Brandpie is an exciting and dynamic consultancy with a diverse and highly experienced team located across the UK and North America. We are world leaders in purpose-led transformation. Working with some of the world's largest B2B organisations to help them better understand and define their purpose. Our work with companies impacts the way they appear, communicate, operate and engage with their employees and the wider world. We do this through a unique blend of services across brand, culture and experience.

We pride ourselves in being a company that works in a smart, friendly, and co-operative way that respects everyone’s time and is understanding of that fact that work, however important, is just one part of your life. Our culture aspires to be creative and nurturing, with open, transparent communication. We’re a diverse and strategic bunch, with a mix of doers and thinkers, and we are looking for someone who’s like-minded and pragmatic to help us deliver great work.

The Role

We’re looking for an Account Director with at least 7 years of experience to join our Client Services Team in London. This is a maternity cover role starting mid June 2024.

As an Account Director you will be responsible for end to end management of smaller projects. You will also play a bigger role supporting on more complex, larger projects. You will proactively build relationships across Brandpie (inside and outside of the team) and find opportunities to get involved (directly or shadowing others).

This role offers a great opportunity to further develop your career in purpose led transformation, brand consulting and design, creative campaigns, culture change and employee experience design, where you’ll be challenged to wear multiple hats, work directly with our multi-disciplinary team, liaise with clients and represent us at Boardroom level. You’ll also be trusted to take ownership of your work and will be given significant responsibilities from day one.

Requirements

As an Account Director:

• You will have at least 7 years of experience working in leading management consultancy, brand consultancy or brand strategy or digital strategy consulting company.
• You are the main point of contact for smaller client projects - you take ownership and build a strong external relationships.
• You build strong relationships internally at Brandpie.
• You take ownership of managing a project making sure that key resources have the brief, budget and support that they need to deliver.
• You are on top of the time plan and budget management and report both to client and internal senior team.
• You share SoWs with clients for smaller projects and get them signed off.
• You plan for and help clients manage key stakeholders.
• You stay close to key contacts and ensure they feel supported and confident in the work being delivered.
• You highlight changes of scope in projects you're working on.
• You are not afraid to challenge areas that are not clear (both internally and with day to day client contacts).
• You identify logical 'next steps' within active projects that could become new revenue streams.
• Contribute to and own parts of new business pitches (as directed).
• You nurture and manage junior members of the Client Services team.

Mindset:

• Good listener. You nurture key relationships becoming strategic partner and advisor to the client.
• Clear communicator: You have strong communication skills and are comfortable working remotely and independently with the ability to collaborate successfully when working virtually.
• Team player: You love to generate fresh thinking and work with others, whether you are 1-1 or rolling your sleeves up with the broader team, you do your part to contribute to the creation of a brilliant ideas and solutions.
• Detailed oriented: You are able to manage multiple projects at once while maintaining attention to detail with each project.
• A self-starter: You are curious and excited to learn, with one finger on the pulse of the latest trends in business and branding.

Benefits

At Brandpie we believe supporting and helping everyone to grow as a team and an individual. We help do this through our comprehensive and competitive benefits package we offer:

• Generous reward package: We provide industry competitive salaries that reflect experience and ability. We anticipate the salary for this role will be between £55k- £65k per annum (depending on experience) and pro rata depending on the duration of the assignment. We offer additional benefits including medical and life insurance, gym membership contributions and a company pension scheme.
• A competitive holiday package: You will start with 23 days annual leave, which increases by 1 day per year to a maximum of 28 days. Our business usually closes between Christmas and New Year, providing an additional 3 days leave.
• Wellbeing support: We believe it’s vital people have time to focus on their wellbeing (both physical and mental). From day one you will be provided with a comprehensive core and mental health cover (currently with Vitality Health), subsidized gym membership, partner rewards and discounts.
• Flexi-time and place: Like many businesses, we are now fully virtual and will remain so until at least the start of 2022. We will not insist that our people are office based and respect everyone’s individual preference. We encourage flexible work patterns and want our people to find a fair work/life balance they are comfortable with.
• Solid technology kit: On joining you will receive new IT equipment including a laptop (Mac or PC) and an external HD screen for your home set-up. We also provide a contribution towards your monthly utility bills while you are home-based.

Our commitment to diversity

Brandpie is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, employ, train, reward and promote regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.