Senior Account Manager Leicester £25 – 30k Ref: AH333
Green Shoots Recruitment Ltd is looking for a dynamic Senior Account Manager. It is expected that you will be passionate about delivering an excellent level of customer service and will have Account Management experience in a design or marketing agency.
Working in a busy environment the Senior Account Manager will be responsible for a number of key clients, supporting them in reaching their marketing objectives from taking accurate briefs to bringing the finished product to fruition. Your role would include working with a number of B2B, covering marketing strategy and concepts, graphic design for print and digital, copywriting, web design and build, social media and direct mail.
The successful Account Manager will have extensive creative or marketing agency experience, be proficient in managing creative marketing campaigns and have strong business development experience across both print and digital media.
Senior Account Manager Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic marketing support to clients as well as maintaining regular contact, keeping them
- informed of project progress and staying up to date with their services, competitors and industry developments.
- Develop and present proposals to clients.
- Coordinate project schedules and budgets to ensure timescales and budgets are met.
- Check and approve creative/production materials, copy, layouts and production to ensure they are in line with client and agency expectations.
- Write briefs for clients’ marketing initiatives and coordinate quotes.
- Attend and participate in client meetings, providing agendas and meeting reports.
- Monitor agency and supplier costs to ensure profitability, and prepare client invoices.
- Identify new business opportunities within existing accounts and support other new business efforts.
Senior Account Manager Essential Skills and Experience
- The Senior Account Manager will have excellent project management and communication skills
- Extensive knowledge of marketing communications
- Highly organised with good planning ability
- Able to handle multiple projects and work to tight deadlines
- Proficient use of Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
- Diligent with excellent attention to detail
- Excellent interpersonal communication, able to relate to others in a professional and confident manner to build and maintain good relationships with clients, suppliers and colleagues
- Driving licence
Preferable but not essential
- A CIM qualification or a degree in marketing
- Print buying experience
- Wordpress website knowledge
- Experience of agency management software
Look forward to hearing from you
If this role is not quite right for you and you have similar skills and experience, please get in touch, as we are always getting new marketing, digital marketing, account handling, marketing communications, Events, Copywriters and PR Job roles in.
Green Shoots Recruitment Ltd is a Marketing, Account Manager, Digital Marketing, Marketing Communications, Marketing Strategy, Creative and Digital Recruitment Specialist covering the West Midlands and East Midlands.
The company is based on a solid foundation of 20 years of creative recruitment experience and are able to provide solutions for job seekers looking for a new career in Marketing, Account Handling, Digital Marketing, Social Media Marketing, SEO positions, PPC job roles Marketing Strategist, Marketing Communications including Content writing, creative marketing, digital, executive and sales jobs across Birmingham and the West Midlands. Filling a selection of Marketing, Communication, Creative, Digital, Marketing, Sales & Executive jobs at all levels in the West Midlands and East Midlands areas. Including; Birmingham, Cheltenham, Cotswolds, Coventry, Derbyshire, Dudley, Evesham, Gloucestershire, Hereford, Kidderminister, Leamington Spa, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Shropshire, Solihull, Staffordshire, Stratford Upon Avon, Stourbridge, Stourport, Walsall, Warwick, Warwickshire, Worcester Worcestershire, Wolverhampton and surrounding areas.
