Account Manager, AGENCY BELL

Guardian Jobs; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity to enhance your account and project management skills within a dynamic B2B design and communications agency. You will be an integral part of a well-structured client services team, working closely with global brands to deliver impactful communications projects. Your role will involve managing client relationships, ensuring projects run smoothly from inception to completion, and collaborating with various disciplines to create compelling messaging. If you're proactive, detail-oriented, and eager to learn in a vibrant studio environment, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Strong client handling skills with experience in B2B communications.
• Proven ability to manage projects from brief to completion.

Responsibilities

• Act as the link between writing, design, consultancy, and production teams.
• Communicate frequently with clients and proactively address issues.

Skills

Client Handling Skills

Project Management

Communication Skills

Emotional Intelligence

Job description

The speed read:

A chance to deepen your account and project management skills and accelerate your career in a B2B design and communications agency.

The facts:

You’ll sit within a well-structured client services team. You will be the gel between the disciplines: writing, design, consultancy, and production. You bring already strong client handling skills (you love this part of the role). The agency produces various communications projects, primarily large communication and messaging projects targeting senior business audiences. You will work with global brands and gain insights into understanding businesses: their internal teams, audiences, and messaging needs.

You can articulate projects you have managed clearly and engagingly, from receiving a client brief (sometimes needing clarification) to managing it through a design process, resulting in an annual report, campaign, corporate website or microsite, or an identity.

Day to day, you'll communicate frequently with clients and colleagues, using your initiative to address issues proactively.

You’ll have:

• Dealt directly with clients, preferably senior ones
• Experience managing B2B communications projects
• A natural interest in businesses and their communication strategies
• Strong communication skills and emotional intelligence
• Solid project administration and people management skills

You’ll be:

• Proactive and resourceful (no asking twice)
• Detail-oriented; you love the intricacies
• Skilled at reading a room, knowing when to speak or listen
• Eager to be in the studio 3-4 days a week, absorbing knowledge