Account Director – East Midlands

Our client, a leader in their sector, is looking to appoint an Account Director.

This is a great opportunity to truly influence and shape the operational & strategic direction of a number of major accounts.

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of building and maintaining senior client relationships, as well as significant experience in leading and developing high performing account handling teams.

This role requires a professional, motivated and confident individual, who has the ability to work in a fast paced and demanding environment and is comfortable operating at a senior level.

This person will have the passion, energy and drive to deliver business objectives, coupled with strong influencing and nurturing skills that inspire others to do the same

Key Responsibilities include:
• Develop and maintain a full understanding of the immediate and extended business offering/proposition
• Solid relationship building and interaction with clients and third parties by demonstrating an understanding of their business, priorities and dynamics to help them be successful
• Accountability for the overall service delivery, ensuring our client delivers their promises and meet, if not exceed expectations.
• Developing comprehensive strategic account plans with key account initiatives that deliver growth and optimise profitability
• Project Management of key account initiatives, ensuring delivery on time and to brief
• Setting key targets for service, delivery and continuous improvement, with regular measurement, analysis and reporting of performance against these targets.

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This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a word document, depending on which sector you are in, to :-

Head of Packaging recruitment – Greg Nelson – greg@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head of Print recruitment–Neil Pearson – neil@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head Paper recruitment – Gary Young – gary@harrison-scott.co.uk

Board level, account management and all levels of sales vacancies –

George Thompson – george@harrison-scott.co.uk

Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector, for example a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management, in fact we have over 30 specialist categories. Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or contact you in the near future as soon a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.