Account Director – GCC

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🔥 55 minutes ago

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (UAE) – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💼 Account Executive

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The Boundary

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51 - 200 employees

🚘 Automotive

🏗️ Construction

💼 Consulting

Automotive • Construction • Consulting

The Boundary is an industry leader in creative visualisation, virtual reality, film and animation. Founded in 2014 by Peter Guthrie and Henry Goss, The Boundary has rapidly gained an international reputation for excellence in the visual representation of architecture and the built environment. Their services include traditional still images (CGIs) for printed media, animation and film, VFX, and immersive content including virtual reality and augmented reality. The company actively tests new technologies and develops new techniques to push the limits of what is possible in a technology-driven environment. They work across various sectors, including e-commerce, retail, automotive, and real estate, aiming to create compelling creative narratives tailored to each project's specific needs.

📋 Description

• Lead strategic client relationships as senior strategic lead and primary point of contact for key accounts • Develop detailed understanding of client objectives, stakeholders, priorities and long-term opportunities • Build account plans supporting retention, expansion, cross-selling and upselling • Partner with Business Development and regional leadership on proposals, pitches and commercial discussions • Provide delivery governance with Project Management, Production and Creative leaders • Identify risks early and keep strategic deliverables aligned with expectations • Own client concerns and escalations, establish resolution plans and maintain transparent communication • Support onboarding of high-value projects and represent Client Services in timelines, resourcing and creative-development discussions • Mentor Senior Managers and Managers across multiple accounts • Contribute to onboarding and training and provide feedback to improve commercial awareness and service quality • Champion systems, SOPs and shared templates; identify process gaps and lead post-mortems or service audits • Track account health, engagement, feedback, opportunities and risks for leadership teams

🎯 Requirements

• Typically eight or more years in strategic account management or a comparable client leadership role, with responsibility for significant, complex accounts • Proven record of retaining and expanding key relationships, identifying commercially sound opportunities and contributing to successful proposals or pitches • Background in a creative, advertising, architectural, real estate, SaaS or related professional-services business • Agency or creative-production experience particularly valuable • Strong commercial acumen, including scope, budgets, value and delivery trade-offs • Excellent presentation, negotiation and stakeholder-management skills • Practical knowledge of project-delivery workflows • Ability to work effectively with Project Management, Production, Creative and Finance teams • Experience mentoring colleagues, providing performance feedback and improving team capability • Proactive, solutions-focused, tenacious, organised and accountable approach • Ability to absorb new technical and industry knowledge quickly and respond constructively to feedback • Bachelor's degree in Management, Marketing, Real Estate or a related field preferred, or substantial relevant experience