Entain is one of the world’s largest sports betting and gaming groups, operating both online and in the retail sector. With offices across five continents and licences in more than 20 countries, we operate some of the most well-known and iconic brands in the industry with more than 250 years of combined history – names such as Ladbrokes, partypoker, bwin and Coral. Within Entain, you have WAVE - Our specialist in-house creative agency, working with our brands to create world class advertising campaigns!
We now have a newly created role as an Account Director who will report into our Director of Creative Services. The role will be responsible for strategic leadership of their assigned brand(s) and will own the relationship with the senior brand and marketing stakeholders ensuring Wave is their creative partner and involved in all aspects of brand and campaign planning to understand the commercial priorities and ensure the Project Managers are aware and able to resource properly to execute across channels and countries.
The Account Director will be responsible for growing the Wave business by bringing more work in-house versus using external agency partners, as well as managing the profitability of their cost centre.
We are hiring 2 x Account Directors, whom each will look after a specific area of our business. One will be based within our Gibraltar office, and one here in the UK/ London.
Who are we looking for?
- Someone with previous experience working as a creative/ ad Senior Account Manager/ Director level previous before.
- Experienced at building solid partnerships with Brand and Marketing teams and senior stakeholders
- Confident planner - Someone who can ensure long term planning is in place and understanding of commercial priorities
- Can deliver against the KPIs for their assigned brand(s)
- Keen to work with our Director of Creative Services to optimise processes and ways of working to ensure agility and delivery against the SLA
- A confident leader when it comes to pitches for their assigned brand(s)
- Can take a lead all larger campaigns for their assigned brand(s) working in partnership with the Wave Producers, Project Managers and Creative teams
- Be an ambassador for Wave and win hearts and minds to ensure we’re the creative agency of choice
This is a brilliant opportunity, with a perfect time to start in this new role. This position will be ideal for someone who is keen to make a mark in team and can make a real difference to the success of Wave.
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