Senior Digital Account Manager / Leading Agency in Edinburgh

This is a new opportunity within a wonderful, award winning full service marketing agency who have their head office in Edinburgh. Account Managers work closely with clients, partners, suppliers and the agency’s in house team to deliver successful digital projects and online marketing campaigns for a range of blue chip clients.

The responsibilities of a Senior Account Manager include:

• CLIENT RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
  • Act as the main point of contact with clients
  • Attend regular meetings with clients at their location, and maintain contact through email & phone calls
  • Gain an understanding of clients’ business and in particular digital needs/focus, and relay this to the team
  • Deliver the agency’s output to clients and provide clear explanation and maintain transparency
• ANALYSIS & REPORTING
  • Produce monthly reporting for clients, updating them on work completed, work planned, and the performance of their website & marketing activity
  • Identify, using various analytics solutions, any issues with website performance and advise on a course of action to address
• STRATEGY & PLANNING
  • Work with the overall team of specialists to deliver your digital services & results for clients
  • Schedule work within the team and ensure this is delivered
  • Identify new opportunities for clients

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL:

• A confident, proactive attitude
• Demonstrably commercially-minded
• Excellent inter-personnel & communication skills
• Strong organisation & project management skills, with an aptitude for multi-tasking and managing various priorities
• At least 3 years experience working within account management within a digital agency (or agency like environment)
• Knowledge of digital marketing techniques including PPC, SEO, SEM, Social Media, etc. (mostly SEO)
• A working knowledge of Google Analytics, with a Google Analytics Individual Qualification being an added bonus
• Excellent understanding of Microsoft office packages

DESIRABLE:

• A degree in marketing / digital marketing or business-related subject
• Experience & knowledge of managing creative projects such as branding, design and website development
• Experience using Google AdWords, Bing Advertising, Facebook Ad Manager, Funnel, Slack, Trello, WordPress, Umbraco & other CMS’s
• Experience of digital solutions specific to the travel industry – such as online booking engines, PMS, Metasearch, etc.
• Some experience of web development languages such as HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc. may be advantageous

Salary purely dependent on skills & experience to £35,000 - £41,000 - fantastic benefits. Based Edinburgh - 3 days/week in the office, 2 days/week WFH.

FURTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

Gilchrist Recruitment Partnership are a specialist recruitment agency and recruiting partner within the Marketing, Digital communications/PR, Creative & Design and Advertising industry for Scotland, both agency and client side. When submitting your application, please outline your current salary, salary expectations and notice period. It is also essential that you are already legally permitted to work in the UK with the associated paperwork if you are not a UK citizen. If you are not currently living in Scotland, please explain/outline your plans and timelines for relocation to Scotland. We are a Scottish based recruiter who generally do not represent “remote” opportunities - thus you will be either living in Scotland or have solid plans to relocate.

We cannot guarantee a response to each individual application, made necessary by the level of response we receive. We will contact only those candidates we wish to shortlist. Apologies in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring that no applicant receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status or race. Unless clearly stated otherwise, the advertised position is a permanent contract.