# Freelance Account Director

**Company**: Ogilvy Advertising
**Location**: Melbourne, 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. Starting immediately, finishing at the end of the year.

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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