Client Director Starcom

Permanent employee, Full-time · 1WML

60,000 - 70,000 € per year

The Role

Overview:
This role assumes responsibility for managing multiple client accounts. This role requires strong
leadership and project management skills and also requires collaboration and communication
with the wider company in order to add value to clients business. The ideal candidate should
have strong people management skills as well as having a focus on strategy, innovation,
execution and client service excellence.

Responsibilities / Key Performance Indictors (KPIs):
The role of Client Director is to be the client lead for clients. The Client Director is responsible
for the development and the deployment of the media strategy, including ownership and
quality control of the whole media planning process from strategy to delivery. They will instil a
culture of innovation within the team as well as have a clear understanding of the strengths
and opportunity offered by each Practice area in Core and the benefit that they can lend to
solving our clients problems. The Client Director is also responsible for people management of
all of their direct reports including management and recording of PMAD and day to day
feedback.

Your profile

Experience:
• Previous media experience in a similar role
• Previous experience managing a team of people
• Highly proficient in all Microsoft Office programs
• Experience project managing large scale, complex media campaigns is essential
• High level of business and financial acumen

Person Specification:
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Good listener - ability to understand what the client requirements are
• Well presented and confident
• Team player - be solution focused, and responsible for the development and motivation of junior team members
• Have the ability to self-manage and work on ones own initiative
• To be energetic, innovative and creative when communicating with clients and colleagues
• Learn on a continuous basis while also sharing knowledge
• Leadership skills – take the lead role during brainstorming sessions, review new areas of opportunity for the company, generate new ideas for clients and the organisation
• Highly organised individual that can manage multiple teams and their delivery of work
• Strategic thinker - think more strategically about the clients and their business, be able to see where improvements can be made and implement these changes
• Understands and appreciates the benefit of processes and how it links to company success
• Take an interest in the management and implementation of new revenue streams for the company

Why us?

Flexible and hybrid working
24/7 access to professional development through LinkedIn Learning along with career progression and mentoring
The opportunity to work across a huge range of clients within so many different categories from sport, retail, food and drink, to alcohol, insurance, banking and so much more
21 days annual leave plus a day off on your birthday, company closure days at Christmas and early finish on bank holiday Fridays
A company culture that promotes work-life balance
Family-focused benefits including paid maternity and paternity leave as well as maternity phase back program, fertility treatment supports and paid pregnancy loss leave
Access to mental health and well-being programs including paid health insurance for you and your dependents under 18
Professional financial advice; employer contributory pension and life assurance
Make a difference by joining our D&I, CSR, Green, Social or Great Place to Work committees; you’ll get an extra days leave for your efforts.
And lots more …

Salary Range

€60,000-€70,000 DOE

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About us

Core is Ireland's largest marketing communications company with over 400 people working across the key areas of marketing communications - research, data science, strategy, planning, creative development and implementation. We are now a collective of nine practices, working towards a single purpose - to expand the possibilities of what brands can achieve. At Core, we believe that change can move us forward and compel us towards new possibilities. Our wonderful people are at the centre of our success. It is essential that we keep building a high-trust working environment that supports our people and enables them to flourish. There is no magic formula for becoming a great place to work. Instead, it involves working together, through constant change, to match the personal dreams and ambitions of our people with the aspirations of the organisation.

Over the years, we have cemented our position as a great place to work, time and time again. Voted Agency Network of the Year for 2024. This year, we were again voted as one of Irelands Top 10 Best Workplaces by the Great Place to Work Institute for the 16th year consecutively.

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We are looking forward to hearing from you!

Thank you for your interest in Core. Please ensure when applying for roles you upload a copy of your CV, and a cover letter no more than 300 words as to why the role is for you. Should you have any difficulties with your application, please email HR@onecore.ie.

Please note this role is only a flexible hybrid role within the Republic of Ireland. Submitting an application indicates to us that you have intention to relocate or are already living here.