Senior Account Manager: Lead Complex Campaigns

ThePlaceToBe; Manchester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

ThePlaceToBe is partnering with a leading creative agency in Manchester to hire a Senior Account Manager. You will strengthen client relationships and oversee complex campaigns from brief to delivery, ensuring on-time, on-scope, and on-budget outcomes while driving commercial performance.

You will lead senior client engagements, coordinate cross-functional teams, and mentor junior staff, balancing client expectations with business realities in a fast-paced agency environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading senior client relationships and delivering complex campaigns.
• Strong strategic insight and ability to translate client objectives into delivery plans.
• Demonstrated budget oversight and financial forecasting for multi-channel projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead key client relationships and act as senior point of contact across accounts.
• Manage complex projects from brief to delivery, ensuring budgets and timelines are met.
• Provide strategic direction, commercial oversight and identify opportunities for account growth.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to align client objectives with delivery.
• Manage risk, protect project scope and support forecasting and financial planning.
• Mentor junior team members and represent the business in client and industry environments.

Skills

Client relationship management

Project leadership

Budget management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Organisational skills

Presentation skills

Job description

ThePlaceToBe is partnering with a leading creative agency in Manchester to hire a Senior Account Manager. You will strengthen client relationships and oversee complex campaigns from brief to delivery, ensuring on-time, on-scope, and on-budget outcomes while driving commercial performance.

You will lead senior client engagements, coordinate cross-functional teams, and mentor junior staff, balancing client expectations with business realities in a fast-paced agency environment.