# Account Director - Korea (Beauty) at WPP Production > South Korea · Director+ · Other · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Awppproduction%3A6201980004 (read 2026-11-08). ## Facts (observed) - Company: [WPP Production](https://alderhq.app/companies/wpp-production) - Location text: Seoul, Korea - Where it can be done from (inferred): South Korea (evidence: "Location: Seoul, Korea") - Posted: 2026-09-21 (49 days ago) - First seen by alder: 2026-11-07 · last verified: 2026-11-08 - Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times - Apply on the employer's site: https://www.wppproduction.com/careers/jobs/6201980004?gh_jid=6201980004 ## Pay and sponsorship - Posted pay: not posted ## Description (the employer's text) ### About WPP Production We are WPP Production - the unified global production company that brings together all of WPP's content producers, studios and craft experts into one connected organisation. We combine world-class human craft with next generation technology to originate, design, and deliver multi-channel content systems at scale. Built for borderless collaboration and powered by deep craft expertise, we are the production engine designed for today's always on, AI driven marketing world. ### About WPP WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com. The Role: This is a double-hatted role: you lead a brand category across the region, and you are the local market lead where you're based. As Category Lead, you drive priorities and delivery standards for your category everywhere it operates, working with your counterparts in the other markets to keep quality and approach consistent. As Local Market Lead, you own the day-to-day client relationship in your market. You're the person the client calls, the one accountable for what gets delivered, and the person expected to know that market's language, platforms, and regulatory landscape well enough to catch problems before the client has to. PMs report directly to you. ### What You'll Own ### Category expertise - Drive priorities and delivery standards for your category across every market it touches, not just your own Build category-specific knowledge that outlasts any single campaign Mirror the category-cluster model our media partner already runs, so category strategy and media planning move together, not separately ### Quality and brand integrity - Review global and regional toolkits and judge, realistically, what can be adapted and how given local platform and regulatory requirements - Hold the line on brand compliance and quality even under deadline pressure ### Local market ownership Serve as the single point of contact for adaptation and delivery in your market, brief through delivery - Own the local partnership and act as gatekeeper for commercial terms specific to your market - Ensure governance cadence is followed, e.g. weekly delivery syncs, monthly reviews, escalating on schedule rather than only when something breaks Identify and resolve local delivery challenges before they become client-facing issues ### Alignment with Media - Make sure adaptation work is aligned to Media's confirmed plan, not created independently and forced into it afterward Embed local platform and cultural knowledge into what gets adapted and how - Flag early where a market's platform requirements or regulatory constraints affect what's realistically deliverable ### Team leadership Lead your PMs directly and manage workload, quality, and growth - Set a standard the team wants to meet, not just comply with Flex team capacity as volume and campaign complexity shift versus running a fixed structure regardless of demand ### Commercial and operational rigor - Own volume and budget scoping for your market — translating expected campaign volume into resourcing needs, and contributing meaningfully to forecasting and budgeting conversations - Track performance against agreed KPIs, adjusting resourcing or approach as real demand data comes in - Apply financial compliance procedures correctly as a matter of course ### Escalation and judgement - Act as the escalation point for your market — resolving what can be resolved locally, and knowing precisely what needs to go to the Regional Lead instead of guessing - Bring recommended solutions to escalations, not just the problem ### What You'll Need - 8+ years in account or category leadership within content production or adaptation, ideally agency-side --- Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). 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