Senior Manager (Account Director) - £60k London, England, United Kingdom

Golin; London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Senior Manager (Account Director) to lead impactful campaigns for renowned brands. This role offers the chance to work within a dynamic team dedicated to sustainability and social change. You will manage diverse projects, leveraging your expertise in media relations and stakeholder engagement to elevate brand reputations. Collaborate with global teams to deliver award-winning work, ensuring that your contributions drive meaningful change. If you thrive in fast-paced environments and are passionate about making a difference, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Career development initiatives

Wellbeing programs

Inclusive culture

Team-building activities

Qualifications

• Experience in managing multi-market campaigns and projects.
• Strong understanding of the UK current affairs landscape.

Responsibilities

• Manage and execute campaigns for clients, ensuring high standards.
• Develop strong relationships with clients and deliver strategic counsel.

Skills

Account Management

Campaign Strategy

Media Relations

Stakeholder Engagement

Team Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Communications or related field

Tools

Media Monitoring Tools

Project Management Software

Job description

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London, England, United Kingdom

About Golin

At Golin, we believe in balancing collaboration, learning and flexibility to help you do your best work. That’s why we ask for a minimum of two days in the office, giving you the freedom to shape the rest of your week around personal commitments and creative inspiration. Our inclusive culture, wellbeing initiatives and commitment to ongoing career development ensure you feel valued, supported and empowered from day one.

Golin is a global public relations agency that helps companies create change that matters. Together, we discover powerful human truths that bind us, create with bravery and collaborate inclusively and obsessively. Inclusion is a core value for Golin and we are focused on establishing a culture that is intentionally inclusive, potently diverse and uncompromisingly equitable. Our expertise ranges from brand-building and cutting-edge digital content, to corporate reputation, disease awareness and measurement. Golin aligns earned-first, data-driven creative with the customer journey through our collaborative model to deliver maximum impact for clients. Our roster includes many of the largest FMCG, retail, food, healthcare, technology and consumer service companies in the world.

We’re also proud of the work we do and our agency values, and even prouder when it is recognised by our peers. In the last year we’ve won two Cannes Lion Grand Prix’s and PRWeek’s large consultancy of the year. It’s a testament to our team’s excellent work and dedication to innovation and client service.

Sitting as part of the Corporate team, our Senior Manager (Account Director) role offers a unique opportunity to work closely with consumer-facing brands as a trusted reputation advisor. Our team is not made up of ‘pinstripe corporate suits’, and the work we focus on is how to empower brands to boldly communicate on topics such as sustainability, purpose, and their impact – leaning into the opportunities that arise when taking a risk.

The Role

While our team sits in London, this role provides the opportunity to work on clients and with award-winning Golin / IPG teams across the world. Our Risk & Rep team is also part of the Global Purpose + Planet practice. This practice reflects the DNA of Golin and its commitment to brave work. We’re a team of more than 40 subject matter experts in climate change, sustainability, social impact and activism. And we’re obsessed with studying culture and how it creates social change – and changes brands for the better. We design powerful campaigns and programs focused on sustainability, social good and equity - driven by ideas that inspire awe and action. We’re here to do the best work of our lives so together, we can create change that matters.

As a Senior Manager (Account Director) in our team, your responsibilities will include:

• Manage, guide, and execute a wide variety of campaigns for our clients
• Lead client projects accurately to ensure they are completed on time, on budget and to the highest standard possible
• Share and use your in-depth media, stakeholder and social communications knowledge to help strategically shape, guide and execute client activity. You will use this knowledge to forensically guide and counsel our clients on what you believe is best for their brand or company’s reputation at that current time
• Utilising Golin’s tools to ensure data supports client counsel and demonstrating the ability to succinctly counsel clients, at every level
• Develop strong, trusting relationships with our clients on retainer, campaign and project activity by delivering your best work, considered strategic counsel and being ‘one step ahead’ of our clients at all times
• Demonstrate ability to seamlessly and effectively work into and with various UK and global teams and practices to deliver award-winning client work and to strengthen the counsel we provide our Risk & Reputation clients
• Be a team player and proactively share your knowledge, skills and guidance with members of your team and across the agency
• Support the wider Agency by participating in training, sharing skills and knowledge and presenting to the all-agency teams on a regular basis
• Get involved with new business briefs as and when required, bringing your knowledge and skills to help our agency grow and win even more brave and ambitious work

Key Requirements:

• You are an Account Director or established Senior Account Manager who has experience in diligently running multi-market, high-paced campaigns and projects
• You have a strong understanding of the UK current affairs landscape that brands and companies currently operate in - from a strong, working knowledge of media and black book of media contacts, to knowing the nuances between different stakeholders, to understanding the strategic differences between X and TikTok
• You have a strong command of b2b/national business media across print, online and broadcast
• You can see the opportunity in risk and you’re not afraid to be brave and challenge our clients to do better for them and wider society
• You are a true team player, you can work seamlessly into different teams of varying expertise areas and you can produce the best integrated work
• You have experience guiding and helping junior team members learn and grow, and you’re open to helping upskill wider agency team members too
• You are experienced working in fast paced environments

Even Better if:

• You have a strong knowledge or experience working on leading FMCG, retail or consumer brands in an integrated capacity
• You have worked or operated directly in a non-UK market
• You are able to convey counsel across multiple formats (emails, word docs, ppts and virtual client presentations)

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