Group Account Director
At a glance
Leadership Account Management role at OLIVER Agency - APAC. Manila.
Pay not stated
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What you'll do
- Guide the creative team based at Unilever, helping set direction and maintain strong work standards
- Match briefs with the right team members, then organize priorities, schedules and deadlines
- Protect brand consistency while presenting work to internal teams and clients
- Keep team workloads within agreed timelines as projects move forward
What you bring
- You bring strong client relationship skills, including the ability to guide clients and build productive partnerships
- You can sort incoming work and set priorities to keep workloads productive
- You understand account management and invoicing
- You can contribute creative ideas to studio work and learn how AI tools work and what they offer
Who this fits
This director-level role suits a strategic, steady client partner who can lead an onsite creative team and work closely with Unilever. It calls for someone who can balance agency service with integration into a client-side team.
From the employer
Established in 2004, OLIVER is the world’s first and only specialist in designing, building, and running bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries and counting. Our unique model drives creativity and efficiency, allowing us to deliver tailored solutions that resonate deeply with audiences.
As a part of The Brandtech Group, we're at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.
Role: Group Account Director
Location: Manila, Philippines
About the role:
Working in true collaboration with our client Unilever, at U-Studios we have one goal in mind: ‘to be the leading agency partner for the development of stunning and effective needs-based content and digital media campaigns’.
This is a great opportunity for a level headed, strategic thinker, who has gravitas with a client and would like to play a big part in defining and advancing a positive and highly productive design culture for OLIVER.
What you will be doing:
- To provide leadership and expertise to the onsite creative team at Unilever
- Identify the best resource within your team to deliver the brief.
- Schedule and manage team priorities and deadlines.
- Brand guardianship
- Presenting your work internally and to clients and manage workloads within agreed timings.
What you will need to be great in this role:
- Excellent client engagement skills with the ability to proactively organise and influence clients and build strong and effective working relationships.
- The ability to manage and filter workflow as well as organise and prioritise workloads to maximise productivity.
- Knowledge of account management and invoicing.
- Highly creative with the ability to generate ideas and practically contribute to studio output.
- Understanding of how to integrate with a client-side team whilst maintaining a top tier agency service.
- Passion for and inquisitive about AI and new technologies
- Understanding and knowledge of AI tools is beneficial, but ability to learn and digest benefits and features of AI tools is critical
Req ID: 18342
Our values shape everything we do:
Be Ambitious to succeed
Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible
Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work
Be always learning and listening to understand
Be Results-focused to exceed expectations
Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations
Our recruitment process does not employ artificial intelligence for selection. We use AI to support efficiency and consistency, not to replace human judgement. Candidate evaluation and selection are conducted without AI-supported screening or decision-making. We are committed to a fair, thoughtful, and equitable experience for every candidate.
OLIVER, a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.
OLIVER has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science-based emissions reduction targets. Collectively, we work towards our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.
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