Digital Account Manager : Leading Agency

OUR CLIENT IS A BRILLIANT INTERNATIONAL FULL SERVICE DIGITAL AGENCY WHO HAVE THE BEST PORTFOLIO OF LUXURY BRANDS/CLIENTS, WITH THEIR HEAD OFFICE BASED IN EDINBURGH. THE CLIENT SERVICES TEAM IS GROWING AND WE ARE LOOKING FOR AN EXPERIENCED ACCOUNT MANAGER TO STRENGTHEN THE TEAM.

The responsibilities of an Account Manager include:

- Act as main point of contact with clients

- Attend regular meetings with clients - a mixture of phone / Teams / Email / on site

- Gain an in depth understanding of clients’ business needs and focus and relay this to the appropriate internal teams (SEO, PPC, Social, Design, Development teams)

- Produce monthly reports and analysis for clients on work / campaigns completed

- Agree forecasts and schedules with clients and internal teams

- Trouble shoot any issues

- Strategy and planning for client campaigns 

- Scheduling work with internal teams (design, development, marketing, content, brand)

- Using internal systems effective (CRM, finance etc)

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE:

- Ideally a digital / marketing degree (or equivalent work experience)

- A minimum of one year’s digital account / project management experience (ideally 2/3) within an agency environment

- Proven experience and knowledge of managing creative projects such as branding, design, website development

- Ideally experience and knowledge of digital marketing channels (SEO, PPC, Analytics etc)

- Willingness to travel for work if necessary

- A “can do” pro-active attitude, ambition to grow your skills and knowledge

Salary £25,000 - £35,000 + a great bonus system and brilliant company benefits including social, health, pension and training/development budget. Great offices with free tea/coffee etc and beers on a Friday!

FURTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

Gilchrist Recruitment Partnership are a specialist recruitment agency and recruiting partner within the Marketing, Digital communications/PR, Creative & Design and Advertising industry for Scotland, both agency and client side.

When submitting your application, please outline your current salary, salary expectations and notice period. It is also essential that you are already legally permitted to work in the UK with the associated paperwork if you are not a UK citizen.

If you are not currently living in Scotland, please explain/outline your plans and timelines for relocation to Scotland. We are a Scottish based recruiter who generally do not represent “remote” opportunities - thus you will be either living in Scotland or have solid plans to relocate.

We cannot guarantee a response to each individual application, made necessary by the level of response we receive. We will contact only those candidates we wish to shortlist. Apologies in advance for an inconvenience this may cause.

We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring that no applicant receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status or race.

Unless clearly stated otherwise, the advertised position is a permanent contract.