Account Manager

Manchester, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own the delivery of integrated campaigns with end-to-end ownership, coordinating across creative, strategy, production, and media to meet milestones while nurturing client trust and managing budgets and timelines.

  • Campaign execution: manage end-to-end delivery of high-level and lower-level campaigns, hitting milestones on schedule.
  • Cross-functional collaboration: align creative, production, strategy, and media for seamless campaign output.
  • Client & agency governance: act as day-to-day client contact, provide updates, deliver post-campaign analysis, and escalate risks.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Campaign Coordination & Execution: - Support the end-to-end delivery of high-level, complex integrated marketing campaigns, ensuring key milestones are met.
  • Own and manage the end-to-end delivery of lower-level integrated campaigns.
  • Assist in managing timelines, budgets, and resources to keep campaigns on track.
  • Coordinate across creative, production, strategy, and media teams to ensure seamless execution and resourcing.
  • Have a thorough understanding of your department's roles and responsibilities and all of the agency's processes. Actively drive best practice processes across all projects working with other team members to ensure a consistently high standard across the whole agency.
  • Work with the Senior Account Manager and Account Director to nurture existing client relationships and build confidence in the agency and its ability to deliver campaigns to the highest standard.
  • Present, alongside agency colleagues creative responses, strategy and insight ideas and concepts to the client
  • Act as a day-to-day contact for clients, providing regular updates and ensuring smooth communication.
  • Support the Campaign Director in managing agency partners, talent, agencies, and internal teams.
  • Assist in the preparation of campaign reports, status updates, and post-campaign analysis.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in campaign/project management within a creative, advertising, or marketing agency.
  • Experience within an agency environment.
  • Strong understanding of integrated marketing campaigns, including digital, social, experiential and content production.
  • Excellent organisational and communication skills, with strong attention to detail.
  • The ability to lead internal agency teams through campaign delivery.
  • The ability to lead clients through agency campaign delivery.
  • Ability to multitask and manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, often changing, environment is a must.
  • Strong team player with a proactive and problem-solving mindset.
  • Passion for sport, gaming, or wider culture is a must for this role.

Benefits

  • 🕒 Flexible & hybrid working
  • 🎉 Birthday off
  • 👶 Workplace nursery benefit
  • 👩‍👧‍👦 Enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
  • 🏥 Private medical insurance and health cash plan
  • 🤒 Enhanced sick leave
  • 🚴‍♂️ Cycle to Work scheme
  • 🐶 Dog friendly office
  • 🚗 EV salary sacrifice scheme
  • 📈 Personal development coaching
  • + more
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