Design Account Director

**Design Account Director**

**Peterborough**

**Up to £45,000 DOE**

Are you a passionate Design Account Director, looking for an exciting new role?

Coulter Elite Resourcing are currently looking for a Design Account Director to work with one of their well-established and very successful clients based just outside of Peterborough working as part of their Client Management team.

As Design Account Director you will be responsible for working with Customers, clients and the internal departments to successfully produce creative and compelling solutions from initial concept to completion.
The business is a fast paced creative agency working with a large, varied client base.

**Principle Responsibilities for the Design Account Director:

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- Leading, managing and developing existing key design accounts
- Managing the outputs of multi-faceted projects and campaigns on a day-to-day basis, working with colleagues to deliver high quality projects
- Managing new business opportunities, lead and mange new business pitches.
- Building relationships at a senior level, managing communications, and working on issue resolutions as required
- Managing a small team of design-focused client services managers.
- Overview of skills and experience required
- You will have excellent communication and written skills and show a good track record of accomplished projects and business development achievements.
- Lead and manage pitch responses, working with the MD and CD to develop responses and be part of the pitching team
- Develop, build and maintain senior client relationships, with the ability to spot opportunities to further develop accounts and win work
- Manage and liaise with inhouse teams to deliver quality creative projects on time and to budget
- Direct and project manage a variety of both on and offline design projects
- Write different types of briefs; design, campaigns, brochures, etc. Demonstrate skill at translating client needs into accessible, coherent briefs.
- Write fee proposals and manage profitable accounts
- Write project proposals, project plans and schedules to deliver a range of tactics to deadline
- Manage projects through from start to finish liaising with the MD to discuss any potential issues

**Person specification:

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- 5 years' account management experience.
- Ideally agency experience - ability to manage a large number of projects at any one time.
- Business development and new business skills
- Excellent organisational and planning skills
- Excellent written and verbal skills, as well as presentation skills
- An eye for detail, thoroughness, and the desire to see projects through to an excellent standard
- Be resourceful and flexible in your approach to project assignments.

**This is a full time permanent Design Account Director position,
**Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm with a potential hybrid working split of 3/2.
Annual salary of up to £45,000 plus annual company benefits to include:
25 days holiday + birthday + bank holidays
2% employer pension contribution
Significant companywide bonuses
Personal development investment
Great social calendar
Vibrant, ambitious culture

If this Design Account Director position sounds like you, then please forward your CV to Hollie at Coulter Elite Resourcing.

Coulter Elite Resourcing is an independent recruitment consultancy with a head office in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire supplying permanent, temporary and contract personnel from office junior through to the highest levels of management both locally and nationally.Our area of recruitment are Commercial, FMCG, Engineering, Technical and IT

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