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The Account Director (AD) is a senior leadership role responsible for overseeing the agency's client portfolio, ensuring exceptional service delivery, account profitability, and long-term client partnerships. Acting as the strategic partner to key clients, the AD drives innovation, fosters high-level relationships, and ensures the agency consistently delivers business value and creative excellence.

Internally, the AD leads, mentors, and empowers the Account Management team --comprising Senior Account Managers and Account Managers -- to achieve performance goals, uphold best practices, and execute client engagements with excellence. This role requires a balance of strategic vision, operational oversight, and client advocacy to strengthen the agency's market position and drive sustainable growth.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Strategic Client Leadership

• Serve as the senior point of contact for top-tier clients, cultivating strong executive-level relationships.
• Act as a trusted advisor, providing strategic counsel on brand activations, event production, esports partnerships, and integrated marketing campaigns.
• Lead annual and quarterly business reviews with clients, ensuring alignment on goals, KPIs, and long-term partnership value.
• Anticipate client needs and proactively propose innovative solutions that drive business outcomes.

2. Business Growth & Account Profitability

• Oversee account portfolio performance, ensuring revenue targets, client satisfaction, and profitability are achieved.
• Partner with the Business Development team to expand existing accounts and explore new service opportunities.
• Identify growth opportunities within client businesses and collaborate with cross-functional teams to design tailored solutions.
• Ensure accurate forecasting, budget management, and reporting for all accounts under their supervision.

3. Team Leadership & Development

• Lead, mentor, and inspire Senior Account Managers and Account Managers, fostering a high-performance, client-centric culture.
• Provide strategic direction, guidance, and oversight to ensure consistent quality in client servicing and project execution.
• Drive team capability-building through coaching, training, and professional development initiatives.
• Set clear performance expectations, conduct reviews, and create succession plans to strengthen the account management function.

4. Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with creative, production, strategy, and finance teams to ensure cohesive, end-to-end client solutions.
• Champion integration across agency disciplines to maximize impact and efficiency in client deliverables.
• Act as the bridge between clients and internal teams, ensuring alignment on objectives and priorities.

5. Thought Leadership & Market Influence

• Represent the agency at industry conferences, forums, and networking events to enhance visibility and credibility.
• Stay updated on market trends, emerging technologies, and esports/gaming industry shifts to inform strategic recommendations.
• Share insights with clients and internal teams to maintain a forward-thinking, innovative approach to account management.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, or related field; MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in account management, client servicing, or related roles, with at least 3–5 years in a senior leadership capacity.
• Proven track record of managing large-scale client portfolios and building long-term executive-level relationships.
• Strong leadership and people management skills, with experience overseeing multi-level account teams.
• Excellent financial acumen, with experience in budgeting, forecasting, and P&L management.
• Exceptional communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
• Experience in esports, gaming, events, marketing, or creative agencies strongly preferred.

Work Schedule:

• Onsite reporting
• Monday to Friday, following a compressed workweek setup.
• Employees may start as early as 7:00AM to 5:00PM; or as late as 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM

Salary Package:

• Basic Salary
• HMO
• Leave Credits

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: Php50, Php70,000.00 per month

Work Location: In person

As an
Account Director
, you will lead account teams in delivering strategic, integrated campaigns that drive measurable business outcomes. You will guide strategic planning, shape campaign vision, manage client relationships, inspiring and motivating teams with clarity of purpose and direction.

This role combines high-level client advisory, multi-channel campaign leadership, team management, and business growth responsibility. You are expected to influence client results, guide cross-functional teams, and play a key role in shaping the agency's culture and priorities.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Focus & Impact

• Leads account teams to drive business goals.
• Owns strategic planning and campaign vision.
• Inspires and motivates teams with clarity of purpose and direction.
• Begins to influence client results through owned strategies and measurable outcomes.

Client Relationship Management

• Shapes planning and decision-making with senior client leadership.
• Acts as a trusted advisor to clients, providing guidance on strategy and execution.
• Build long-term client relationships that drive satisfaction and account growth.

Campaign & Data Management

• Leads multi-channel campaigns using performance data insights.
• Ensures seamless execution and evaluation of campaigns across teams.
• Uses insights to optimize outcomes and recommend strategic improvements.

Team Leadership & Culture

• Manages large and complex teams, fostering growth, engagement, and accountability.
• Mentors and develops talent, building a high-performing, collaborative team culture.
• Champions knowledge sharing and continuous improvement across teams.

