# Freelance Account Director

**Company**: Ogilvy Advertising
**Location**: Sydney, Australia
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Marketing
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We're looking for an experienced Freelance Account Director to join Ogilvy Advertising, working across two key accounts spanning FMCG and government.

As Freelance Account Director, you'll play a key role in leading client relationships, overseeing integrated campaign delivery and ensuring the team consistently delivers strategically strong, creatively excellent work.

Responsibilities:

- Lead client relationships, building trust and acting as a strategic partner across both accounts.

- Oversee integrated advertising campaigns from briefing and creative development through to production and execution.

- Manage multiple projects, priorities and timelines across two distinct client portfolios.

- Work closely with creative, strategy, production and media teams to deliver high-quality work.

- Provide clear direction to account teams, ensuring projects are delivered on time, on brief and to a high standard.

- Navigate complex stakeholder environments, confidently managing feedback, expectations and approvals.

- Identify opportunities to strengthen client partnerships and provide proactive recommendations.

- Manage budgets, resourcing, scopes and project profitability.

Requirements:

- Proven experience as an Account Director within an integrated agency.

- Strong experience leading integrated campaigns and managing senior client relationships.

- The ability to confidently manage multiple accounts, stakeholders and competing priorities.

- Excellent communication, presentation and negotiation skills.

- Strong commercial acumen, including experience managing budgets and agency resources.

- A proactive, solutions-focused approach and the ability to hit the ground running.

- A collaborative leadership style and the ability to bring teams together to deliver great work.

At Ogilvy, inclusivity is essential to our success. We're committed to building a workplace that embraces various perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds, knowing that diverse teams drive more impactful work.

## Skills

### Required
- account management
- client relationships
- campaign delivery
- budget management
- commercial acumen
- communication skills
- leadership

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