Digital Account Director

We are seeking a talented Digital Account Director (Digital Planning & Activation) for a 6-month contract to provide seamless leadership for a major global entertainment and technology client. This role sits at the center of a hub-and-spoke delivery model.

About the Role

You will be responsible for overseeing digital media planning and activation delivery across biddable and platform-led channels. It requires a blend of digital planning leadership, activation governance, and client partnership to ensure strategies are planned holistically and activated consistently across multiple markets.

Responsibilities

• Programmatic Display & Video
• Online Video & Connected TV (CTV)
• Paid Social
• DSP and platform-led digital media
• Data and audience-driven digital planning and execution

Digital Planning & Activation Leadership

• Lead digital media planning oversight, ensuring plans are strategically sound, aligned to business objectives, and feasible for multi-market activation.
• Partner with central teams to shape digital channel strategy, budget allocation, and channel roles.
• Ensure digital plans translate into clear, executable activation frameworks and act as the senior escalation point for digital delivery, performance, or operational risks.

Central & Local Market Collaboration

• Act as the primary bridge between central strategy teams and local activation markets.
• Ensure global/regional strategies are successfully adapted to local market requirements, balancing global consistency with local flexibility.

Client Partnership & Commercial Ownership

• Serve as a trusted senior advisor to client stakeholders regarding strategy, platform selection, and performance optimization.
• Clearly articulate digital trade-offs, constraints, and opportunities.
• Own commercial accountability across the scope, including PO management, forecasting, and accurate billing in coordination with finance teams.

Qualifications

• Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience in digital media planning and biddable activation. We are open to strong Account Managers who are ready to step up into an Account Director role.
• Multi-Market Expertise: Proven experience working in a global position across complex, multi-market scopes. Familiarity with hub-and-spoke delivery models is highly desirable.
• Channel Knowledge: Broad cross-channel digital experience. If you are a specialist in one channel (e.g., Paid Social), you must possess a strong overarching multi-channel view. Hands-on experience in every single platform is not required, as activation teams will handle execution.
• Key Behaviors: Strategic yet delivery-focused, calm under pressure, commercially rigorous, collaborative, and a confident decision-maker.

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