Account Manager

Golley Slater; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A marketing agency in Leeds is seeking an experienced Account Manager to enhance client relationships and oversee the implementation of campaigns. The ideal candidate will have experience in consumer brands, excellent communication skills, and adeptness in managing creative processes. The role offers benefits such as hybrid working, annual leave, and enhanced maternity/paternity leave.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holiday

Birthday Holiday Day

Enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity leave pay

Enhanced sick pay

Compassionate leave policies

Employee assistance programme

Life assurance (4 times annual salary)

Option to buy extra holiday

Pension scheme (5% employee, 3% employer)

Responsibilities

• Develop Client relationships, gaining trust and credibility.
• Attend meetings and presentations confidently.
• Take client briefs to ensure comprehensive information is gathered.
• Ensure projects run smoothly and to budget.
• Write Creative and Design briefs and present to Studio.
• Manage the Creative process and meet timelines.
• Schedule, coordinate and prepare materials for briefs/meetings.
• Manage artwork author’s corrections as needed.

Skills

Experience working in a Consumer Brands Account Executive role

Content management / production experience

Excellent writing and communication skills

Able to prioritise workload to tight deadlines

Commercial understanding and confident with numbers

High-quality work production

Willingness to learn and continuously develop

Job description

Vacancy / Job title : Account Manager

Location : Leeds

Job description

Golley Slater is looking for an Account Manager to join our thriving consumer brand independent.

This role will be a trusted point of contact for the Client, Suppliers, and internal Agency department. You will know your client business in detail and take responsibility for implementation and delivery of campaigns to brief, on time and to budget. Where necessary, you will question briefs, suggest applicable alternatives, and strive to add value to the Client’s business.

What you will be doing :

• Focusing on developing Client relationships, gaining trust and credibility.
• Attending meetings and presentations and be confident in running these when required.
• Taking client briefs and be competent in ensuring as full a brief as possible is obtained.
• Ensure that projects, once commissioned, run smoothly, accurately and to budget, on time and to an agreed standard.
• Focusing on writing Creative and Design briefs and presenting briefs to Studio.
• Managing the Creative process, ensuring timelines are met and that the Creative product is on brief.
• Assume overall responsibility for scheduling, co-ordination and preparation of information and materials required for artwork and pre-production briefs / meetings.
• Manage and brief artwork author’s corrections as WIP.

Essential skills and experience you need to be successful in the role are :

• Experience working in a Consumer Brands Account Executive role. (2-3 years)
• Content management / production experience.
• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• Able to prioritise workload to tight deadlines.
• Commercial understanding and confident with numbers
• Take pride in consistently producing high-quality work.
• A willingness to learn and continuously develop themselves.

Some of our benefits include :

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holiday.
• Birthday Holiday Day.
• Enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity leave pay.
• Enhanced sick pay
• Compassionate leave policies, including paid pregnancy loss leave
• Employee assistance programme including access to free counselling sessions.
• Life and service milestone awards
• Hybrid working and core hours (10 to 4)
• Life assurance (4 times annual salary)
• Option to buy extra holiday.
• Pension scheme (5% employee, 3% employer)