Freelance VP Account Director

Freelance VP, Account Director

Location: White Plains, NY

Your Role:

You are charged with leading your account’s Business Leadership team in delivering effective Client relationship management, strategic recommendations to Client briefs and creative excellence across the full Client scope. You partner with the portfolio leadership team to ensure efficient delivery of scopes while also seeking opportunities for organic growth.

Ultimately, you work closely with other disciplines to ensure we are delivering and exceeding Client expectations while also playing a critical role driving innovation in how our agency works for our people, our work, our Clients, and our business. You are a senior, trusted advisor to your Clients and teams, someone who can consistently elevate strategic thinking, drive creative ambition, and own the Client’s business problems.

What You Do:

• Help lead Clients and brands as they look to push the boundaries of creative — and non-creative —deliverables.

• Lead a variety of integrated workstreams while helping to position the brand as a leader in their category.

• Elevate the strategic thinking around a brand as they evolve, given emerging technologies and platforms.

• Use insights and strategy to propel creative ideas which feel fresh, original and entirely unique.

• Develop strong relationships with both our Clients and your counterparts on the Creative and Strategy teams.

• Lead IAT teams of agencies within Omnicom and outside to deliver integrated Client solutions.

• Build on creative ideas and help shape and sharpen them to solve business problems in unexpected ways.

• Lead your integrated internal team as well as mentor across the larger Business Leadership team by identifying strengths and growth areas, providing feedback to enhance their work, and fostering a cohesive, healthy, and high-performing team environment.

• Develop deep understanding of Client business and category to identify opportunities beyond just delivering scoped work.

• Develop a deep understanding of internal resources and offerings to solve Client problems and provide unique solutions.

• Showcase a strong understanding of the creative development and production process, with the ability to collaborate with teams from client brief through final delivery, ensuring alignment, timely shipping, and trafficking.

• Drive agency culture, showing up, getting involved, and encouraging more junior team members to do the same.

• Scope management.

What We Expect From You/Common Expectations Associated with Role:

• Team health: psychological safety of your team; team members feel valued and clear on their roles and how we are measuring success.

• Creative output: consistently impactful creative work that begins to be recognized in global Creative Councils.

• Client experience & perception: ensuring our Clients see us as delivering meaningful work across channels and platforms that changes their business.

• Client trust & partnership: strong TRR results.

What You Bring:

• Demonstrated client and team leadership ability, as evidenced by excellent track record of success with major clients and agency teams.

• Broad understanding of marketing disciplines.

• Know how to nurture and protect big ideas.

• 360 production experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant area or equivalent.

• 8 years of experience (i.e. advertising agencies, brand consultancies, digital firms, client-side etc.), including 3-5 years supervisory experience.

Each team member plays a significant role in our success. We recognize that our teammembers' contributions may extend beyond this job description. The job description is designed to outline primaryresponsibilities, qualifications, and role scope. It does not restrict team members or the organization to only those specified duties.

Location:

This role requires being in a hybrid workplace with three days in-office in White Plains per week.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

The strength of our creative capability and innovative thinking has led to some of the world's most celebrated, effective, game-changing work for top brands. Maximizing that strength means bringing together an extensive mix of socially, culturally, and cognitively diverse talent — and creating conditions where they feel empowered to boldly share the fullest expression of their unique worldview. We fiercely believe in the power of creativity and innovation to positively influence society and inspire greater equity and inclusion within the communities we serve. So, every day we deliberately and intentionally choose to embody our global philosophy of Conscious Inclusion and, in turn, fuel our mission to help brands earn a meaningful role in people's lives.