Business Director
Accenture
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Droga5, Part of Accenture Song
About Droga5
Droga5, part of Accenture Song, is one of the world's most awarded creative agencies, known for creating culturally impactful work that drives business growth. Combining creativity, technology, design and customer insight, we help leading brands solve complex challenges and create meaningful connections with their audiences.
About the Role
We're looking for an experienced Business Director to join our Sydney team.
This role is suited to a senior client leader with a strong track record in advertising, brand, creative or integrated agency environments. You'll be responsible for leading key client relationships, driving account growth, overseeing the development and delivery of breakthrough creative work, and partnering with multidisciplinary teams to create meaningful business outcomes.
As a trusted advisor to clients, you'll bring strategic thinking, commercial acumen and exceptional relationship management skills, ensuring we continue to deliver market-leading work while growing long-term partnerships.
Key Responsibilities
Lead and nurture senior client relationships across a portfolio of accounts.
Partner with strategic, creative and production teams to deliver integrated marketing and communications solutions.
Identify opportunities for organic account growth and new business development.
Provide strategic guidance and counsel to clients, helping solve complex business challenges.
Oversee campaign delivery from briefing through execution while ensuring quality, timing and budget expectations are met.
Manage forecasting, scopes of work and account profitability.
Lead client presentations, workshops and stakeholder engagement activities.
Mentor and develop junior members of the client services team.
Foster strong collaboration across Droga5 and the broader Accenture Song network.
What's in it for You?
Work alongside some of the industry's leading creative, strategy and technology talent.
Access the global scale, resources and innovation of Accenture Song.
Help shape iconic brands and meaningful customer experiences.
Thrive in a culture that values creativity, curiosity and continuous learning.
Enjoy flexible working arrangements and strong career development opportunities.
What We're Looking For
Significant experience in client leadership, account management or business leadership roles within an advertising, creative, media or integrated agency environment.
Demonstrated success managing large or complex client portfolios and building trusted senior stakeholder relationships.
Strong commercial capability, including experience managing budgets, forecasting and account profitability.
Experience leading integrated campaigns across multiple channels.
Excellent communication, presentation and negotiation skills.
A strategic mindset with the ability to balance creative ambition with commercial outcomes.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive collaboration.
Passion for creativity and its role in delivering business growth.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us at www.accenture.com
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Summary
Lead client relationships, drive account growth, oversee creative campaigns, and foster collaboration.
Job title
Business Director
Experience level
senior level
Minimum experience
5+ years exp
Industry
advertising
Location requirements
Sydney, on-site, flexible work possible
Salary
Not specified
Management role
Yes
Required skills
Preferred skills
Specializations
Structured locations inferred from the posting.
Unknown location