Account Manager

The opportunity:

No two clients are the same, no two days are the same, for our busy, buzzing Account Managers. As someone who can hit the ground running from day one, you’ll thrive on an exciting learning curve that will stretch and sharpen your management, team working and communication skills. Your spark will make clients love working with you, and in return you’ll have the chance to make a real impact from the off, on a huge range of different client accounts. 

Your role:

• Leading client accounts within the agency, managing budgets, ensuring they are profitable and growing.
• Applying strategic thinking and insight to all projects, driving them forward and addressing challenges where appropriate.
• Helping build and strengthen the client-agency relationships.
• Helping ensure best practice internal processes, ensuring consistent and high-quality ways of working across teams.
• Seeking to build a good working rapport between the account management creative and development teams throughout the agency.
• Regularly involved in new business, tenders and pitches, approaching these with both a creative and commercial mindset.
• Managing client briefings and presentations.
• Managing projects on-time and on-budget.
• Responding to client requests.
• Financial management - estimating, quoting, and invoicing.
• Time management – creation of timing plans to meet client deadlines.
• Providing support to the team – you will report to an Account Director. 

The ideal change-maker: 

This is a role for a real team player who loves the energy of working with others. It’s fast-paced, pressurised environment and you have the drive, ambition, and enthusiasm to match. You think on your feet, happily juggle various client needs at the same time, and you love getting to the heart of challenges. 

You will be: 

• A strategic thinker.
• Commercially minded.
• Always looking to achieve the best results, internally and externally.
• Someone who can quickly build trust in client relationships.
• Self-motivated.
• Positive with a can-do attitude.
• A cheerleader for our agency in the industry.
• Experienced in a similar role.
• Ready to make your mark. 

At the Union, diversity isn’t a box-checking exercise - we look to employ the best talent in the market; regardless of gender, orientation, class, culture or ethnicity. The ability to think differently is the lifeblood that fuels our ethos of change. If you can outperform, outthink, and outdo, we want you. 

The obvious stuff: 

• Competitive compensation to match your role.
• Investing in your growth with training.
• Benefits from pensions to life cover.
• Ample holiday time, for you to recharge and reflect.
• Opportunities for enlightenment through IPA CPD and UNION Academy initiatives.
• Flexible working that bends to life’s rhythm. 

Call to adventure: 

Ready to be an Agent of Change? Get in touch with your CV and a covering statement to jobs@uniondirect.co.uk with ‘Account Manager’ in the subject line.