Business Lead

Akcelo is an independent Brand Experience agency delivering powerful brand experiences that people love. We fuse creativity with experience design to solve business problems and generate white-space opportunities for some of the world's most famous brands and businesses.

The Business Lead is a senior, client-facing leadership role within Akcelo’s Account Management team. You’ll shape and grow a portfolio of high-value client relationships, lead commercial performance, and build trusted partnerships at C-Suite level. Working closely with a Client Partner, you’ll lead the charge on creating award winning work, set the strategic direction for the portfolio and guide team performance.

A natural relationship builder and commercial thinker, you’ll be a key voice in aligning our work to client objectives, elevating delivery, and creating opportunities for Akcelo to expand its impact across brand, digital, experience and innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Champion world class award winning work for some of Australia’s biggest brands
• Build, deepen and broaden senior client partnerships, creating strategic growth plans that drive revenue and expand the agency’s service offering
• Prepare and present accurate forecasts, ensuring growth plans are implemented and consistently achieved
• Lead C-Level engagement, shaping high-trust, long-term relationships
• Motivate and guide the Akcelo team, championing the client’s objectives while ensuring work aligns with the agency’s ambition and quality standards
• Oversee allocation and leadership of cross-discipline resources, ensuring high-quality delivery across every project
• Develop senior relationships through thought leadership, strategic counsel and meaningful connection
• Oversee all work across your portfolio, using risk mitigation and forward planning to keep projects on track for timing, quality and commercial performance
• Identify and activate opportunities for Akcelo to bring additional capability to clients, shaping new briefs and helping clients realise future needs

Key Requirements

• Minimum 8+ years in a senior Account Management role within a creative or advertising agency
• Demonstrated success leading client relationships and managing multiple complex projects
• Experience across integrated campaigns, with curiosity to expand across brand, film, digital, social, activations, retail, CX, Martech and lifecycle strategy
• Highly organised, detail-driven and committed to delivering excellence
• Energised by fast-paced, collaborative environments with tight turnarounds
• A confident communicator who builds trust across clients, teams and senior stakeholders
• Comfortable working across time zones and keeping momentum across regions
• Willing and able to travel for key moments and relationship building
• Passionate about great work and the people who bring it to life

Who are we?

Founded in 2019, Akcelo is expanding globally. We are passionate about transforming businesses through remarkable brand experiences and are guided by the following values:

• Genuine – Unpretentious, authentic and genuinely good humans.
• Experimental – Ditch the playbook. We make, break and build things, never fearing failure.
• Limitless – We have no ceilings, no boxes, no limits to the potential.
• Imaginative – We believe in magic. Creativity moves us.

Sound like something that you would love to be a part of?

We also offer employees benefits like Flex Fridays, gym memberships, free breakfast, regular social events, annual ski trips and more.

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Akcelo is committed to nurturing, creating and building a diverse environment. We encourage all applications from diverse backgrounds, identities, beliefs and abilities to apply for this or any role with us.