Senior Account Director

About Us

GOVT VCCP brings together the creative minds and challenger spirit of GOVT, Ministry and VCCP Singapore. Working with clients across Asia-Pacific, our challenger attitude transforms the fortunes of our clients.

We have a motto: It only works if it all works, which is why we involve ourselves in far more than just advertising. With a thorough understanding of each client's business, we can challenge what's around it and then transform it.

Of course, it's not all about business. We love to be lauded with creative awards and are proud of our ever-increasing haul. Time and time again, we've seen a direct link between our award-winning work and the upturn in the fortunes of clients who ran it. So, here's another little motto: Good work works.

Our clients are the world's most recognisable challenger brands, including OCBC Bank, Cathay Pacific, Sentosa, Julie's Biscuits, Puma, Chick-fil-A, Deliveroo, Google, White Claw and Cadbury.

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Account Director to join our Client Services team.

Reporting to the Business Director or Managing Director, you will lead a portfolio of client accounts, building long-term partnerships while driving strategic, creative and commercial success for both our clients and the agency.

Working closely with Strategy, Creative, Production and specialist teams, you will provide senior leadership across multiple accounts, ensuring consistently outstanding work while identifying opportunities to grow existing business and strengthen client relationships. You will also play an important role in mentoring the wider Client Services team and contributing to the continued growth of the agency.

This may be the opportunity for you if you're looking to:

• Lead a portfolio of integrated client accounts across diverse brands and industries.
• Build long-term client partnerships and influence strategic business decisions.
• Drive commercial growth while delivering brave, effective creative work.
• Develop and inspire high-performing account servicing teams.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead a portfolio of client accounts, ensuring exceptional service, strategic thinking and commercial success.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, becoming a valued business partner.
• Oversee the planning and delivery of integrated campaigns across brand, social, digital, content and emerging channels.
• Provide strategic leadership and direction to cross-functional teams, ensuring work consistently meets the agency's creative standards.
• Oversee account profitability, scopes of work, budgets and resource planning to ensure sustainable commercial performance.
• Identify opportunities to grow existing client relationships through organic business development.
• Contribute to new business pitches and agency growth initiatives where required.
• Lead, mentor and develop Account Directors, Associate Account Directors and the wider Client Services team.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performing culture that supports creativity, accountability and continuous learning.

Our Ideal Candidate

• At least 8 years of experience in an integrated advertising or creative agency, with a proven track record of leading client accounts and high-performing teams.
• Curious by nature, with a desire to understand clients businesses and solve problems through creativity.
• Strong understanding of integrated marketing across brand, social, digital and content.
• An exceptional communicator who builds trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and internal teams.
• Proven ability to lead complex integrated campaigns and multiple client accounts simultaneously.
• Strong commercial acumen, with experience managing account profitability, forecasting, budgets and resource planning.
• Demonstrated experience identifying opportunities for organic account growth and contributing to new business development.
• An experienced people leader who enjoys mentoring, coaching and developing others.
• Confident leading strategic discussions, presentations and high-level client conversations.
• Collaborative, proactive and solutions-oriented.
• Passionate about producing brave, effective creative work that delivers meaningful results for clients.

We believe great work comes from different perspectives. It only works if it all works — which means building an inclusive team where everyone can thrive and be their authentic self.

GOVT VCCP is an equal opportunity employer. If you need any support during the application or interview process, just let us know.