Sobre este puesto de Account Director en AKQA

AKQA · Presencial · Stockholm, Gothenburg

At AKQA (part of WPP), we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to build modern brands, create future experiences and accelerate new business ideas. With an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach, we design adaptive digital services and experiences that capture the imagination while delivering impressive returns for our clients.

The Client Services team is responsible for every facet of our enduring client partnerships – from ensuring an unwavering commitment, to delivering meaningful outcomes, to redefining the future of brands and businesses. With a profound empathy for our client’s business context, their customer base and society as a whole, they embrace an entrepreneurial mindset to identify and enable opportunities to nurture sustained growth. Equally, the team serves as gatekeepers to the well-being and ambitions of the internal team.

As an AKQA Account Director, you'll be instrumental in answering briefs and helping solve challenges across brand, business and experience for our cross-category clients. More than a manager or consultant, you will foster partnerships with clients to deliver measurable impact, helping come up with creative solutions to business problems and to crack open new opportunities. Your deep understanding of our clients’s brands, businesses and briefs will enable you to drive their digital transformation and effective results. And your ability to lead internal teams, acting as the liaison between client and team, will enable and empower the rest of your fellow team members to deliver the highest fidelity work.

You will work in an environment which fosters a meritocratic culture and encourages ownership, and you will be surrounded by some of the brightest minds in their fields.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

Broad agency experience across brand, experience, digital and integrated marketing disciplines required. You understand how to connect business, customer and brand objectives to unlock innovation, growth and transformational opportunities.
Establish collaborative partnerships with key senior clients to deliver against business objectives - you are responsible for their business performance and our client satisfaction score.
Continuously research, think, and develop thought provoking questions, ideas, pivots and proposals to our clients - you know how to organically grow clients by being 6 months ahead.
Consistently demonstrate your strategic capability and presentation skills in framing client challenges, defining project approaches and ensuring value based outcomes - you build trust with clients because you’re passionate about being in front of them.
Effectively empathise, synthesise and communicate client requirements in clear briefings - you know that the team’s success comes down to focus and clarity of the task at hand.
Motivate and coordinate multidisciplinary teams across studios, disciplines and partners - you understand that your team is your business and you should treat them with respect, empathy and inspiration.
Support continual process improvements across the AKQA’s evolving service offering - your ability to identify improvements is what sets you apart.

QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

Experience in digital, strategy, non-traditional advertising agency or business consulting environment.
Experience working with large-scale events and experiential marketing programmes is strongly preferred.
Thorough knowledge of omnichannel marketing communications.
Ability to identify opportunities to enhance clients’ businesses and autonomously grow relationships.
Strong understanding of the digital landscape, customer experience perspective and transformation.
Strong problem-solving skills; able to demonstrate how you’ve made a measurable difference to an organisation, project or team.
Experience of managing integrated global/regional campaigns that involve multiple external and internal stakeholders.
Able to effectively drive new business opportunities, from identification through to conversion, including presenting autonomously at senior levels.
A positive, proactive and collaborative attitude and passion for innovative work that is both ground-breaking and change-making.
Experience in authoring strategic proposals and commercial scopes.

Explore our extensive range of benefits here.

We believe great work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach including required in-office days. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

AKQA is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

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Sobre AKQA

CORE VALUES

Our founding values guide our work and the philosophy of our firm:

Innovation – pioneering ideas combined with the application of technology, to achieve lasting improvements in performance for our clients.

Service – outstanding service to our clients and colleagues, so we retain exceptional people and create trust-based relationships with clients.

Quality – adhere to the highest professional standards and superior quality.

Thought – recommending the best solutions through the most rigorous thinking process.

TEAMWORK

AKQA provides the highest quality ideas and innovation services to clients around the world. Our consistent track-record of results achieved for clients have set our firm apart. Through our focus on our core values, thought-leadership, rigorous delivery, and industry initiatives, AKQA is today one of the world’s most influential companies. Our goal is to become a high-performance environment where the most talented people flourish. With our perfectionist approach, people join AKQA for the opportunity to do the best work of their careers.

We create digital products, services and immersive experiences that are useful, usable, delightful and enjoyed by millions. We employ a rapid ideation and prototyping process that focuses on getting pilots into market quickly, helping clients make a sustained impact, increase their relevance and expand their connection. By embracing a pioneering approach that continues to lead and define the industry, we deliver cohesive blueprints that fulfil audience needs and surpass business goals.

LONG-TERM COMMITMENT

AKQA is committed to helping our team develop into the best possible practitioners and to providing them with an unparalleled foundation for their career. We help develop well-rounded professionals acquire leadership skills more quickly than at other organisations. Our employees benefit from the trusted long-term nature of our client relationships as well as the cultural alignment between the client and our own organisation, creating an optimum environment to deliver the work without any compromises.

ORGANISED TO SUCCEED

The core motivation at AKQA is product excellence. Although we are part of WPP, AKQA operates as an independent firm. Organically grown, our team works as a single firm, without geographic division. This means we can bring the best resources from our network to provide solutions for our clients.

In addition to our own Future Lions initiative, we have formed partnerships with many of the world’s leading universities so we can hire their best graduates. We combine youth and energy with maturity and experience to form a community that has a unique diversity of knowledge and exceptional professional judgement.

DEVELOPMENT

In addition to on-the-job training, AKQA offers a menu of training through the AKQA Academy and WPP Professional Development. This comprehensive curriculum of formal training is designed to equip our team with the substantive creative, engineering, business acumen, communications, management and analytical skills required to have professionally rewarding careers. AKQA Academy and WPP Professional Development courses are taught by leaders in their fields including AKQA’s own senior team and respected external experts.

To maintain the continuous focus on our core values, and provide a clear career path for our team, all of our Managing Directors and Executive Partners are promoted from within AKQA.

All AKQA employees and clients are invited to participate in the AKQA Insight and AKQA Tech.Insight thought leadership programmes. These comprise a series of informative lectures and Q&A sessions with authors, artists, athletes, scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs who are recognised leaders in their respective disciplines.

DIVERSITY

We believe that diversity is vital to AKQA’s ability to provide our clients with the best recommendations and are committed to fostering a varied and inclusive work environment. We provide our employees with the canvas, tools and confidence to help them advance their careers in a way that best suits them.

SUSTAINABILITY

At AKQA we believe everything a company does should be about taking the responsibility to be respectful towards the community and the environment. We consider community and pro-bono work to be an important commitment of our employees. We encourage our team to devote their skills to a broad range of pro-bono and community activities, working with myriad charitable and not-for-profit organisations. AKQA is part of WPP’s Sustainability initiatives. WPP is ranked no. 49 in an annual round-up of the World’s Greenest Companies.