Consumer Senior Account Director

DNA Recruit is hiring for a top tier creative comms agency, looking for a sharp, highly organised Senior Account Director. This SAD role will be responsible for leading on major client work whilst guiding a talented team and helping to deliver culturally resonant, award winning campaigns. If you love fast paced, ideas led work and want to be at the heart of campaigns that get people talking, this is for you!

Key Responsibilities

• Lead 4-5 client accounts; owning delivery, quality control and day to day client relationships.
• Provide confident, senior level counsel; offering solutions, spotting risks and steering clients through fast moving news and cultural moments.
• Oversee shoots, events, influencer activity and integrated campaigns from planning through to execution.
• Drive high standards across media relations, social content, influencer partnerships and reporting.
• Manage team members with clarity and motivation, ensuring strong workflow, development and morale.
• Handle budgets, fee structures, supplier contracts and financial admin with commercial precision.
• Contribute to creative development, brainstorms, pitch support and growth opportunities across existing accounts.
• Play a visible role in agency culture - sharing expertise, supporting training sessions and celebrating team wins.

Key Requirements

• Solid experience operating at AD/SAD level within a busy PR, social or integrated agency.
• Exceptionally organised, detail driven and able to juggle multiple workstreams with ease.
• Strong client leader with the confidence to challenge thinking and offer well informed alternatives.
• Skilled across earned media, influencer strategy and social content planning.
• Hands on team leader who builds trust, motivates others and communicates clearly.
• Commercially savvy with experience managing budgets, scopes and resource planning.
• Creative, solutions focused and calm under pressure.

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DNA Recruit deliver dynamic recruitment, search and talent solutions and provide insight, knowledge, and credible introductions necessary for client side and agency roles. Areas we specialise in New Business, Account and Project Management, Strategy and Planning, Events, Experiential, Creative and User Experience Design, Technology, Product, Marketing and Data roles in permanent, contract and freelance recruitment, search and selection, talent advisory and consulting across the UK and globally.