Senior Account Manager

twentysix; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a highly motivated senior account manager to join their dynamic team. This role offers the opportunity to manage key accounts, develop marketing strategies, and ensure client satisfaction. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication and planning skills, with a proven track record in marketing or agency roles. With the flexibility of part remote working and a vibrant work environment, this position is perfect for someone looking to grow their career in a supportive agency that values creativity and results. If you are passionate about marketing and ready for new challenges, this is the role for you.

Benefits

Healthcare insurance

Annual bonus

Part remote working available

In-house gym

Qualifications

• At least four years’ experience in a marketing or agency role.
• Strong communication and planning skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage key accounts and complex retainers across diverse sectors.
• Develop marketing strategies and ensure client satisfaction.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Time management

Detail oriented

Marketing knowledge

Commercial awareness

Integrated marketing understanding

Communication skills

Planning and organizing

Pitching and presenting

Education

Degree in Marketing or CIM level

Job description

Cornerstone is on the lookout for a highly motivated and experienced senior account manager to join our growing agency.

Known for our passion for the industry, ability to achieve the impossible and provide outstanding work, client satisfaction and results, we are looking to recruit an account manager that is highly motivated, a strong communicator and planner, an excellent people person and up for taking on new and demanding challenges.

The role will involve the management of multiple deadlines and projects, building client relationships, as well as providing the ability to multi-task whilst maintaining outstanding levels of attention to detail for clients and their campaigns.

The ideal candidate should have at least four years’ experience within a marketing or agency role, be looking to develop their career in a growing agency, be passionate about the job and be a strong and confident planner and marketing strategist.

Key Skills

1. Strategic thinker – able to take complex client briefs and convert them into objective-driven, creative solutions for clients
2. Time management and planning – ensuring multiple projects are completed in a polished and streamlined manner within deadlines, ensuring accurate milestone achievement
3. Detail oriented – A keen eye for detail, brand identity, consistency and creativity
4. A marketer – Marketing trained to a degree or CIM level, with practical experience of implementing solid marketing strategy and tactics across accounts
5. Commercially aware – Ensuring accurate quoting, estimations and budget management for client projects
6. Fully integrated – Strong understanding of the full marketing mix, spanning creative, digital, PR and web
7. Briefing and brief taking – interpreting client requests and transforming those into a solid and well thought through internal brief
8. Communication – A strong communicator both verbally and written, able to articulate requirements, outcomes and goals succinctly and effectively
9. Planning – A natural planner and organiser both of your own projects and the teams and clients you work with
10. Pitching, presenting and account development

Key Responsibilities

1. Key account management – managing a range of key accounts and complex retainers across diverse sectors
2. Retainer clients – Management of key client retainers, ensuring monthly delivery of all required activities across our departments
3. Project management – ad hoc project management for a variety of clients across industries to client brief and deadlines
4. Strategy – Marketing strategy for your allocated clients, working with our lead strategist to form activities and KPIs for yearly client planners
5. Planning – Planning of projects, teams and retainers ensuring milestone achievement, objective achievement and project delivery
6. Client satisfaction – ensuring client satisfaction throughout your project delivery

Benefits

1. Healthcare insurance
2. Annual bonus
3. Part remote working available (2-4 days remote per week)
4. In house gym

Interested in joining? We'd love to hear from you. Email your CV, and a link to your LinkedIn profile to: [emailprotected], and Sarah Brierley: [emailprotected], and tell us what makes you the right person for this role.