Account Director
What's the role about?:
Account Director
Fixed Term Contract (6 Months with the potential to extend/go permanent)
Salary: Competitive basic + 20% bonus opportunity + company car (Audi A6 24plate)Location: Home based (with 1 to 2 visits per week to client H/O in High Wycombe and few days a month to Powerforce H/O in Winnesh)
Powerforce are looking for an Account Director for a team partnering with a major consumer health company. The Account Director will have full accountability for all account operations and for setting, developing and delivering the strategic plan.This role also carries day to day responsibility for creating a culture of coaching and development within the account.
The AD will be be accountable for total delivery of the service within the budget and will have full P&L responsibility for the account including agreeing the annual and periodic KPIs with the customer and subsequently rolling these out to the field team.Additionally this role also owns the development and full implementation of best practice standards and “our way” both within the account and all our strategic teams.
Key tasks include:
- Ensure the account operates in line with contractual agreement
- Creation and implementation of the Strategic Account Plan and its evolvement
- Execution of the strategy and direction of the team
- Foster strong relationships with key stakeholders
- Creation and financial reconciliation of the annual and monthly budget and accounts
- Lead the MORs, QBRs and T2Ts
- Creation and presentation of insight and innovation to stakeholders
- Liaise with third party stakeholders to maximise benefit and information flow to the account
- Identification of training needs and implementation and creation of training
- Coaching and development of team members
- Delivery of targeted ROI and implementation of corrective action where appropriate
- Direct the field support team to ensure highest possible service levels are provided to the field and client
- Ensuring audit and accompaniment programmes are carried out in line with agreed targets / published guidelines
- Proactively review field processes and procedures and constructively challenge existing approach
- High commercial awareness, numerate, and P&L management experience
- Significant field team management and motivating others to succeed
- Track record of achieving targets
- Account management experience
If you would like to be part of our success, please apply today!
Early applications are strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to pause or close this vacancy prior to the listed closing date.
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