Financial Oversight

• Responsible for the financial performance and growth of key accounts.
• Oversees budgeting, forecasting, and profitability of client engagements.

New Business Development

• Drives growth within existing accounts and contributes to new business pitches.
• Identifies opportunities to expand services, offerings, and client partnerships.

Knowledge & Expertise

• Possesses expert knowledge in own discipline and working knowledge of related disciplines.
• Applies expertise to improve client outcomes, campaign effectiveness, and internal processes.

Soft Skills

• Champions clear, confident communication that inspires trust across clients and teams.
• Leads with emotional intelligence, cultivates a growth-oriented team culture, and influences cross-functional collaboration.

Market & Industry Expertise

• Provides thought leadership and trusted guidance based on category expertise.
• Advises teams and clients on market trends, insights, and competitive positioning.

Data & Technology Expertise

• Applies automation and advanced analytics to drive strategy.

Agency Role & Influence

• Shapes agency culture and business priorities.
• Plays a leadership role in internal development.

Qualifications & Experience

• 8–10 years of experience in account management or related roles in advertising, marketing, or communications.
• Proven ability to lead large teams and manage senior client relationships.
• Strong strategic thinking, financial acumen, and communication skills.
• Demonstrated success in driving business growth, multi-channel campaigns, and team development.

Job Description
About McCann Worldgroup:
McCann Worldgroup, part of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), is a leading global marketing solutions network with over 20,000 employees united across 100+ countries by a single vision: To help brands earn a meaningful role in people's lives. McCann Worldgroup was recognized by the Cannes Lions as the 2019 Network of the Year and by the Effies as the world's most creatively-effective marketing services company in 2018, 2019, and 2020. The network is comprised of McCann (advertising), MRM (data science/technology/relationship marketing), Momentum (sponsorship and total brand experience), McCann Health (professional/dtc health care communications), and CRAFT (production).

The strength of our creative capability and innovative thinking has led to some of the world's most celebrated, effective, game-changing work for top brands. Maximizing that strength means bringing together an extensive mix of socially, culturally, and cognitively diverse talent - and creating conditions where they feel empowered to boldly share the fullest expression of their unique worldview. We fiercely believe in the power of creativity and innovation to positively influence society and inspire greater equity and inclusion within the communities we serve. So, every day we deliberately and intentionally choose to embody our global philosophy of Conscious Inclusion and, in turn, fuel our mission to help brands earn a meaningful role in people's lives.

The Role
McCann Worldgroup seeks an Account Director to join our team here in McCann Worldgroup Philippines, Inc. This person will be supporting brands that are leaders in their categories and are creating breakthrough, award-winning marketing. They will be essential to the continued success of our creative work, which is fully integrated across experiential, social, digital, and traditional.

Account Director will provide and support solutions that exceed clients' marketing, advertising, and branding needs. They should be inquisitive of the links between brand behavior, popular culture, business results, and emerging communications and technology trends. They are a voracious news consumer of brand, specialized reporting, and creative – both on a global and local scale, inside and outside marketing.

The Team

The Business Leadership team here at McCann Worldgroup Philippines, Inc. pride themselves on being relentless in converting opportunities for our clients, our agency, and our community. We are curious, strategic, and creative with a never-ending passion for doing fantastic work.

The Ask
Our People
For our McCann Worldgroup Account Director, leadership manifests across:

Find, develop, align, and inspire talent: our talent is our biggest asset. We must cultivate an environment of generosity, learning, possibilities, bravery, and smarts that is equally inspirational and efficient/actionable.

Our Clients

• Demonstrate an understanding of and share their passion for the brand, as well as their pressures and frustrations.

Our Creativity

• Have a point of view, and never be afraid to share it. If a Senior Account Executive knows their clients and their issues, the Senior Account Executive will understand what is right and not.
• Collaborate with creatives about the work to ensure comprehension and ownership.

Our Process
Be a strategic business partner for your client - understand the strategic direction and critical challenges facing their business and quickly become a strong partner.

Work collaboratively with planning to steer and inform the direction of the strategy. Look for further opportunities for the brand and, ultimately, the agency.

Our Place
Drive the triumvirate way of working within the office and across the brands (strategy, business, creative).

Our Promotion
Be the industry's and Business Leadership's voice/face.

