# Account Director (6 month FTC)

**Company**: DEPT®
**Location**: Toronto
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Salary**: $90,000 - $100,000 CAD
**Category**: Marketing
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

This is a 6-month fixed-term employee contract with a strong likelihood of extension.

As an Account Director at DEPT®, you will be responsible for building strong relationships with clients and overseeing the delivery of integrated campaigns.

**Job Purpose** You will create emotive yet conversion-focused ideas, products, and campaigns at scale and speed. Your specialty will be hyper-personalised, digital communications that change perceptions, shape new behaviours, and shift market share for clients.

**Responsibilities**

- Manage client accounts and projects from briefing through delivery, ensuring work is completed on time, on budget, and to a high standard.

- Build and maintain strong client relationships, acting as a trusted advisor and managing expectations.

- Coordinate cross-functional teams, balancing workloads and communicating client feedback effectively.

- Oversee project scope, budgets, contracts, and resources to maximise account performance and profitability.

- Lead account planning, proposals, presentations, and new business opportunities.

- Drive process improvements and ensure consistent delivery across all projects.

- Monitor account performance and provide strategic recommendations based on client objectives and results.

- Mentor and support junior team members, resolving project challenges and escalations.

- Lead and develop project teams, delegating work effectively and fostering collaboration.

- Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, and professional development.

- Encourage innovation, continuous improvement, and high-quality delivery across the team.

- Manage change effectively and communicate priorities to ensure smooth execution.

**Requirements**

- Experience delivering integrated, multi-channel marketing campaigns across paid digital, social, CRM, and web.

- Strong account, project, budget, and stakeholder management skills.

- Ability to confidently lead client conversations and manage expectations.

- Understanding of how work moves from brief through creative development, approvals, QA, and release.

- Experience coordinating multiple client teams, agency partners, and internal creative, strategy, technology, and production teams.

- Excellent organisation with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

- Strong communication, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.

- Experience leading and developing high-performing teams.

- Commercial awareness with business development and client growth experience.

- Knowledge of digital production and creative workflows.

- Proactive, adaptable, and solutions-focused with strong attention to detail.

- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and project management tools.

**Benefits**

- Flexible hybrid working policy.

- Early Finish Fridays.

- 15 days paid holiday annually.

- Birthday Leave.

- Access to dedicated mental health resources.

- DEPT® Allowance.

- Refreshments provided in the office.

- Enhanced family-friendly policies.

- Learning and Development opportunities.

- Buddy Program.

- Global DEPT® Cares Month.

The anticipated annual salary range for this position is $90,000 - $100,000 CAD.

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## Skills

### Required
- account management
- project management
- client relationships
- marketing campaigns
- team leadership
- budget management
- stakeholder management
- digital production
- creative workflows

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