Account Director (Integrated Creative Campaigns)

Octagon is a creative agency specialising in sports, entertainment, and culture. We believe in powerful partnerships and generous ideas to earn the attention of fans. We work with brands to create big ideas and shared stories that fans love and want to play with. Why? Because today we believe you need to earn attention not buy it.

Here's some of the work we have delivered across the APAC region:

• Mastercard - The Sonic Trophy
  
• Standard Chartered - The Power of Numbers
  
• Unilever - Not Done Yet
  

What we're looking for in this role:

• A strong business and client leader;
  at 'Account Director' level or, with around 6-8 years' experience
• Experience in a creative agency environment working across campaigns from strategic to creative development, production and execution. Experience across comms, digital, social, traditional creative, or partnership campaigns, are all relevant and applicable
• The ability to;
  
  • think strategically, from a client, agency and industry point of view
  • build a high level of trust with clients, internal specialists and your teams - to bring people together and produce great work
  • see an opportunity, and extract/write a brief that meets the clients needs and let's us bring out our best
  • turn around a proposal, a team and a response that delivers well above expectations
  • work collaboratively with internal teams
• A brilliant communicator, clearly able to share ideas and expectations equally well
• A passionate and compassionate leader, able to oversee and inspire teams from planning through to execution
• Experience in partnerships (in any category, traditional or media) or in sports, gaming, or entertainment is all highly beneficial, but not critical

What you'll do:

• Handle primary client relationships, and take responsibility for responding to opportunities that deliver against client briefs, needs and objectives
• Tap into Octagon's in-house expertise in commercial consulting and partnerships, planning, creative campaign and design development, production (online and offline) to produce a wide range of work
• Oversee 2-3 key accounts, delivering creative campaigns around brand partnerships in sport ), and entertainment
• Managing account teams and development of direct reports
• Write decks, prepare SOWs and briefs, oversee timelines and project status across multiple streams
• Work in partnership with Australian and APAC leadership to support new business and growth opportunities
• Get involved in the agency's culture and operations