What You Will Do
The Account Director for McCann Worldgroup will be required to:

• Be a champion for outstanding work and effectively support and sell new ideas.
• Become the steward of any assigned projects. Monitor progress, implement changes, share updates, and formulate possible remedies for challenges as needed.
• Assist in developing and presenting strategies along with fellow team members and preparing proposals to internal team members and clients.
• Source, identify, and package daily consumer and culture news/trends, inspiring agency & client team's strategic and creative development.
• Be the conductor among different areas within the agency to ensure we are delivering the best-integrated solutions to our clients.
• Help develop project budgets by conducting research and reconcile billing, and estimating variances.
• Assist in training and mentoring junior staff.

Who You Will Be
To be successful in this role, you will have demonstrable previous relevant experiences and skills with the following:

Key Skills

• Problem Solving – Analyze critical data points to identify and quickly highlight key issues, problems, and opportunities.
• Business Relationship Management – Know the client's business better than they do. Gain insight into the client's needs and propose potential solutions and opportunities.
• Strategic Thinking – Be relentlessly curious to ensure your team is current on trends, media, competition, and business implications.
• Creative Thinking – Bring forth inspiring creative work to inform the team as we develop business solutions.
• Influence & Negotiation – Provide the team with an informed point of view, context, and business implications.
• Financial Acumen – Understand the meaning and implications of key financial indicators.

Other Characteristics Of An Account Director

• 3+ years of experience in advertising or related disciplines.
• Able to discuss and identify current and future client branding and communication needs.
• Hands-on involvement with integrated campaign development and execution.
• Experience working in a highly fast-paced business in a highly competitive and evolving industry.
• Self-motivated, with the ability to create great internal and client relationships.
• Proactive nature that lets you anticipate client and internal team needs, challenges, solutions.
• Very effective communication skills.
• Excellent writing skills.

About the Role

We're looking for an experienced Account Director to lead key client relationships, drive growth, and manage high-performing teams in a fast-paced marketing/advertising environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the main point of contact for senior client leaders.
• Develop and present account strategies to meet client business goals.
• Lead account teams to deliver multi-channel campaigns on time and on budget.
• Provide strategic recommendations to improve client ROI and performance.
• Mentor and manage team members to ensure high-quality execution and growth.
• Oversee budgets, forecasts, and profitability of assigned accounts.
• Identify opportunities to expand services and grow client revenue.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in account management, marketing, or advertising.
• Proven success managing senior client relationships and large teams.
• Strong strategic thinking, communication, and leadership skills.
• Track record of driving business growth and delivering measurable results.
• Experience with Japanese clients is a strong plus.

About the Role

We're looking for an experienced Account Director to lead key client relationships, drive growth, and manage high-performing teams in a fast-paced marketing/advertising environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the main point of contact for senior client leaders.
• Develop and present account strategies to meet client business goals.
• Lead account teams to deliver multi-channel campaigns on time and on budget.
• Provide strategic recommendations to improve client ROI and performance.
• Mentor and manage team members to ensure high-quality execution and growth.
• Oversee budgets, forecasts, and profitability of assigned accounts.
• Identify opportunities to expand services and grow client revenue.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in account management, marketing, or advertising.
• Account management experience must be specifically within the marketing or advertising industry.
• Proven success managing senior client relationships and large teams.
• Experience managing teams of 10-20 people is required.
• Strong strategic thinking, communication, and leadership skills.
• Track record of driving business growth and delivering measurable results.
• Experience with Japanese clients is a strong plus.

Job Objective

The position is responsible for effectively managing and growing the Client's business by providing communications solutions and superior service.

Principal Working Relationships

Clients, Creative, Creative Services, Traffic, ASC, Producers and Suppliers, Finance

Key Responsibilities

I. Team Effectiveness

• Supervises and manages day-to-day account activities
• Trains and mentors account team to ensure growth and development of Account Managers/Senior Account Managers
• Keeps the team morale healthy
• Encourages active learning and team collaboration across departments

II. Account Profitability

• Plans on how to meet revenue targets and identifies opportunities for growth
• Defines Scope of Work (SOW) for each account and monitors resources to ensure account profitability
• Negotiates fees with client
• Drive efficiency by aiming to get the work right the first time and manage resources effectively
• Ensures sound financials (billings and collections) on accounts

III. Account Stewardship

• Champions a culture of creative effectiveness.
• Prepares setup to help client understand the idea and ultimately sells the Work
• Ensures account basics are accomplished (WIPs, Call Reports, Competitives)
• Researches for additional information or "gifts" for client's review
• Prepares presentation decks.

