Overview

FCB Aotearoa
Senior Account Director
Location: Wellington | Full-time

FCB Aotearoa is not just an advertising agency — we’re known as The Change Agency, and we deliver meaningful, measurable change for our clients, our industry, and Aotearoa. And we do this by creating memorable and effective campaigns using all the brilliant smarts that only a truly integrated agency can.

We’re on the lookout for a superstar Senior Account Director to join our crack Wellington team.

You’ll be someone who:

  • Brings experience from a similar senior client service role
  • Has good vibes and a sharp mind, is positive, people-smart, and always down for a bit of banter (we don’t take ourselves too seriously, even when the work is)
  • Is a strategic thinker and skilled in the art of negotiation
  • Knows how to bring people together to deliver
  • Has led a team (or a direct report) and mentored and had their back
  • Is resilient and can hold it together when the going gets tough
  • Loves problem solving and brings intuitive decision-making abilities

What you’ll do:

  • Champion the work and encourage this approach within your team
  • Manage budgets, and contribute to achieving margins and profitability
  • Be a trusted client partner and orchestrator that contributes to delivering outstanding campaigns and solutions
  • Team player -build great relationships with your colleagues and be an upfront, no nonsense collaborator that everyone wants to work with
  • Be a coach, mentor and develop your direct reports, providing a high level of motivational leadership and support

FCB Aotearoa, is a tight-knit team of 145+ (Auckland/Wellington/Christchurch), diverse, talented, passionate humans and we strive to create an environment for people to bring their whole selves to work.  And we’re big on maintaining our diverse, equitable and inclusive culture for all our people.

Sound like you’ll fit in? If you’re ready to bring your expertise, energy, and leadership to an agency that’s all about meaningful change, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply with your CV and cover letter, answering our screening questions. We’d love to meet you.