Saatchi & Saatchi

Account Director

Saatchi & Saatchi$97K — $155K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience managing programs
  • Account team leader/senior client advisor
  • Project management expert
  • Experience in a supervisory role
  • Skilled in managing multiple major client relationships with various workstreams

Responsibilities

  • Drive results by collaborating with internal and external teams to deliver effective, on-strategy work
  • Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for clients on large-scale projects
  • Lead teams through research, qualification, creative, production, and global applications
  • Proactively anticipate project and client needs to ensure timely completion of tasks
  • Inspire confidence in the agency and client, seeking opportunities to enhance relationships and agency business

Benefits

  • Medical coverage
  • Dental coverage
  • Vision coverage
  • Disability coverage
  • 401K plan
  • Parental and family care leave
  • Family forming assistance
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Flexible time off
Full Job Description
Overview

We are looking for a proven Account Director to join a leading global bank account.

This is an exciting opportunity to play an important role leading popular brands and products. This critical account role is a key client partner leading a variety of workstreams and will work collaboratively with partners in strategy, creative, project management, production, and executive leaders.

Ideal candidate will have: video production experience and an ability to manage multiple client partners with confidence who sit across marketing, research and product.

Preferred Skills:
  • Ability to manage complex, fluid businesses.
  • Superb written and verbal presentation skills - a clear communicator with the ability to motivate and guide others
  • Proactive, solution-oriented, strategic thinker
  • Enthusiastic collaborator who enjoys working with other people and has the drive to make things happen in partnership with others.


Responsibilities

  • Team player with ability to drive results & create momentum through teamwork with internal teams, external teams, and agency partners, providing business and consumer insight, to help deliver seamless, breakthrough, on-strategy, and on-time work.
  • Act as a primary day-to-day client contact across several large-scale projects, managing the client relationships daily
  • Lead teams through centralized research, qualification, creative, production and global reapplication for a variety of projects.
  • Anticipate project and/or client needs to always be one step ahead daily of what needs to be accomplished.
  • Inspire Agency and Client confidence and seek opportunities to advance the client relationship and build agency business


Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience of managing programs
  • Account team leader/senior client advisor
  • Project management expert
  • Experience in a supervisory role
  • Ability to manage multiple major client relationships with multiple workstreams

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Différence" means we're better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

Compensation Range: USD $97,375.00 - USD $155,961.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 9/28/2026.

About Saatchi & Saatchi

Saatchi & Saatchi is a global advertising agency headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in London in 1970 by brothers Maurice and Charles Saatchi and is now part of the Publicis Groupe, a French multinational advertising and public relations company. Saatchi & Saatchi has over 6,000 employees in 114 countries and provides a range of advertising and marketing services to clients in various industries, including automotive, consumer goods, financial services, and telecommunications. The company is known for its creative and innovative advertising campaigns, including the iconic 'Nothing is Impossible' campaign for Toyota. Saatchi & Saatchi has won numerous awards for its work, including Cannes Lions, Clios, and Effies.
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