Account Director (F1)

Octagon is a global creative agency, with a speciality in sport and entertainment partnerships. With over 800 team members around the world, we work with brands to create big ideas that fans love and want to engage in, because it’s built in and around their passion. Where others see complexity we see possibility, and we believe in pushing authenticity, creativity, and longevity to do great things in the industry that lead the market. Octagon is now part of the Omnicom https://www.omc.com/ 

It’s a great space to play – in the world of culture, content, and events – and if you’d like to be a part of it, we would love to hear from you. 

Our values: empowerment, intelligence, inclusivity, innovation, and impact, guide our behaviours as people and shape the way that we operate as a team. As a senior member of the organisation, you will find ways to embody these in your own job as well as provide leadership and oversight on how those values come to life in all our staff and how we collectively operate. 

We’re excited to be recruiting for an outstanding Account Director to join our London office. This role will lead track-side hospitality programmes and brand activations for one of our motorsport clients, with a strong emphasis on end-to-end product supply, logistics and service delivery across the F1 season.  

 If you’re known for exceptional client service and have a proven history of delivering impactful live events, we’d love to hear from you. You’ll be a confident and inspiring people leader, committed to mentoring and developing your team, while driving outstanding results and playing a key role within the agency’s motorsport and experiential offering. 

 We’re looking for a passionate marketer with experience across Formula 1 sponsorships and events. A good understanding of the hospitality ecosystem within F1 will be key to this role, and ideally exposure to working with beverage brands, but not essential.  

You will be accountable for:  

We’re pleased to offer wide range of benefits, including but not limited to the following: 

• Core benefits (available from start date) – flexible holiday allowance, AXA private medical insurance, life assurance, income protection, pension scheme with 4.5% employer contribution, Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexible benefits (available after probation) –Gymflex, dental insurance, travel insurance, health cash plan, Cycleshceme, interest-free season ticket loans  
• A Flexible Workplace – we havea number of initiatives in place to ensure that our team have the flexibility to balance work with their lives, this includes flexible holiday and flexible working options. 
• We also runa number of internal programmes to support physical and mental wellbeing, alongside learning and development opportunities to support career development and progression.