Senior Account Manager

Role Overview

• Consistently developing innovative and creative ideas and solutions for client campaigns
• Building relationships with (senior) clients; listen and understand individual client requirements and consistently meeting if not exceeding their expectations;
• Developing a clear understanding of your clients’ brand(s), category and customers
• Leading a team to deliver effective Social strategies for a range of clients and/or projects
• Leading and owning insights and monitoring projects, ensuring insights are integrated with creative and strategy development
• Monitoring and understanding your clients’ markets; be aware of market issues and competitive activity
• Keeping clients informed; ensure reports are on time and are kept in a central location so the rest of the team can locate if necessary
• Assisting in creating project briefs; briefing in and working with members of the wider team to develop an idea, strategy or campaign tactic; presenting and selling that idea to the client
• Working with Project Planners
• Producing accurate costs estimates, and ensuring they are signed off by Account Director and the client before work proceeds
• Ensuring all billing is completed on time
• Ensuring that campaigns run to agreed client budgets and clients approve all expenditure before it happens, particularly unexpected expenditure
• Assisting with the production of client reviews with senior clients
• Overseeing and owning the overall quality of the final deliverables on projects that you manage
• Ensuring your Account Director signs off all briefs and attends important project meetings
• Maintaining a central file of essential client information

Requirements

• Experience account handling, creative development or client facing project management experience
• Delivering digital & social campaigns
• Cross market campaign activation
• Line management experience
• Able to effectively manage client relationships while delivering projects to the highest standard and on time and to budget
• The ability to analyse and resolve problems quickly and effectively
• Able to interact with people at all levels demonstrating tact, diplomacy, discretion and maturity
• Must have strong listening skills
• Have an understanding of social media and its impact on brand
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• The ability to work under pressure whilst keeping an eye for detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

• Additional holiday day for each year of service, up to 27 days
• Additional festive shutdown period between Christmas and New Years
• Subsidised gym membership
• Private Medical Cover
• Company Pension Scheme
• Personal development fund
• Cycle to work scheme
• Regular company socials/away days,
• Regular breakfasts and Thursday drinks
• Flexible working, hybrid 2-3 office days per week
• Plus other cool perks