IV. Client Relationship

• Build positive client relationships as measured by the Agency review
• Advise and provide strong POV on business issues and where to lead the brands
• Collaborate with clients to find business and communication solutions
• Manage client expectations for a smooth working relationship

V. Reports

• Prepares Account Leads, Account Update Sheets.
• Lead and provide guidance to the team when developing reports such as post evaluation, social and competitive

VI. Campaign Development and Production

• Leads / supervises development process of each project
• Monitors campaigns effectively across channels, including optimization for digital
• Collaborates with the Creative and Digital services team, Production, Suppliers and the Client to ensure submission of deliverables as stated in the Job Order
• Ensures that campaigns comply with the rules and regulations of ASC and other regulatory bodies
• Leads preparation of Case Studies of successful campaigns and ensures they have PR coverage

VII. Strategic Plan

• Develops communication strategy / directions
• Utilize tools available to bring out the best work (BBDO frameworks, consumer journey, social listening, etc)

VIII. Other responsibilities

• Performs all other necessary tasks that may be assigned by the Department Head from time to time

Minimum Qualifications

1. Graduate of any 4-year college course

2. Minimum 2 years relevant business experience in a related field

3. At least 1 year experience as a people manager

About the Role

We're looking for an experienced Account Director to lead key client relationships, drive growth, and manage high-performing teams in a fast-paced marketing/advertising environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the main point of contact for senior client leaders.
• Develop and present account strategies to meet client business goals.
• Lead account teams to deliver multi-channel campaigns on time and on budget.
• Provide strategic recommendations to improve client ROI and performance.
• Mentor and manage team members to ensure high-quality execution and growth.
• Oversee budgets, forecasts, and profitability of assigned accounts.
• Identify opportunities to expand services and grow client revenue.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in account management, marketing, or advertising.
• Proven success managing senior client relationships and large teams.
• Strong strategic thinking, communication, and leadership skills.
• Track record of driving business growth and delivering measurable results.
• Experience with Japanese clients is a strong plus.

Job Type: Permanent

Pay: From Php100,000.00 per month

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Company events
• Flextime
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Opportunities for promotion
• Paid training
• Promotion to permanent employee

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Ortigas: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Language:

• English (Required)

Work Location: In person

• Identify potential new clients and business opportunities and builds business relationship to generate profit for the company.
• Maintain strong client relationship through regular close contact account management that includes regular client visit and communication.
• Present Corporate Profile, Products & Services, and solutions to be offered to the customer.
• Coordinate with Technical & Pre Sales team in preparing sales proposal.
• Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
• Achieve sales target set by the company.
• Establish healthy relationship with principals, suppliers and business partners to ensure support for projects being worked on.
• Submit weekly activity reports and sales pipelines.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational seminars, webinars, and in-house trainings.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Creates a positive work environment that encourages employee participation and values the contribution of all employees.
• Understands the implementation of policies and procedures consistent with those of the organization to ensure efficient operation. (e.g. CRM & Escalation procedures)
• Pro-active thinking – thinks outside of her/his job description, and implements tasks that needs to be done without prior instructions from management
• Understands and Assist in the development and implementation of sales strategies to achieve company's objectives.
• Responsible for coordinating and attending all Marketing events conducted by the management, suppliers or principal

The Enterprise Account Director will be responsible for driving strategic sales growth and building long-term partnerships with enterprise customers. This role focuses on identifying new business opportunities, building a solid sales pipeline, expanding existing accounts, and positioning the company's solutions to deliver measurable business value to clients and achieving sales targets. The Enterprise Account Director will collaborate closely with technical, product, and customer success teams to craft tailored solutions that align with client objectives, accelerate digital transformation, and maximize ROI.

• Minimum 7 years experience in direct and indirect sales in enterprise solutions and system integration.
• Business and Technical Acumen: has the ability to develop and implement effective business and solution strategies to achieve sales targets and foster long-term client relationships.
• Proven success in achieving sales targets in large industries like Energy, Utilities, and Manufacturing
• Strong verbal and written communication, presentation, and negotiation skills are essential
• Very proficient in English, both written and verbal
• Has the ability to lead and work with cross functional teams and business partners.
• Very proficient in using productivity tools like CRM and MS Office.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From Php50,000.00 per month

Benefits:

• Company events
• Opportunities for promotion
• Promotion to permanent employee
• Work from home

Work Location: In person