Senior Account Director Sr. Manager

Accenture Song

Senior Account Director

Work Location: Mumbai | Years of experience: 12+ years | Entity: India Business | Level: Sr. Manager

About us

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries.

Accenture Song is world’s largest tech-powered creative group offering digital creative services. It’s a technology powered creative group working with designers, creators, and technologists to create unique customer experiences.

Formerly known as Accenture Interactive, the advertising and marketing services arm of Accenture was created by merging all of its agency subsidiaries into one. The move reflects Accenture’s post-pandemic world-class services that reinvent customer connections, sales, commerce and marketing and business innovation to meet clients’ accelerated demand for business growth through sustained customer relevance at the ever-changing speed of life.

The unit's capabilities span product and design; technology & platforms, creative, media and marketing strategy, and campaign, content and channel orchestration.

Job Summary

The Senior Account Director is the primary contact between Accenture Song and the client. In this role, the Director will leverage all internal expertise – Account Planning / Brand Strategy, creative and production to deliver on the client requirements.

Job Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for the client ensuring that Song meets their needs and build long-term relationships
• Project Leadership: Lead projects from concept to execution, coordinating with different teams viz, creative, strategy and operations to ensure successful and timely delivery of communication plans
• Manage the Account P&L including budget creation, allocation and control. Ensure client profitability based on pre-set goals
• Identify new business opportunities within existing account and grow the business
• Track, report and regulate client issues and performance and provide reports to senior management
• Mentor junior account management team members

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 – 12 years’ experience in an Account Management or similar role, preferably in an Agency setting
• A Master’s degree / MBA in business or marketing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in an Agency environment with creatives, strategists and clients
• Strong negotiation and interpersonal skills
• Prior experience working with MNC clients, preferably in the consumer tech space
• Ability to handle multiple projects and prioritize effectively
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Commercially minded, believes in the power of brands
• Proven ability to build and maintain strong client relationships

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 750,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us atwww.accenture.com

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