Average Account Director salary in London

Six Degrees is a leading secure, integrated cloud services provider, where everyone is welcome. We believe success lies in harnessing a truly diverse and inclusive culture. Our business protects UK organisations with the goal of enabling them to operate effectively and securely in the cloud, by giving them secure platforms to innovate and grow. We support our customers on their digital transformation journey regardless of their maturity. Our vision is to be the UK’s number one provider of secure, integrated cloud services to the small to mid-size market. Our Account Directors are the primary commercial and strategic engagement point between Six Degrees and our customer base. This role is responsible for increasing sales activity and growing revenue within our accounts. You will be building a pipeline, identifying and closing new business opportunities within existing clients and new logos across the defined account base allocated. This will involve establishing relationships with clients, developing a deep understanding of their challenges, building a detailed knowledge of Six Degrees products and capabilities, and ultimately ensuring we are best placed to capitalise on any new business opportunities as they arise. As a Key Account Director you will develop trusted advisor relationships with key accounts, customer stakeholders and executive sponsors as well as create and maintain an active account development plan. If you have previously delivered client-focused solutions to customer needs and have strong experience of managing multiple account projects at a time in the MSP sector, we'd love to hear from you. We believe it's important that candidates have an understanding of key issues in the sector that are driving spend and significant experience of managing an account base. Six Degrees is not interested in paying lip-service to diversity and inclusion, just observing our statutory duties. We work to continually re-affirm our commitment to cultivating a workplace and society that embraces and vigorously defends equity, diversity and inclusion. This includes all aspects of recruitment and employment - our recruitment and selection processes are open and fair, and we will always consider any reasonable adjustments or flexible working requirements. We are also an active member of the Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion (ENEI) who support us on this journey. Our recruitment process: We don’t like to have lengthy recruitment processes here at Six Degrees as it’s more important for us that you have the opportunity to meet with people you’ll work alongside. We will review all of our applications in detail and our Talent Acquisition team will arrange a telephone or video call if your background and experiences fits what we're looking. All being well, you will be invited to attend a behavioural interview with your line manager and members of the team to talk through your fit for the role in detail and explain more about Six Degrees. Some of our positions are so important to the business that we'll invite you back for a second and final interview, where you’ll be asked to complete a role-specific activity. After your final stage in the assessment process, we will confirm the outcome and hopefully welcome you to the Six Degrees family! Apply today at 6dg.co.uk

Your Clients will expect superior bespoke Insurance programmes and the best possible Risk Management advice. You will be dealing with CEO's and CFO's who want a close working relationship with their Insurance Expert. Accordingly you will have the credibility and presence to be effective at this level also the interpersonal skills to successfully build those relationships and be their Trusted Advisor. Our Client, a major name in Insurance Broking, has an excellent opportunity for an Account Director to lead the delivery of first class risk management service to a range of major clients. You will be responsible for the revenues of those clients and their interests will be at the heart of the way you do business. Often these Clients will be household names, so you will need the integrity to operate at this level. As an Account Director your responsibilities will include: Understand the clients' business and their Risk Management needs to provide first class Insurance solutionsEnsure Insurance solutions are appropriately priced to meet the clients' needs and deliver profitable businessUsing your technical knowledge to shape discussions with clients and provide guidance to the client teamsThinking strategically about your clients base and proactively bringing opportunities/ideas to the wider teamLead and deliver the end to end ongoing client serviceProactively develop client relationships to ensure excellent retention ratesManage KPIs/SLAs to ensure targets are met To be a successful Account Director you will demonstrate: First class Commercial Insurance knowledge including Professional IndemnityIntegrity, credibility and presence at Senior levelsProven experience managing a client team and providing advice and guidance on some of the more complex aspects around their day-to-day managementExcellent communication, negotiation and interpersonal skillsGenuine desire for excellent customer service and collaboration You will be focused on your client's needs and responsive to them, which would include visiting them when virtual meetings are not appropriate. Otherwise you will be able to work on a hybrid basis, visiting the London office to keep in touch with your team. As well as a really great Benefits package, you will be able to flex these to suit your lifestyle by selecting benefits (and the value of them) including: PensionLife AssurancePrivate MedicalHolidaysAnd many more

Our client is seeking an Account Director to join their team on a permanent basis. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing strong, long standing client relationships at a senior level to foster loyalty, trust and repeat business. The ideal candidate is highly collaborative, a self-starter, with strong problem solving and a track record of account growth and retention. Key responsibilities: Identify key areas of growth opportunity for your accounts including client development and retention planningCreate and articulate strategic marketing proposals with passion in response to client challenges or identified opportunitiesEnsuring projects and programs are delivered on-time, to budget and to the highest standardsStay close to client performance to support leading strategic conversations without the need for specialist involvementDemonstrate strong commercial acumen, managing client financials and service levelsManage resource requirements and planning for your client's and the wider businessNegotiate with client's and other teams to get timely and quality deliverables Key skills and experience: Experience presenting to senior stakeholders at a strategic levelTrack record of account growth and retentionExperience managing mid to large sized B2B client'sExperience managing paid media projectsSuperb organisational skills (always with a plan of action and forward thinking goals)Validated leadership capability that inspires and effectiveness working collaboratively and cross functionally FS1 Recruitment is a UK-based recruitment agency providing solutions within the Sales, Marketing and Creative fields for permanent, freelance and contract positions please contact us to discuss one of our many positions.