Account Director, Digital

Location

Ireland

Posted

64 days ago

Salary

0

Seniority

Lead

Job Description

Account Director, Digital

Spark Brighter Thinking

JOB PURPOSE As a Director-level autonomous, proactive, and strategic thought leader, you will be responsible for defining and driving the global strategy and commercial success of Spark's digital localization portfolio for a major technology client. You will serve as the brand steward and trusted strategic partner, directing senior client relationships and leading the cross-functional internal teams. The ideal candidate brings deep localisation expertise, experience managing multi-million portfolio global accounts, and a proven ability to balance strategic thinking, commercial ownership, and operational leadership in a fast-paced agency environment. SCOPE & ACCOUNTABILITY - Responsibility and Ownership of a global digital localisation client account. - Ultimate Strategic and Commercial accountability for all digital account performance and growth. - Directing and sponsoring cross-functional internal teams and external partners. - Full P&L ownership and executive management of forecasting, margin attainment, and EBITDA targets. - Final decision-making and executive resolution point for all high-stakes client, delivery, and commercial issues. HOW YOU LEAD - You operate with autonomy and strategic confidence in complex, global environments. - You remain calm and composed under pressure, providing clarity in high-stakes situations for both clients and internal teams. - You make decisive, commercially sound decisions, even when they are difficult. - You hold teams accountable while fostering trust, engagement, and high performance. - You proactively escalate risks and navigate solutions through the right channels. - You demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and focus in a fast-paced agency setting. - You communicate with clarity and influence at all levels, including executive stakeholders. - You model reliability and integrity, doing what you say you will do. - You uphold Spark’s Core Values (6 C’s), policies, governance standards, and professional expectations. WHO YOU ARE - Curiosity: You seek deep commercial and operational understanding of your clients’ ecosystems, using insight and data to anticipate challenges and unlock growth. - Creativity: You shape innovative, scalable strategies that enhance digital localization performance, improve margin, and evolve digital delivery models. - Catalyst: You create momentum - aligning stakeholders, influencing decision-making, and driving initiatives that expand impact and long-term value. - Care: You build trusted, senior relationships grounded in integrity and accountability, balancing client advocacy with sustainable delivery. - Commitment: You take full ownership of performance—P&L, governance, quality, and strategic outcomes—delivering against clear KPIs. - Collaboration: You unite cross-functional teams around shared goals, clarity of accountability, and collective success. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES CLIENT PARTNERSHIP & STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT - Cultivate and champion key digital global client partnerships, serving as the lead strategic contact and primary trusted advisor. - Navigate and orchestrate complex stakeholder ecosystems to architect long-term value and expand Spark's service offerings. - Uphold executive brand stewardship, ensuring consistency, quality, and strategic alignment with client standards. - Design and lead senior-level governance forums, strategic reviews, and director-level communications. STRATEGIC & COMMERCIAL LEADERSHIP - Executive Ownership and P&L: Command the strategic and commercial performance of the digital localisation account. - Financial Accountability: Maintain absolute accountability for digital account financial health, ensuring key accounts consistently meet or exceed budgeted EBITDA and margin targets. - Growth Strategy: Develop, champion, and execute sophisticated growth, optimization, and innovation roadmaps for key client partnerships. - Business Development: Proactively identify, progress, and execute high-value upsell and cross-sell opportunities across Spark’s evolving service portfolio. - Executive Collaboration: Collaborate strategically with the Group VP on advanced forecasting, portfolio growth strategy, and long-term executive account planning. DELIVERY & OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE - Cross-Functional Orchestration: Strategically partner with Language Services, Global Operations, Finance, and regional Spark teams to ensure consistently excellent account delivery. - Process and Documentation Architecture: Lead the evaluation and redesign of core processes and workflows to identify and implement step-change improvements, system efficiencies, documentation management and strategic automation opportunities. - Onboarding Strategy: Direct the strategic setup and seamless integration of new partner accounts into Spark systems and workflows. - Integrated Delivery: Ensure digital localisation delivery architecture is fully integrated and synchronous with broader digital production pipelines. - Operational Mandate: Drive continuous, quantifiable improvement in quality standards, delivery velocity, operational scalability, and cost efficiency. KPIs & GOVERNANCE - Performance Definition: Define, establish, and enforce strategic objectives and high-impact KPIs for both Spark teams and executive-level client engagements. - Accountability: Oversee the measurement and performance management of direct reports and teams against defined commercial and operational outcomes. - Financial Control: Ensure executive-level accurate financial planning, precise forecasting, and transparent commercial reporting across all digital accounts. - Risk & Governance: Maintain and champion robust governance frameworks, proactive risk management, and effective executive escalation protocols. - Security Excellence: Ensure compliance with data security protocols, confidentiality standards, and regulatory requirements. PEOPLE & LEADERSHIP - Digital Team Leadership and Management: Oversee, lead, and inspire high-performing, multi-disciplinary global digital teams in a complex, fast-paced environments. - Culture Architect: Champion a culture defined by high accountability, strategic collaboration, and relentless continuous improvement to deliver high-quality, secure client solutions. - Talent Development: Provide strategic direction, mentorship, and outcome-focused performance management for direct reports. - Service Advocacy: Ensure all teams possess and can articulate and execute services for evolving Spark’s full-service portfolio, enabling effective operations and increased value to our partners.

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