media
1989
