Client Services Director
The role of Client Services Director is one of strong leadership. Overseeing several teams and accounts, they are seasoned agency professionals with an excellent grasp of the full marketing mix. The Account Directors and Group Account Directors will report on issues as well as account performance, allowing the Client Services Director to offer support and steer where necessary. They will have overall budgetary responsibility ensuring the agency is running accounts at a profitable margin and will often have control over recruitment to make sure the team is adequately staffed. The Client Services Director will sit on the management team or be part of the board, looking at the agency’s proposition as a whole, adapting and evolving to ensure continuous business growth. Although agency experience is important as part of the CV, not all account handlers develop into Client Services Directors. The role requires a real business head and commercial drive and is generally hands off from the day to day campaigns. The larger agencies aside, you will normally only find one Client Services Director per agency making theses roles (and experienced CSD candidates) highly sought after. Salary wise outside of London the role generally pays between £65,000 to £90,000 depending on regional variance and level of experience.
Bristol
Once an international centre for heavy industry, the last few decades has cemented the jewel in the crown of the Southwest, reinvented as a thumping hub of culture and creativity. From Clifton's iconic awe-inspiring suspension bridge to Brunel's ground-breaking steamship, it's a city engulfed in historical interest. And yet it’s also known for its alternative character, where you'll find a wealth of art collectives, community-run cafes and music venues dotted in and around the streets – not to mention murals left behind by the city's most notorious artiste, the ever mischievous and often controversial Banksy.
Bristol's modern economy is built on the creative media industry, manufacturing electronics and research and development into aerospace technologies. The revamped city-centre docks have been revitalised as information and educational centres of heritage and culture. With two city universities, the University of the West of England and the University of Bristol and a variety of art and sports organisations and venues including the Royal West of England Academy, Arnolfini, Spike Island, and the Memorial Stadium.
Connected to London and other major UK cities by road, rail, sea and air, thanks to the M5, M4, Bristol Temple Meads and Bristol Parkway rail stations and Bristol Airport. A hugely popular tourist destination, Bristol was selected in 2009 as one of the world's top ten cities by international travel publishers Eyewitness. The Sunday Times awarded Bristol the title of best city to live in, in Great Britain and it also won the European Green Capital Award in 2015.
Bristol is a popular relocation destination for Londoners due to a highly creative range of design agencies. It also hosts many financial service businesses offering a thrilling mixed climate of corporate and creative.
