Job ID: r20674
What You'll Do:
As a Team Lead Account Strategy for France, you will manage a team of 5 account strategists in order to grow the business with our existing advertisers and media agencies, through a multi-retailer and multi-product proposition cycle to close incremental opportunities thanks to the powerful insights of Criteo. You will be working with some of the largest & well-known brands with a focus on FMCG and Consumer Electronics.
Your responsibilities will include (but are not limited to):
- Lead a team of Account Strategists through example, by showing excellence in your current role and delivering consistent achievement against specific aggressive targets – Onboard new intern.
- Effectively manage relationships with top advertisers, develop strong relationships with top customers, connecting with key business executives and stakeholders.
- Proactively identify and suggest new processes toward enhancing Criteo’s service.
- Encourage feedback from customers to further strengthen Criteo’s products and services.
- Act as ‘point of contact’ for escalation issues.
- Identify team members’ strengths and areas of development and support their growth.
- Conduct 121’s with your team members weekly as well as team meetings.
- Report to your senior management on performance, market conditions, fluctuations in numbers and team growth/development potential or needs.
- Provide full prospect pipeline management and reporting, budget planning, forecasting, financial administrative coordination.
- Work collaboratively with internal partners from different departments to ensure excellent client service delivery and team alignment.
- Participating and/or leading internal initiatives to drive business to success (case studies…).
Who You Are:
- 5+ years of management experience in Account Strategy
- Proven track record working with brands, ideally in Retail Media
- Experience managing or collaborating with cross-functional teams
- Fluent French as a must
Skills
- Strong communication & interpersonal skills
- Client and partner leadership
- Ability to identify and manage one’s own emotions, as well as the emotions of others
- Strong self-criticism and openness for feedback and coaching
- Proven track record of exceeding goals and contributing to team success
- Strength in ideation and ability to apply creative solutions to everyday problems
- Natural leader who acts and challenges status quo.
- Understanding of the online advertising industry, advanced knowledge of the FR market & ecosystem
- Strong analytical skills
- Extremely proactive, organised, responsible, and proven ability to work well with a team
- Demonstrate authenticity, flexibility and shows genuine humility
We acknowledge that many candidates may not meet every single role requirement listed above. If your experience looks a little different from our requirements but you believe that you can still bring value to the role, we’d love to see your application!
Who We Are:
We’re Criteo, the Commerce Intelligence Platform. Criteo helps businesses turn shopper signals into commerce outcomes while delivering more relevant experiences for shoppers. We use proprietary commerce intelligence and AI decisioning to drive relevance for shoppers and performance for businesses.
At Criteo, our culture is as unique as it is diverse. From our offices across the globe or from the comfort of home, our 3,600 Criteos collaborate together to build an open, impactful, and forward-thinking environment.
We foster a workplace where everyone is valued, and employment decisions are based solely on skills, qualifications, and business needs—never on non-job-related factors or legally protected characteristics.
What We Offer:
🏢 Ways of working – Our hybrid model blends home with in-office experiences, making space for both.
📈 Grow with us – Learning, mentorship & career development programs.
💪 Your wellbeing matters – Health benefits, wellness perks & mental health support.
🤝 A team that cares – Diverse, inclusive, and globally connected.
💸 Fair pay & perks – Attractive salary, with performance-based rewards and family-friendly policies, plus the potential for equity depending on role and level.
Additional benefits may vary depending on the country where you work and the nature of your employment with Criteo.
