
Senior, Enterprise Account Director
Sampl
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Brighton • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Senior
About the role
- Full ownership of a top-tier enterprise account, including retention, growth and long-term account health.
- Senior stakeholder relationships across marketing, brand, innovation and commercial teams.
- Clear account planning across brands, regions and buying centres.
- A personal revenue target tied to expansion and long-term value creation.**
- Lead senior-level discovery to uncover real business objectives, constraints and opportunities.
- Translate client goals into clear, prioritised account strategies.
- Shape annual plans, QBRs and PCAs that drive confidence, re-book and expansion.
- Act as the strategic bridge between the client and Sampl’s sales, product and campaign teams.**
- Navigate complex enterprise negotiations with confidence and clarity.
- Balance short-term campaign needs with long-term commercial outcomes.
- Ensure accurate forecasting, clean CRM hygiene and clear visibility of risks and opportunities.
- Bring a consultative, value-led approach to commercial conversations.**
- Set the standard for what “great” enterprise account management looks like at Sampl.
- Share insight, patterns and learning from the account with the wider AM and sales teams.
- Contribute to the evolution of account planning, QBR and PCA frameworks through practical use.
- Act as a trusted internal voice of the customer
Requirements
- 10+ years in account management, growing and retaining large enterprise clients
- Experience with FMCG, beauty or pet brands, within agency, SaaS, or consultative marketing
- Skilled at managing complex, multi-stakeholder organisations (CMO, VP Marketing, etc.)
- Comfortable operating across multiple brands, regions, and buying centres
- Experienced in structured discovery with senior stakeholders and translating into commercial strategy
- Strong commercial judgment balancing client objectives and long-term account value
- High operational discipline, including forecasting, planning and CRM hygiene (Salesforce preferred)
- Excellent communication and ability to simplify complexity for clients and internal teams
- Background in consultative or solution-led selling, navigating procurement and enterprise buying processes
- Familiarity with sampling, retail media, or performance-led marketing channels
- Experience shaping QBRs, PCAs or long-term account planning narratives****
Benefits
- - Competitive base salary plus performance bonus tied to account **
- - EMI share options**
- - Flexible hybrid working (2+ days per week in Brighton)**
- - Pension scheme**
- - Private healthcare & wellbeing benefits**
- - Generous holiday allowance, including year-end shutdown**
- - Opportunities for international exposure**
- - Bright, modern office and supportive, inclusive team culture****
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
account managementcommercial strategyforecastingplanningCRM hygieneconsultative sellingsolution-led sellingenterprise negotiationsaccount planningQBRs
Soft skills
communicationoperational disciplinestrategic thinkingrelationship managementconsultative approachcomplex problem solvinginsight sharingvalue creationstakeholder managementadaptability