Senior Account Manager / Account Director

Location: UK

Role: Full-Time

Conditions: Office (3 days a week – Tues, Wed, Thurs) and home – with occasional travel possible.

What we’re looking for:

Client management activities:

• Build and manage effective client relationships.
• Develop, oversee and implement delivery of comms strategies, messaging, plans and timelines, driving forward key projects and ensuring objectives are met and budgets are adhered to.
• Devise innovative and engaging ways to drive positive media coverage across all media channels – print, broadcast and online.
• Continually drive creativity throughout the accounts and the wider company, delivering unique ideas for campaigns and activations that add value to the client proposition.
• Creating Thought Leadership content with key global Execs.
• Ultimate responsibility for all aspects of quality control across each account.
• Managing team members to ensure they deliver the highest quality communications support.
• Plan, organise and prioritise workloads of team members, with a particular focus on ensuring that actual resources used for individual clients correspond to the contracted resources, flagging any issues to senior staff members.
• As circumstances require, be prepared to carry out other day-to-day account work, such as writing press releases and setting up media opportunities.

Company management activities – team:

• Provide professional guidance to junior team members to help them develop key skills and advance their careers.
• Undertake annual reviews and half-yearly appraisals for relevant team members.
• Act as solid and reliable support for senior team members.
• Solid communication skills with the ability to effectively manage upwards and down.
• Help to manage the team in producing market insights, including consumer, media and industry trends as well as being aware of competitor activity.

Company management activities – general:

• Help to implement current processes and take initiative on improving processes within the team and wider company.
• Set up and run key meetings when required e.g. strategic planning sessions, brainstorms.
• Adopt a proactive approach to seeking out new business opportunities.
• Preparing and assisting with new business pitches/presentations, in collaboration with the agencies Leadership team.

What skills you will need:

• Passionate about delivering high quality and effective communications with previous experience of consumer communications.
• Able to demonstrate the delivery of results in both the PR and digital spheres.
• Experience of managing teams and a team player, happy to help with basic work when needed.
• Experience in and passion for the automotive industry.
• Equally comfortable working autonomously and liaising closely with senior management.
• A self-starter who conducts themselves in a professional manner at all times.
• Ability to juggle conflicting priorities and work in a fluid and fast-paced environment.
• A strong communicator, able to manage upwards as well as prioritise their own work.
• Possesses the gravitas to deal with senior stakeholders.
• A strategic and creative thinker.
• First-class organisational skills and excellent attention to detail.
• Experience managing photo and video shoots.
• Tenacious, driven and resilient, with the appetite to build the Company business.

Some of the benefits we offer:

• Healthy agency bonus scheme.
• £250 wellbeing allowance.
• Employee Assistance Programme, which offers access to therapy, guidance around diet, gym, meditation and career coaching as well as discounts on high street chains.
• Monthly internal training sessions.
• Walks and runs by the beautiful River Thames.
• Social activities (Summer / Christmas parties (and some in-between)).
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• 25 days holiday + 2 half-day flexi-days.
• 4.30 pm finish on Fridays.

Fancy it then? Please fill in the enquiry form here and upload a CV.