Account Cover
4–12 weeks£7,000or £9,000 a month
Senior director on 1–2 accounts: client calls, the quarterly review or reforecast, guiding the team, handover notes. 3 or 4 days a week.
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A senior director the client trusts while the seat is filled.
Senior director on 1–2 accounts: client calls, the quarterly review or reforecast, guiding the team, handover notes. 3 or 4 days a week.
What's included
4 jobs, covered from week 1.
- 01
Client calls
The senior voice on the client's calls from week 1.
- 02
The quarterly review or reforecast
Prepared and presented with the team.
- 03
Guiding the team
Day-to-day direction for the account team.
- 04
Handover notes
Written before the cover ends, for whoever takes the seat.
The 4 jobs of a cover, from start to handover
How a typical cover builds: what the director holds at each point.
- Start
- Client calls
- Week 1
- Client calls
- Guiding the team
- Review
- Client calls
- Guiding the team
- Review or reforecast
- Handover
- Client calls
- Guiding the team
- Review or reforecast
- Handover notes
Account Cover, from £7,000 a month.
Fixed fees, 50% upfront, no recruiter fee on top. Cover is billed monthly with 2 weeks' notice.
Billed monthly with 2 weeks' notice. No recruiter fee on top.
From the call to the handover
In your team within days.
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A free 30 minute session on the gapQuick answers.
How fast can you start?
Within days. A free 30 minute session on the pitch or the gap, a fixed fee proposal within 48 hours if you want one, then the work starts.
What happens when cover ends?
It steps down to a growth retainer, offered in week 2 of cover, or ends cleanly with handover notes.
How is it billed?
50% upfront. Cover is billed monthly with 2 weeks' notice.
Other services
In your team in days. Not 3 months.
A free cover plan: 30 minutes on the 3 risks on the account this month and a 30-day plan to put to your client. Start within days.
