Account Director

3 weeks ago

Auckland City, New Zealand ANZ VMLY&R Full time

**About VML Auckland**

VML Auckland is a new-fashioned agency with a strong, independent culture. Closely connected our Australian siblings (VML Australia - Campaign Brief, The Work Agency of the Year 2023, Australia & APAC), and great friends and close partners with the fastest-growing and most innovative network of global VML offices.

Our team of 24 specialists in Auckland collaborate with an amazing group of clients to create connected brands that deliver commercial growth and meaningful positive difference to the lives of New Zealanders.

We're looking for someone who cares about people first, who is passionate about being involved in world class work, who gets excited about boundless possibilities and has an opinion.

Dogs are welcome too.

**About the Role**

We're looking for an experienced, passionate and collaborative Social Account Director -a proven expert in growing brand awareness and engagement through strategic use of social communities and social-first content. This role is a Full-time 12-Month Fixed-term Contract.

You'll have deep experience in leading relationships with clients' and creating advocacy with fans and customers. Driving innovation in the social space for our clients, and bringing your skill to our integrated teams is what gets you excited.

If you have ambition, your experience stacks up and you're a person who loves people, please get in touch.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Development of social media, content and influencer strategies and implementation
- Social audience and channel performance analysis, insights, learnings and recommendations based off social campaign successes
- Management and support of content creation for always on calendars and campaigns
- Day-to-day running of client accounts and overseeing running of brand pages
- Engagement with media, PR, account service, media, creative and production teams as needed
- Championing social media strategy and policy, being the go-to source for any social, content or influencer queries from across the agency
- Assisting with the development of integrated campaigns that involve and optimise social media and/or social content outputs
- Overseeing community management and content engagement
- Ensuring the delivery of all social media activity is consistent and co-ordinated across the organisation, and on-brand
- Drive overall knowledge of all areas of social and ensure this is put into practice to drive growth for the agency
- Managing and developing a Social Account Executive
- Management of client and job financials.

**Required Experience/Skills/Capabilities**
- At least 2 years' experience in an Account Director role
- Experienced in the implementation of social strategies and managing social communities
- Advanced and up-to-date knowledge of social platforms and platform technologies
- Understanding of social ad campaign management within META Business Suite and audience targeting
- Demonstrated understanding of each social media platform and their respective roles in a channel strategy
- Strong understanding of niche audiences and how to maximise social media to increase reach and performance;
- Proven experience working on influencer content campaign
- Excellent communication and written skills
- Exceptional time management and interpersonal skills
- Leadership and team management experience
- The ability to proficiently produce, edit and post-produce audio visual content is preferred, but not essential.
- Ability to work quickly and see ideas from ideation to delivery, including concepting and copywriting

**VML AUNZ Highlights**:
There are many things that make VML AUNZ an awesome place to work, but we think these are worth a special mention:

- Birthday Leave - a paid day off to celebrate your Birthday each year;
- Summer Days - 5 paid afternoons off each year during daylight savings time;
- Loyalty Leave - a paid day off each year to celebrate your work anniversary;
- Employee Assistance Program access and 24/7 support;
- LinkedIn Learning access for all employees.
- Retail partner discounts
- An all-round warm, inclusive and collaborative company culture - a no ego policy
- VML is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law._

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