Account Director

at  TMS

ABOUT US

tms unites technology, marketing, and sourcing to drive transformational change for the world’s leading brands. With 1,200+ employees across 26 countries, we offer an impressive range of solutions – from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery.
Operating as a creative agency, a strategic consultancy, a sourcing business, and a technology provider, we engage with over 110 million customers every single day for our clients, including McDonald’s, T-Mobile, O2, Starbucks, and adidas.
Most importantly, we’re a place where you can achieve great things, and be recognized as the best.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

You’ll currently be a strong experienced Account Director in an integrated / digital / promotional agency environment with a passion for FMCG and retail sectors. You’ll have a desire to achieve growth and will be working currently as part of a senior team.

Be calm under pressure and have excellent upwards and downwards management skills along with communication and organisational skills day to day internally and externally.

• You thrive on taking ownership of your projects and delivering best-in-class executions with your teams support
• Can confidently write presentations that sell in our work to the client complimenting the strategy where relevant
• Able to work collaboratively as part of a team
• Strong client management skills
• Experience of delivering digital campaigns
• Good business and financial acumen
• Experience of working with a creative department
• Appreciation of great creative work and the ability to judge accordingly
• Experience of working with promotional partners and suppliers
• Strong IT skills (MS Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Excellent presentation skills (writing and delivering)
• Knowledge of FMCG / retail market
• Marketing qualifications (e.g. ISP, IDM, CIM, IPM) desirable
• Educated to degree level (or equivalent)

We are McDonald’s UK & ROI Digital & Games agency, delivering experiences for nearly 4 million customers every day.
Our remit is incredibly varied and is focused on the Digital & Games output across the marketing team at East Finchley. We are an extension of their Marketing Team and work in an integrated fashion with our partner agencies to lead all Digital & Games activities (e.g. McDonald’s Monopoly, Winning Sips and Digital Sales promos on their My McDonald’s App) including digital, partnerships and sales promotions.
As an Account Director for the Digital & Games UK & ROI team you will be integral to delivering best in class brand engagement campaigns. You will be responsible for leading and developing key events in the UK & ROI calendar and you will be comfortable leading this from the front. From strategic development and understanding business challenges, to translating them into communication opportunities, looking at how digital and games plays a role in achieving KPI’s and connecting the McDonald’s brand with relevant audiences.
As the lead agency for Digital app sales promos, we take great pride in delivering engaging and high performing campaigns time after time. This role is responsible for leading Digital and Games Promotions that range from on pack into digital (in-app) and some tactical promotions such as prize draws etc that all work to build the activity we have planned on the annual calendar.
The role will also involve mentoring and developing a team that support you day to day – helping them to grow and progress, whilst delivering projects together.
This includes management of: mechanic development, partner and prize pool management, legal processes (from facilitating approvals on creative work, to helping develop the promotional Terms & Conditions), developing all the promotional elements supporting the all agency group as lead agency, as well as delivering the app game play and winners comms specifically within the UK market.
Finally, we guarantee that you will leave changed. Because we help our people achieve their goals. So come here to experience. To experiment. To make mistakes. To challenge your own limits.