Senior Brand & Campaign Account Lead

Engine Recruitment Ltd; Ingatestone; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Engine Recruitment Ltd is seeking a Senior Account Manager for a leading creative marketing agency. You will manage day-to-day client relationships, translate commercial needs into briefs, and lead cross-functional teams across campaigns, content, digital and brand initiatives.

You’ll influence senior stakeholders, shape strategic briefs and drive profitable growth across multiple accounts in a fast-moving, integrated environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an agency-side Senior Account Manager within a creative, marketing, advertising, branding or integrated agency.
• Ability to interrogate client challenges, shape strategic and creative briefs, and provide clear direction across campaigns, content, digital, social, brand and production.
• Comfortable leading relationships with senior client stakeholders, translating commercial and marketing challenges into clear agency briefs, and coordinating multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day and senior-level client relationships, setting agendas and ensuring clear decisions, actions and accountability.
• Own the development of marketing, campaign and creative briefs, challenging assumptions and aligning clients and internal teams around audiences, channels and clear objectives.
• Direct multi-channel projects from planning and resource allocation through to launch and delivery, maintaining quality, pace and clear communication.
• Own estimates, budgets, forecasts, scope control, billing and reconciliation, with a clear focus on account profitability.
• Present campaign thinking and creative work with confidence, guiding feedback and helping clients make well-informed decisions.
• Build account plans, spotting campaign and channel opportunities, and converting them into valuable new briefs, proposals and organic growth.
• Support pitches and new-business opportunities, contributing audience insight, commercial thinking and compelling creative marketing responses.
• Share best practice, supporting colleagues and helping maintain consistently high standards across the agency.
• Integrated creative campaigns and brand communications
• Content, copy and sales support materials
• Digital marketing, websites, email and content-led projects
• Social media, paid activity and campaign activation
• Branding, positioning and proposition development
• Experiential, events and wider integrated marketing activity

Skills

Agency-side experience

Account management

Strategic briefing

Client relationship management

Campaign planning

Digital marketing

Brand strategy

Commercial awareness

Leadership

Job description

Engine Recruitment Ltd is seeking a Senior Account Manager for a leading creative marketing agency. You will manage day-to-day client relationships, translate commercial needs into briefs, and lead cross-functional teams across campaigns, content, digital and brand initiatives.

You’ll influence senior stakeholders, shape strategic briefs and drive profitable growth across multiple accounts in a fast-moving, integrated environment.