Senior Account Director, Brand - Sky Creative United Kingdom
Sky
Full Time
United Kingdom
10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description
Our Account Management team at Sky Creative manage projects and campaigns for the UK and European markets across multiple business verticals. We’re now looking to bolster our senior ranks with a Senior Account Director to take on a leadership role, focusing on Brand Design projects. You’ll play a pivotal role, working with multiple teams across business verticals as well as senior management, to plan and deliver some of the biggest brand projects for Sky.
What you'll do:
- Partner with Brand strategists, Creative, Production and Account teams to plan and deliver brand design projects that involve strategy, master asset creation, asset updates, guidelines for application across all customer touchpoints!
- Be the driver of tier 1 priority brand projects across multiple business verticals (e.g., new channel launches, product launches and refreshes), and the key contact for senior management across Sky Creative and marketing, accountable for collaboration and integration.
- Forward planning and scope prioritisation. Plan to deliver the brand scope across all business areas throughout the year, prioritising and resourcing through a multidisciplinary view and understanding of business priorities.
- Bring innovative thinking to the table. Be a key player in evolving workflows and ways of working to create cohesive and efficient ways of working across Account management, Production, Brand design, ATL campaign creative, BTL, Retail and Marketing teams.
- Lead ‘Brand Hubs’ for tier 1 projects across business verticals. To ensure cohesion, integration and consistent outputs.
- Support the Account Directors and Account Managers in their day-to-day roles as an escalation point for brand projects.
- Be a key influencer and partner. Distil complex creative and business challenges into simple narratives to help sell in the work and assist senior management decision making.
- Work with the relevant Head of Business to plan for and highlight any potential pinch points and conflicts that will impact the work and/or resources.
- Accountable for the overall fiscal control and rigour of projects. Collaborate with production to ensure budgeting, tracking and reporting is efficient and accurate.
- Present in a confident manner, manage feedback effectively and negotiate in a pragmatic way when required, while driving for clear and consolidated feedback.
What you'll bring:
- 7+ years of Account Management experience in leading high profile, brand development projects for famous brands. Includes experience managing major launches and refreshes for products and services / or with channel branding in the media and entertainment industry!
- Comfortable working through-the-line, with experience managing projects that impact advertising, digital and retail channels.
- Passion and enthusiasm for the power of creativity to help solve business problems with an ability to input strategically on briefs and influence the creative development.
- Rounded experience and agility, to be able to work across multiple teams and business areas simultaneously. With the ability to lead collaboration across functions and with external partner agencies.
- Successful track record of leading process change as well as pushing creative boundaries
- Natural skills in building and maintaining relationships at a senior level, e.g., Head of Department, Director level and above. An ability to simplify complex issues to help teams navigate through and manage communications upwards to senior leaders is a must.
- Evidence of successfully leading creative processes and keeping creative teams on track during development, exercising excellent judgement and influencing decision making.
- Leadership qualities, setting an example for Account Directors / Account Managers and supporting their professional development within the team.
- Good commercial understanding and proven experience running projects to budget and time.
- The ability to maintain a high-level, customer-focused, strategic outlook but get into the detail when an issue requires it.
Team Overview
Sky Creative is Sky’s European Brand and Creative hub providing Brand Strategy, Brand Design, Advertising, Promotions, Broadcast Creative and Digital Design for multiple partners across our European Markets.
From rebranding Sky Sports to designing key art and creating large-scale ATL campaigns for Sky’s commissions and original productions, we are uniquely placed to offer our people a huge range of exciting and diverse opportunities.
We believe that an in-house agency is the best of both worlds. A great portfolio of work with unrivalled proximity to our clients, programme makers and commissioners alike. We are passionate about what we do and share first-hand in the success of the brands, shows and content we help create, promote and market.
We’re committed to delivering brilliant creative, made by people that love what they do.
The rewards:
There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to #LifeAtSky: the perks. Here’s a taster:
- Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
- The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate
- A generous pension package
- Private healthcare
- Discounted mobile and broadband
- A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences
How you'll work:
We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.
We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.
Where you’ll work:
Osterley
Our Osterley campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Chiswick Park, Gunnersbury, Acton Town and Ealing Broadway tube stations. There’s also plenty of parking, bike shelters and showers.
On campus you’ll find six subsidised restaurants and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.
Inclusion:
We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we’ve committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We’ve also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.
At Sky 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.
Sky
careers.sky.com
Isleworth, United Kingdom
Dana Strong
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Broadcast Media
1989
