Job Description
The opportunity
+ This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious integrated Account Director to work on our award- winning adidas account with a focus on sport & culture and specifically in the Outdoor space. In the world of sport, there are few brands who can rival adidas for the strength of their history as well as their future.
+ We, as Iris, have a key role to play in helping their brand continue to prosper, adapt and thrive across an ever-changing and ever-competitive landscape on and off the field.
How you’d spend your day
+ We work with adidas on everything from year-long brand strategy briefs, to quick turnaround social briefs, retail toolkit production, experiential and full TTL omnichannel creative campaigns on a global scale. So, the scope for variety within your role is huge with plenty of opportunity to develop new skills.
+ You’ll be joining a growing team and you’ll get to work with some of the best creative & strategic minds in the agency across the UK and our global offices.
+ Your ambition will be met with key responsibilities both within our team and with our clients and your personal growth will be encouraged at the same exciting pace as the account itself.
We’re looking for someone who
- Is self-motivated, wants to drive creative output and our ability to affect change and participation in our clients.
- Values the importance of their own organisational skills as much as the quality of our creative product
- Can be empathetic and understanding of our clients’ values, needs, ambitions and challenges
- Has a solid grounding of integrated advertising experience within client-side or agency with production experience.
- Can channel their passion for sport & creativity into their job every day (outdoor sports such as hiking, trail running etc are desirable)
- Has a passion for making great work & working as part of a high-paced and high-performing team
Who are we?
About Iris
We’re Iris. We’re For the Forward. A creative, strategy and innovation company that uses the power of participation to excite progress for businesses. As the relationship holder for our clients, we’re inviting you to participate in progress – moving yourself, your client and the wider world forward with every decision you make.
Our office
London is our HQ. In our riverside office you’ll find 380 talented people working with ambitious client partners. We’re the lead strategic & creative agency for Suzuki, Starbucks, adidas Football and Abrdn. And we’re a specialist partner for Barclays and Samsung, to name a couple.
The Iris Character
We have five core behaviours that we look for to help us to build a culture that fosters true progress: Courage, Storytelling, Collaboration, Empathy and Commitment.
What's in it for you?
- Flexible working – we offer you a balance of home and office working and the opportunity to choose your days when it suits you best
- Core hours –whether you want to enjoy an early gym session or pick up your children from school, you have the option to manage your own hours
- Vitality private health care
- BUPA dental care
- Pension scheme
- Enhanced Maternity package
- 4 months full pay after 1 years’ service
- 6 months full pay after 2 years’ service
- Enhanced Paternity package
- 4 weeks full pay after 1 years’ service
- IVF support – giving you flexibility to attend appointments and recover from procedures
- Additional Parental support – meaning you can be there for your family’s important moments’
- Personal access to our independent Financial Advisor
- Group income protection
- Sabbatical after five years of service
- Bike to Work Scheme
- Weekly football and yoga sessions
- Perkbox platform – giving you access to a wide range of discounts, curated wellbeing content and the 'Celebration Hub' to recognise and show appreciation to your colleagues
- Client discounts – adidas, Dreams and Feather & Black
Holiday
- 25 core days’ holiday
- Three extra days can be used for religious holidays
- Plus your birthday day off
- Plus an extra day after two and five years of service
- Climate Exchange Day
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
‘FOR THE FREE’is our global DE&I strategy. Its aim is to create a business where everyone feels free to be themselves and has the same opportunity and access to progress.Our DE&I strategy encourages courageous thinkers who champion outsider perspectives.‘FOR THE FREE’has three main pillars of activity:
Diversity-We want to invite difference. To be an organisation that is fully representative of different groups and reflects the city, country and world that we live in. We value our talents’ lived experiences – including gender, race, class, disability, neuro-diversity and sexual orientation.
Equity-We want to be fair to everyone. To remove barriers for individuals and groups and provide the bespoke access, support and opportunities that are needed to fully participate in our organisation. We are levelling the playing field.
Inclusion-We want everyone to feel at home. To provide a place where people can be themselves, express their unique identity and contribute to the life of our community
Privacy Statement
If you decide to apply for a role at Iris we will only keep the data provided by you for 2 years from the date we receive it, following which your data will then be destroyed. We have a legitimate interest to process the data you provide us and we will protect your rights in accordance with all applicable data legislation. If at any point you decide you would like us to delete the data we hold or have any more questions please email us atdpo@iris-worldwide.com.
You can find out more about ourPrivacy Policy here:http://www.iris-worldwide.com/privacy-policy/
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and recruit on talent alone, regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, religion, education, class, sexual orientation or disability. We champion diversity and believe it not only benefits, but enhances our creativity, our company and the wider society at large. We are For The Forward.