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About This Role
Momentum has worked with American Express for over 20 years across all facets of its business. Our New York and London offices provide a truly collaborative approach, allowing us to deliver global work with local flavours and nuances.
Momentum work with American Express across a wide plethora of events across the team, from managing their activations as the official credit card partner of The Championships, Wimbledon to other cultural events such as Somerset House Summer Series, BST Hyde Park to an array of the busiest venues in UK and Europe. These properties allow American Express to help fans and Cardmembers redefine the way they experience events – whether facilitating presale hospitality access, elevating onsite experiences in meaningful ways, innovating Cardmember payment experiences, or bringing fans closer to the artists they love.
Momentum is responsible for the Strategic Direction, Creative Development, Design, Production, Execution and Delivery across all physical and virtual events and the Senior Account Director, based in London, will provide vital team strategic direction and valuable guidance to the team who are running the day-to-day of these projects.
What You'll Do
As Senior Account Director, you are responsible for the strategic leadership and execution of all elements of your client’s business, as well as act as a brand guardian within the wider Momentum American Express teams. Commercially, you are accountable for delivering revenue & appropriate profitability associated with your areas of responsibility. The role requires someone who can inspire and lead, but also offer best-in-class account handling and client servicing.
You and your team will sit at the centre of the action. You are the day-to-day contact for the senior clients, key stakeholders, inter-agency teams and the cross-discipline internal teams, you ensure the smooth running of campaigns making sure they are delivered on time, to budget and that you bring clarity to the creative delivery. You will set the tempo of the business and be able to think strategically and creatively. You will be looking to add value at all stages of campaigns and will be representing the agency on the world stage and helping us build our growing reputation.
To the client, it’s your ability to communicate what is happening, when it needs to happen and who needs to do that means they have no question that we can execute to the highest standards and trust us with their brand, business, and their personal careers.
Responsibilities
Successful oversight and delivery of American Express’ key brand experience and partnership campaigns.
Strategic business leadership crafting unique, innovative and compelling brand experiences around it’s flagship properties, managing a team of producers and production team in conjunction with internal project stakeholders
Developing and maintaining excellent, trusted client relationships, and with key Partners, key Stakeholders, Agency teams
Protecting the creative product using reason, relationship, and intelligence
Assume a leadership role across the inter-agency team and ensure all channels work seamlessly together – leading collaboration with interagency disciplines (including Strategy, Creative and Production) to translate client briefs into inspiring project plans)
Developing and maintaining excellent relationships with key partners in the music and entertainment industry
Financial reporting is key both internally and externally: You will manage client (often complex) budgets and billing structures whilst internally managing the team resource and scope to ensure that as an agency we are working efficiency and profitably
As a key senior member of the American Express team, you will work across various verticals outside of your day-to-day work, supporting the team in creating best-in-class work across the consumer portfolio, leveraging internal experts to help sell the agency offering
As our client’s trusted partner, you will develop a bullet proof relationship with them in delivering programs that ladder up to brand and business objectives, budget, and global experimental framework
It’s important to never settle for ‘ok’ and be willing to push back in order to create an flawless (and premium) experience for our clients
Having a real eye for detail is crucial
Our client’s business is bedded in service so it’s imperative that the selected candidate is able to personally demonstrate great service in everything we do
Provider leadership to the internal teams, offering support as needed and working to nurture direct reports in their own career progression
What We’re Looking For
Deep understanding of the nature of partnerships and brand experience
Experience of having worked on flagship partnerships, sponsorships and activations
Understanding on consumer/fan interactions in brand experience in the sport & entertainment space
Ability and confidence to manage complex activation projects to an exceptional standard
Agency experience is essential - we will need you to hit the ground running so knowing your briefs from your budgets is key
Tenacious and a real can-do attitude – we are a small but mighty team who work to deliver some of the best work within the agency
Strong proficiency with deck writing
Strong communication, project management and organizational skills – this account has strongly embedded and important process so while you will be fully trained on those processes, you’ll need to ensure they are adhered to
A proactive thinking who can drive projects forward and identify growth opportunities
Not be afraid to get stuck in. We've had directors cutting delegate name tags so the successful candidate should have a strong team spirit and willing to take on all and any task to access success
You play well with others, of all kinds. And others get you and want to hear more about what you are saying
The core competencies for our SAD’s are: Partnership activation and brand experience delivery, Relationship management, Strategic vision and a passion for experiential
You are fast enough to keep up with us – and we’re moving at light speed
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Seniority level
Director
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Sales and Business Development
Industries
Advertising Services
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