Campaigns & Advertising Account Manager

Account Manager / Campaigns: Advertising & Integrated Agency
This is a brand new role within an established team who are part of Scotland’s best known and loved integrated agencies. Working across some B2B, public sector and B2C accounts, we are looking for a well established Account Manager who wants to work on some big name accounts or a client side Marketing Campaign Manager who wants to join the dynamic cut & thrust of agency life!
As Account Manager, the main aim of your role is to support your Account Director in leading some major accounts within the agency, ensuring that they are profitable and growing. You are a strategic thinker, organised and can think on your feet. Day to day you will typically be working on a number of different clients across the agency so the role is very varied an includes anything from traditional campaigns to innovative tech - fully integrated, corporate communications, advertising/TV and much more.
You will lead support in strategy alongside the AD and the Strategy team, and be a key point of contact for your clients – leading meetings, ensuring delivery over and above every time – all on time and within budget. In addition to this, you will regularly be involved with pitches for new business, approaching these with both a creative and commercial mindset.
What we’re looking for in an Account Manager:
• Strategic thinking and driver for clients and the internal teams
• Shows passion and knowledge about their client’s business
• Excellent communication skills, particularly advanced listening, providing clarity and consistency to clients and internal teams
• Ability to manage, delegate and develop within the team
• Team player, jumps right in, sets examples - not afraid to get your hands dirty
• Excellent organisational/project management and forward planning skills - a proven track record
• Excellent commercial acumen, ensuring client growth year on year.
• Eye for creativity and how to challenge it
• Attention to detail
• Shows initiative and is pro-active, at a client and project level
• Understanding of all marketing channels and their role in the communications mix
• Understanding of media channels and ability to recommend appropriate channels (integrated)
• Understanding of role of research and planning
• Excellent finance and forecasting skills
• Right-hand person to Account Director and key part of the overall team
• Build positive relationship with strategy, creative, production and studio departments
• One of the key thinkers on your client accounts, shaping your team to deliver great work and results
• Builds real and trusting client relationships
• Knowlege of ATL advertising and integrated communications
• A voice of the agency within the industry
• Continually seeks to add value to client relationships and proactively suggests new ways that the agency can impress clients and further cement relationships
• Helps to lead client accounts within the agency, with overall responsibility for the client-agency relationship
• Responsible for managing your own key accounts where required
• Working with planners to interrogate client briefs, by challenging and asking questions, to develop communications briefs that meet business needs in an effective and accountable way.
• Supporting Strategists in writing inspirational creative briefs and going on to direct the strategic development of creative work, presenting and selling this effectively to clients.
• Ensuring the profitability and growth of client accounts.
• Identifying, developing and converting new business opportunities with existing and future agency clients.
• Managing the work, performance and professional development of team members.
• Leading and inspiring those outside of the core team, including creative teams and those in other agencies working on the same account.
• Fully understanding clients business and market and keeping on top of new developments and trends
• Add value to clients/agency business – and to the overall team and agency
• Support for Agency’s creative ethos – actively seek to help develop award winning work
• Make ideas work – through communicate, interrogation, discussion, debate – anything to get to the best one
• Ability to judge and sell good creative work
• Investigate added value opportunities for client accounts – be proactive, be speculative, be nosey
• Ability to deliver projects smoothly on time and on budget
• Adapting process where appropriate and makes good judgement calls
• Supports the team with problem solving and difficult situations
• Assists Account Director in forecasting future income streams and making sure projects and overall clients are profitable and prepped for growth
• Knowledge of all aspects of the agency process model and competent in progressing work within this framework such as:
• Preparing schedules and quotations
• Briefing planning, creative, production, studio - and proofing work as required
• Attending client meetings, shoots and recordings
• Ensures that client campaigns have appropriate results measurements/systems in place from the outset
• Input into writing effectiveness and marketing awards papers as appropriate
• Understanding of research and tracking, making recommendations
• Taking learnings from previous campaigns into future planning and discussions for future campaigns
• Projecting and cementing future opportunities and growth in every project
We’re looking for a solid Account Manager or Marketing Campaigns Manager with experience across integrated campaigns - you’ll have touched on advertising, direct and digital! We’re looking for someone with a minimum of 2 years at campaign delivery - a proven track record. What’s most important is your attitude and ability to “get things done”. Some financial services experience may be useful. If you are not from agency side, then you probably will have worked closely with them.
We may also look at someone taking a step up to Senior Account Manager. Salary totally open with a wide range of £28,000 - £36,000 + benefits. (AM level to £32k, more senior AM level to £36k).
FURTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
Gilchrist Recruitment Partnership are a specialist recruitment agency and recruiting partner within the Marketing, Digital communications/PR, Creative & Design and Advertising industry for Scotland, both agency and client side.
When submitting your application, please outline your current salary, salary expectations and notice period. It is also essential that you are already legally permitted to work in the UK with the associated paperwork if you are not a UK citizen.
If you are not currently living in Scotland, please explain/outline your plans and timelines for relocation to Scotland. We are a Scottish based recruiter who generally do not represent “remote” opportunities - thus you will be either living in Scotland or have solid plans to relocate.
We cannot guarantee a response to each individual application, made necessary by the level of response we receive. We will contact only those candidates we wish to shortlist. Apologies in advance for an inconvenience this may cause.
We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring that no applicant receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status or race.
Unless clearly stated otherwise, the advertised position is a permanent contract.