Account Manager – Maternity Cover
Location: Northampton /Hybrid
Job Description:
Our well-established agency client is seeking an Account Manager to join their team on a full-time FTC basis. The successful Account Manager will manage client projects, build and maintain successful client relationships, and support senior team members to deliver larger-scale strategic campaigns.
Key responsibilities:
- Independently manage small-to-medium client projects
- Build successful relationships with client contacts
- Financial management: keeping budgets, creating accurate cost estimates, raising invoices for all projects
- Management of housekeeping including general administration
- Use our in-house job management system to expected standards
- Interpret client briefs into clear, detailed and comprehensive creative briefs to the creative studio team
- Use a critical creative eye, strong proofreading skills and attention to detail to review all creative before it goes to client, to print or online
- Lead creative response/status meetings for small-to-medium sized projects and status meetings with internal & external stakeholders
- Support senior members of the team to deliver larger-scale strategic campaigns
- Multi-task and prioritise accounts/projects/stakeholders
Key skills and experience:
- Ideal candidate would have some Account Executive/Account Manager/Project Manager experience.
- A passion for clear, direct, and effective communications
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent verbal and written English
- Proficient in Microsoft and G-Suite programmes
- Excellent organisational, problem-solving, prioritisation and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects
- Strong communicator with the ability to develop relationships with suppliers, clients and colleagues
- Experience excelling within fast paced, high energy environments within any prior role/industry
Benefits:
- Flexible/hybrid working.
- 28 days per annum plus bank holidays and birthday off
- Life Insurance
- Income Protection
- Private medical insurance