Account Manager – Agency

Account Manager – Agency

Cirencester

£21,000 to £24,000

Excellent benefits

This role entails working with one of Clients Retail Clients. Working with traditional DM, eDM/digital, retail marketing and social media activity.

Tight deadlines are an integral part of the role so a cool-calm-collected personality is a must! You will have the ability to work on multiple projects at any one time and be able to prioritise in order to work well within a team environment. Previous Agency experience is essential.

Our Client develops highly creative work so as Account Manager you will need to have a keen sense of good creative and attention to detail this should come more naturally to you as you learn to interrogate creative work.

You will also need to be an effective communicator with the ability to delegate up when necessary. They want passion, enthusiasm and ambition. As part of the Client Services team, the ability to manage and motivate other departments (e.g. Creative) and external suppliers should be second nature to you.

Responsible for:

• Managing, from end-to-end, with help from your SAM, live projects through the agency ensuring correct processes and procedures are adhered to
• Ownership of weekly Status Reports, ensuring that these are despatched in a timely fashion to Clients
• Participating in weekly Status meetings, showing confidence and a thorough understanding of all projects in which you are involved – and Contact Reporting all such meetings (with input from SAM/AD)
• Establishing yourself as a strong account handler both internally and with the client, showing the ability to quickly build relationships, instilling trust & confidence in Client
• Maintaining clear and accurate documentation, files and recording notes and actions from meetings carefully
• Demonstrating a strong commercial sense by keeping a budget tracker and finance elements up to date and aiding the SAM/AD in forecasting each month

Experience

• in direct marketing (minimum of 2 years)
• Worked on large brands
• Strong commercial acumen
• Experience of working in multi-channel environment
• Has a strong sense of creative excellence and appropriateness
• Retail marketing experience preferred, but not a must
• Direct marketing agency experience preferred to Client-side

• Experience in the digital arena (including social media) would be preferred.

Knowledge

Needs to have a good understanding of;

• Agency process, from taking Client’s Creative Brief, through to Studio and Print
• digital/new media and its potential for communications
• A basic understanding of print production processes would be preferred.

Skills

• The ability to build and maintain appropriate and effective working relationships with key Clients, suppliers and colleagues alike
• Plans, organises and controls work and resources to achieve specified outcome (anticipates potential problems and accounts for them in work plan)
• A proven track record that you have worked on an account, which required you to juggle several projects, and manage several Clients at once, and all that entails, would be preferred.
• Able to produce compelling and motivating creative briefs with a clear, single minded, proposition Works well as part of a team and is cooperative, friendly and supportive towards other team members
• Possesses relevant depth and range of technical knowledge and skills

Benefits:

• Contributory Pension scheme
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays + birthday day off + Christmas closedown
• Discounted membership Cotswold Leisure Centre
• Employee Assistance Programme – access to a confidential advice service
• In house therapies – discounted
• Free car parking
• Life cover (death in service)
• Staff Socials
• Cycle to work scheme
• Childcare vouchers
• Give as you earn scheme
• Breakfast buffet on Mondays
• Beer fridge Fridays
• Sunny Fridays

Due to the high volume of responses that we receive for our advertisements we are unable to respond to all candidates. If you have not received a response within 5 working days of forwarding your CV to us, then unfortunately you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. Thank you for your interest and please do not hesitate to forward your CV to us again for other roles matching your skills and experience.

GB Solutions – Independent Recruitment Specialists acts as an employment agency (permanent) and as an employment business (temporary) – a free and confidential service to candidates.

For 14 years GB Solutions has provided an unrivalled service whilst developing a team of specialist consultants providing permanent, contract and temporary staff across a vast number of industries. As a member of the REC we are committed to working to the highest possible standards.