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You’ll be the senior day-to-day client lead, bringing together strategy, planning, investment, activation, performance and data to ensure great thinking translates into exceptional delivery.\nThis is more than a relationship-management role. You’ll need strong media judgement, commercial awareness and the confidence to have a point of view. You’ll move comfortably between senior client conversations, media planning, live campaign challenges, team leadership and account commercials.\nWhat You’ll Do\nLead the Client Relationship\nOwn the senior day-to-day client relationship, building trust through strong advice, reliable delivery and a deep understanding of the client’s business.\nGet underneath the brief, understanding the business challenge, audience, category and commercial context before translating it into a clear media challenge.\nLead client presentations, planning sessions, campaign reviews and senior stakeholder conversations.\nAct as a trusted media partner who can simplify complexity, challenge constructively and provide a clear recommendation.\nConnect Strategy to Execution\nLead the overall media response, connecting strategy, planning, investment, activation, performance, data and specialist capabilities around a clear direction.\nApply strong media judgement across channels, knowing what great work looks like and challenging teams when needed.\nEnsure strategy carries through into planning, investment and activation.\nTurn reporting into a point of view, helping clients understand what happened, why it matters, what was learned and what should happen next.\nStay close to campaign delivery and act early when timelines, budgets, workstreams or relationships begin to move off track.\nDrive Account Excellence\nEstablish clear ways of working across client and agency teams, ensuring responsibilities, decisions, deadlines and escalation paths are understood.\nMaintain commercial discipline across scope, fees, resourcing and forecasts.\nIdentify potential scope creep early and work with the appropriate stakeholders to manage it.\nIdentify opportunities to bring additional Accenture Song capabilities into the client relationship where they can solve unmet needs or create greater value.\nLead & Develop the Team\nProvide clear direction across multidisciplinary teams and competing priorities.\nCoach and develop team members, creating opportunities for people to build capability and take greater ownership.\nCreate an environment of accountability, collaboration and high-quality delivery.\nBring together specialists from across media, performance, data, technology and strategy to deliver connected client outcomes.\nWhat You’ll Bring\nStrong experience within a media agency environment across account leadership, communications planning or integrated media.\nExperience leading complex client accounts and managing senior client relationships.\nA strong understanding of how strategy, planning, investment, activation, performance and measurement work together across digital and offline media.\nThe confidence to advise and constructively challenge senior stakeholders.\nThe ability to turn complex or ambiguous business challenges into clear media problems and actionable recommendations.\nExcellent presentation and storytelling skills.\nStrong commercial capability, including experience managing scope, fees, resourcing and delivery.\nThe ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and create clarity across multiple priorities.\nExperience coaching and developing media talent.\nCuriosity, accountability and a genuine desire to make both the work and the team better.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nSuccess means becoming a trusted partner to the client, someone whose judgement is valued beyond the day-to-day management of the account.\nThe team has clarity and the space to produce its best work. Strategy connects through to execution. Challenges are addressed early. Commercial fundamentals remain under control.\nMost importantly, you’re helping the client make better media decisions and keeping the broader team focused on work that genuinely improves marketing outcomes.\nWhy Accenture Song?\nAt Accenture Song, we’re not just buying media. We’re reinventing how media works.\nYou’ll be part of a team bringing together media, creativity, data, technology and intelligence to solve complex client challenges and create new opportunities for growth.\nYou’ll have the opportunity to influence significant client relationships, lead multidisciplinary teams and help shape a modern approach to media built around connected thinking, technology and measurable outcomes.\nBecause the future of media won’t simply be traded.\nIt will be reinvented.\nAbout Accenture\nAccenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us atwww.accenture.com\nEqual Employment Opportunity Statement for Australia:\nAt Accenture, our intention is to foster a culture and a workplace in which all of our people feel a sense of belonging and are respected and empowered to do their best work. \nAs part of our talent strategy, we hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives and different lived experiences. These differences ensure that we have and attract the cognitive diversity to deliver a variety of perspectives, observations and insights which are essential to drive the innovation needed to reinvent, and we hold our leaders accountable for ensuring we have the most innovative and talented people in our industry.\nWe encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have a preferred communication method, please email  and cite the relevant Job Number, or contact us on +61 2 9005 5000.\nLearn how Accenture protects your personal data and know your rights in relation to your personal data. 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