Account Director – Health & Beauty
Location: Maidenhead (Hybrid Working) Salary: £45K – £55k+ plus benefits
Are you an experienced Account Director with a passion for retail, experiential marketing and building exceptional client partnerships?
We’re recruiting on behalf of an award-winning brand experience agency looking for a commercially minded Account Director to lead a major Health & Beauty retail account. This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of high-profile campaigns, develop long-term client relationships and drive strategic growth within a fast-paced agency environment.
The Role
Reporting to the Senior Account Director, you’ll lead the strategic and operational delivery of a key client programme, ensuring outstanding campaign execution, commercial success and client satisfaction.
You’ll act as a trusted advisor to clients, identifying growth opportunities, developing innovative experiential and retail solutions, and collaborating with internal specialists to deliver market-leading campaigns.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading and developing senior client relationships
- Driving account growth and identifying new commercial opportunities
- Translating client challenges into effective retail and experiential marketing solutions
- Managing budgets, forecasts, revenue and profitability targets
- Leading client presentations, programme reviews and governance meetings
- Working closely with Campaign Management, Creative and Marketing teams to ensure seamless delivery
- Supporting new business opportunities and retailer-funded initiatives
- Ensuring campaigns are delivered on time, on budget and exceed expectations
About You
You’ll bring a strong background in client services, experiential marketing, shopper marketing or retail activation and have experience managing complex client programmes.
We’re particularly interested in candidates who have:
- Health & Beauty, FMCG, Wellness or Lifestyle sector experience
- A proven track record of growing client accounts
- Strong commercial and financial management skills
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing abilities
- Experience delivering retail activations, brand experiences and marketing campaigns
- A strategic mindset combined with hands‑on delivery expertise
- Outstanding presentation and communication skills
What’s on Offer?
- Salary from £45,000+
- Hybrid working (2-3 days office / 2 days home working)
- 23 days holiday plus bank holidays, increasing with service
- Holiday buy and sell scheme
- Private medical and dental healthcare
- Life assurance
- Employee wellbeing programme
- Digital GP service
- Pension, cycle-to-work and car lease schemes
- Retail discounts and additional lifestyle benefits
As this opportunity is based in the UK, candidates will need to have the appropriate right to work in the UK. Right-to-work documentation will be checked as part of the recruitment process.
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