Job Title: Senior Account Manager
Location: Liverpool
Salary: £30,000 – £35,000 per annum
Job type: Permanent, Full time
A friendly, multi award winning PR & marketing consultancy, are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Senior Account Manager to work from our Liverpool city centre office, on a range of B2B accounts.
You will have the opportunity to further your career in an ambitious, fast-paced environment. This role is the ideal opportunity for a proactive, creative and commercially literate candidate who is digitally savvy and wants to be part of a successful agency.
This role is suited to an experienced account manager looking for their next career challenge. You will work with senior professionals in a supportive and progressive environment.
Responsibilities:
- Manage client expectations by consistently delivering work on time and to budget
- Proactively creating ideas to expand client accounts by identifying opportunities and presenting them to the client
- Scheduling activity to service client expectations in the most profitable way
- Create content for press releases, feature articles, blogs, websites and other written materials
- Media / Influencer relations – Knowing how to build meaningful relationships with media that can generate new and consistent results
- Idea generation – Creativity across campaigns, social, features and copy
- Publicity generation – consistently securing positive items of media coverage on behalf of clients
- Attending client meetings and conducting yourself in a confident and professional manner
- Ability to manage own workload and prioritise, including accountability for deliverables and ensuring deadlines are met
- Maintaining positive relations with clients at all times
- Evaluation and presentation of campaign results internally and to clients
- Research of potential PR angles and campaigns for clients or new business prospects
- Media monitoring – regularly keeping track of the UK media agenda
- Analysing making recommendations to improve client profitability
The Candidate:
Qualifications and abilities
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in a PR and/or marketing agency is essential
- A bachelor’s degree; ideally in a relevant subject
- Knowledge of the built environment sector, media and influencers, desired but not essential
- Passionate about developing client accounts and delivering results
- Strong proficiency in media relations work and proven delivery of results
- Awareness of the branding process and how it influences marketing goals
- Digitally savvy with a good understanding of social media channels for business
- Creativity and personality to always bring something different and engaging to clients/the team
- Excellent attention to detail
- Confident presentation skills
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Strong planning and organisational skills
- Proactive and ambitious
- Strong commercial focus
- Ability to multi task, managing multiple projects at once
- Can-do attitude and team player mentality
Other requirements:
- Ambition and drive to want to make a difference to clients and the agency
- Confidence in building relationships with clients and their partners/customers
- Team player
- Flexibility to travel across the UK to attend client meetings
- UK based candidates only
Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Annual bonus based on hitting target
- Pension scheme
- 25 days holiday plus a day off on your birthday
- Career development
- Opportunity for travel
- Training and career development
- Free tea/coffee, fruit and snacks on a Friday!
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Account Manager, PR Executive, PR Account Manager, Marketing Account Manager, Senior PR Executive, PR Executive, Construction Marketing Executive, Client Account Handler, Account Executive may also be considered for this role.
