PR & Marketing senior account manager

Responsibilities

• Delivering and managing a number of high-profile B2B and B2C campaigns across a range of food, drink and supplier brands.
• Hands-on role across growing client portfolio; day-to-day running of accounts.
• Managing a delivery team, budgets and being a key client contact.
• Pull together a presentation, sharp attention to detail and run client meetings autonomously.
• Development and delivery of campaigns and ensure campaigns meet client service levels and budgets.

Requirements

• PR and/or marketing agency experience at account manager level – 3+ years
• Food and drink experience and contacts within the industry are a must
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deliver against KPIs
• Strong commercial acumen
• Experience in team management with the ability to prioritise projects and deliver campaigns across all media within agreed client service levels and budgets
• Excellent communicator and writer
• Strong agency background – ideally solid agency-side experience who understands the fast pace and vibrancy of agency life
• Experience managing larger accounts
• Social media expertise – confident across platforms (mainly LinkedIn and Instagram)
• Interest in food and drink – willingness to learn the market is more important.

Preferred

• Interest in food and drink – experience in the foodservice sector would be beneficial but isn’t essential. A genuine interest in food and drink, and a willingness to learn the market, is more important.

Benefits

• Five weeks holiday
• Regular, funded foodie nights out and team lunches
• Free access to Hospitality Action’s Employee Assistance Programme – run by the industry charity with specific support for mental wellbeing. It’s completely confidential and gives the team access to free personal counselling, managerial advice and a portal full of wellness advice and coaching
• Flexible working: We work flexibly with all our employees (who rate our flexible working as ‘very good’/ ‘excellent’). We start between 6am and 10am – and finish from 3pm-6:30pm.
• Mentoring from a board member and a personal development plan
• Training time – half a day a month built into your working week so you can master new skills, immerse yourself in an industry event or take time to add another string to your bow