Account Manager in London

There's an exciting opportunity to join our motorsports team at Octagon: we are currently seeking a highly motivated Account Manager to manage our clients’ partnerships in key world championships. The role requires experience and understanding of brand partnerships, event management, as well as excellent account management skills. Agency experience is beneficial.

Supported by a Senior Account Manager and Group Director, the candidate will be responsible for managing the client and team partnerships on a day-to-day basis. You will be managing partnership assets, client internal communications, local and global client activities, including guest experiences at races. If you have exceptional account, motorsport partnership and event management skills, this could be the role for you.

• Client Services & Partnership/Account Management
• Management of global and local client relationships, day-to-day account management, project management, internal team coordination
• Management of partnership relationship including approvals and on and off-track assets
• Creation and management of toolkits and marketing assets
• Managing the internal agency creative process and supporting content creation workstreams
• Support the development of annual program strategy; driving through to execution
• Proactive thinking to foresee issues and propose solutions before they arise
• Financial management of invoices, vendor payments, budget tracking documents, and reporting and reconciliation on overall project finances
• Coordination with other global Octagon account teams to ensure efficiencies and best practices across regions
• Reporting & optimisation of programme on an ongoing basis
• Hospitality & Event Management
• Logistical planning of guest experiences at motorsport races, including (but not limited to) race tickets, garage tours, paddock experiences, team appearances, and business sessions.
• Event development including (but not limited to) scheduling, logistics, health and safety, insurance, creative production, and briefing documentation providing in-depth brand relevant content and insight
• Research, procure, and contract relevant third-party suppliers
• Development of clients’ communication assets such as leadership briefing documents, market communications, guest itineraries.
• Financial account management including the creation of budgets, tracking, and reconciliation
• Development and delivery of pre- and post-event reporting
• On-site management of guests

This could be for you if:

• You have a passion for motorsports, with great knowledge, experience, and understanding of the landscape – particularly rights holders, teams, suppliers, and logistics
• You have experience managing brand partnerships and helping clients derive maximum value from them
• You have experience with on-site event management and execution within motorsport.
• You have outstanding organisation, interpersonal and communication skills (both oral and written)
• You have strong attention to detail, the ability to prioritise multiple tasks, and produce quality work within deadlines
• You think on your feet and use your initiative.
• You enjoy learning new things and can quickly adapt when things change
• You’re a natural at building relationships with just about anyone at any level in an organisation
• You enjoy solving problems and finding creative solutions to challenges
• You can collaborate across disciplines, departments and projects
• You are a real team player
• You have excellent computer skills – mastery of the Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• You have staff management experience
• You are willing to work weekends, holidays, and non-traditional hours, as required

About Octagon: Octagon is a global creative agency, with a specialty in sport and entertainment partnerships. With over 800 team members around the world, we work with brands to create big ideas that fans love and want to engage in, because it’s built in and around their passion. Where others see complexity we see possibility, and we believe in pushing authenticity, creativity, and longevity to do great things in the industry that lead the market.

Our Values: Our values: empowerment, intelligence, inclusivity, innovation, and impact, guide our behaviours as people and shape the way that we operate as a team. As a senior member of the organisation, you will find ways to embody these in your own job as well as provide leadership and oversight on how those values come to life in all our staff and how we collectively operate.

The salary is competitive. Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you.

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