Integrated Marketing Account Manager / Leading creative agency

Account Manager, Leading Agency, to £35,000 + benefits 

This is a career making opportunity to join one of the UK’s leading advertising/integrated agency whose awards and accolades have kept them at the top of their game consistently. 

The Account Manager’s role is to be the key person on their client accounts day-to-day, ensuring the smooth running of the accounts to help deliver work that is strategically and creatively excellent - and make sure they are profitable for the Agency. You will specifically working on one of the agency’s flagship accounts (within the financial services sector) helping the Account Director smoothly delivery campaigns, whilst getting to know the client and helping formulate the processes and procedures. A truly exciting time to join this team and agency.

This should be achieved through building positive internal and external (especially client) relationships, the effective supervision of team members and the efficient application of agency processes to ensure delivery of excellent work within agreed budgets and timescales.

Account Manager’s key skills and experience required:

• Excellent communication skills, particularly advanced listening, providing clarity and consistency to clients and internal teams

• Strong organisational and project management skills within an agency

• Team player, not afraid to roll your sleeves up!

• Eye for creativity and ability to clearly constructive feedback

• Excellent attention to detail

• Shows initiative and pro-activity 

• Understanding of wider marketing channels and their role in the communications mix

• Understanding of media channels and ability to recommend appropriate channels

• Understanding of role of strategy and planning within the auspices of campaign delivery 

• Ability to provide positive input into the strategy process, getting to the crux of a brief, the audience and proposition

• Briefing creative, digital and production teams as appropriate

• Fully understands client’s business and market and keeping on top of new developments and trends - it would be ideal if you had experience in a large regulated account environment such as financial services or utilities 

• Adds value to clients/agency business – and to your team

• Ability to deliver projects smoothly on time and on budget

• Assists the Account Director to forecasting future income streams and making sure projects and overall clients are profitable and prepped for growth

• Has knowledge of all aspects of the agency process model and competent in progressing work within this framework such as: Prepping schedules and quotations, taking briefs, briefing in planning/creative/production/studio etc. Also you will attend client meetings and go out on shoots etc.

We are looking for an agency experienced individual who wants to join an established team / agency. We are looking for a minimum of 1 year’s experience and a focussed and ambitious attitude. This may be perfect for an existing Account Exec / SAE to step up or an existing AM who wants to be an integral part of a flagship team.

It is highly preferable that you have creative agency experience, but we may consider a great client side candidate if you have experience of briefing and come from a large financial services / utilities industry background (campaign delivery).

Salary is purely dependent on skills and experience with a range of £25,000 - £32,000 + great benefits. 

You will work from the Edinburgh office 3 days per week, so you must be able to commute.

 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 the UK, 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.