Marketing and Communications Team Leader

My client an expert Marketing and Communications agency are looking for a talented and highly motivated team leader to head-up one of its account management teams. You will focus on their marketing, digital and design services, and will develop a specialism in exhibition and event-centric digital products. You’ll be a great marketer and passionate about branding and engagement, predominantly in a business to business environment.

You should be experienced in a senior agency-based account management role. Ideally you will have a marketing qualification and be excited about winning new business as well as developing existing relationships. You will be a great developer of people and a highly organised manager of projects; you should enjoy juggling lots of balls at any one time.

Working alongside specialist designers, digital developers and PR professionals, you will be responsible for coming up with creative ideas, developing excellent relationships with clients and overseeing the delivery of key projects.

You will manage at least two other team members and will advise the management team on the team’s performance and income.

You must be a strong people-person who can develop great relationships.

You need to be highly organised and have a fantastic eye for detail. You should be able to run projects across their full breadth of work, from animation to an exhibition stand, from a website to a digital marketing campaign and from a sales brochure to a game that results in behavioural change. You need to be a great thinker who can produce creative responses to business issues, ensuring that what you do is part of their clients’ own success story.

Everything needs to be delivered smartly, on time, on budget and on spec.

Reporting directly to the managing director, you will thrive in a fast-paced agency environment and have excellent knowledge of a range of digital or design products such as branding, stand design, marketing collateral, apps, social media, animation, film, games and websites.

Some of responsibilities

To provide creative energy and ideas

To win new work from new and existing clients

To ensure that our clients love us, and that the work of the team is delivered on time, on budget and on spec

To motivate and develop the team

To establish and develop great relationships with clients and colleagues

In particular, you will maintain an up-to-date understanding of marketing, design and digital trends in order to develop and deliver creative and effective services to clients

Lead the team, ensuring all projects are delivered on time and on budget

Manage, coach, develop and support team members

Produce tenders, proposals and quotes for new business, playing a lead role in developing and presenting innovative ideas, including attendance at pitches

Provide a strategic marketing injection into our activity for clients

Desirable skills and experience:

Qualification in marketing or digital marketing
Evidence of linking marketing and communication projects to match clients’ strategic objectives
Naturally creative and interested in idea generation
Experience of storyboarding for animation or film work
Experience of writing for web or other digital products
Experience of integrating film and digital into experiential environments and events
Familiarity with creative software or wire framing packages