The Role

We are looking for a Group Account Director to support a new AI-powered content studio team on a new automotive client at T&Pm, from the moment briefs are received, all the way through to delivery.

This role positions you as a client partner, demonstrating your leadership, strategic direction, accountability, and vision for their business. In addition to having day-to-day relationships with senior clients, you’ll be a mentor for your team, ensuring unity, optimizing talent utilization and growth among all team members.

Responsibilities:

• Foster and maintain a strong relationship with multiple senior client leaders through a demonstration of industry knowledge and of the application to business challenges 

• Manage all aspects of the client business providing superior customer service while maximizing business opportunities  

• Know and understand the client mandatories and regulations which must be adhered to in response to each brief 

• Understand client compensation structure and implications of plan changes

•  Responsible for meeting business KPIs

•  Understand and drive the strategic vision

•  Serve as the key contact for partner agency leads and external client partners (eg. PR, Media, etc)

• Work closely with all disciplines (Strategy, Creative, Media, Production etc.) to foster excellence in all deliverables

• Review creative work and provide your creative colleagues with constructive feedback in accordance with outlined creative briefs and client feedback

• Keep internal stakeholders and clients informed regarding projects, activities, deadlines, and deliverables

• Protect the creative integrity of ideas or solutions from internal or external factors, from conception through to delivery

Skills and Experience:

• Must have substantial previous agency experience, with some time as a group account director preferable

• Experience working with complex businesses with multiple business lines

• Experience working in a multi-agency / multi-entity environment

• Ability to manage, develop, motivate and mentor junior team members

• Automotive experience a bonus

The pay range for this role is $180,000-$200,000K. Individual compensation will be commensurate with the candidate's experience and local cost of labor. Salary is subject to change based on factors such as geographic location and cost of living in location of hire. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Who Are We?

T&Pm is one of the world’s leading full service creative and media agencies, connecting talent and tech to drive growth for brands. Formed by the integration of The&Partnership and mSix&Partners, it brings together content and distribution into a single, holistic end-to-end marketing solution. Backed by WPP and GroupM and combined with the agility of an entrepreneurial Partner-led mindset, the multi-discipline agency spans four continents with 45 offices and over $1.2 billion dollars in billings globally. As an early adopter with the first ever AI-generated TV ad for Lexus in 2018, T&Pm is focused on harnessing AI across all its outputs with its 1,900 people already trained on WPP’s proprietary AI platform Creative Studio, to deliver enhanced outcomes for clients.

We believe in The Power of &, connecting talent & tech to fuel brand growth. Our teams blend creative, media, experience and technology specialists from across our marketing practices. The performance mindset of these teams optimises to business outcomes in every channel, fueled by the latest innovations in AI. Working alongside our clients’ marketing departments, we deliver ‘&mplified Creativity’ to solve their business and brand challenges seamlessly, creatively and efficiently.

Ultimately of course, we are our people. They’re the most important part of our business, so we want to make a lasting impression on them in the same way they do on us, by striving to become the most important place in their careers.

That’s why we do our best to build strong communities around them; provide the best possible opportunities for them to develop & grow; and empower them to make a difference to their clients and the world at large. Our strengths often lie in our differences, so we challenge and champion each other and our clients, to be the very best we can be.

T&Pm embraces and celebrates diversity, inclusivity, and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are a worldwide creative agency that represents global clients. The more inclusive we are, the more brilliant work we can create together.