Account Director – Performance Marketing

Role Overview

• Acting as the senior day-to-day point of contact for the client's EMEA and APAC marketing stakeholders, owning the relationship across regions and serving as the bridge to delivery teams (Paid Digital Media and Performance Marketing).
• Directing delivery teams to craft high-performance media strategies and deliver standout results against defined targets.
• Managing the operational delivery of media programs and campaigns, ensuring commitments and milestones are hit.
• Representing EMEA and APAC media on global status calls in US time zones, and working in partnership with the US Account Director to deliver a globally joined-up client experience.
• Taking financial ownership of the account, ensuring all workstreams and projects are delivered profitably and on budget.

Requirements

• Exceptional client management skills with a proven track record of influencing senior stakeholders both internally and externally.
• Strong knowledge of digital and performance media channels – in-platform operational capabilities are not essential, but a rich understanding of their role and how they work is essential.
• Demonstrable experience in a similar senior account role in a fast-paced agency setting, ideally on global technology clients or multi-region (EMEA and/or APAC) media accounts.
• Strategic ability to plan for the near and mid-term as well as day-to-day challenges.
• Confidence in presenting to clients and handling difficult situations that may arise.
• Exceptional financial acumen.
• Excellent people management skills, able to lead and direct cross-functional teams.
• Reporting on campaign performance to senior client stakeholders, summarizing insights, ‘so what’, and next steps.

Benefits

• Clearly scoped 2-month engagement with potential to extend.
• Remote or hybrid working (London / Oxford / Norwich offices available).
• Immediate start – onboarding support from day one.
• The chance to lead performance marketing for one of the world’s best-known technology brands across EMEA and APAC.
• Gravity Global is an equal opportunities employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, religion, age, sexuality, disability and other protected status as required by applicable law.