Account Manager

Job Overview

Job Description

The role Account Manager

Responsible for high quality day-to day deliverables on client accounts, with a focus on corporate communications and media relations.

Nurturing and maintaining junior relationships with existing clients and fostering relationships with new prospects.

Focusing on quality and having a deep understanding of our clients’ objectives, to provide insight, analysis and advice to our clients day-to-day.

Contributing to client meetings, ensuring consistent high standard of work, and providing clear feedback to junior members of the team on deliverables including monitoring notes and briefings.

Supporting and coaching junior account teams with their work and progression.

Playing a key supporting role within the team on business development and supporting delivery of the corporate communications marketing plan.

We’re looking for candidates with:

Experience delivering communications campaigns across channels.

A keen interest in current affairs, storytelling, speech-writing, politics, policy, digital campaigning and business.

Excellent writing skills, with a keen eye for detail.

A passion for a fast-paced and varied working environment, such as in a busy press office, in-house communications team or PR agency.

Some experience of account management in agency, or equivalent in-house role with demonstrable experience of managing deliverables and working across teams.

Candidates with 3+ years’ experience in a communications role at a consultancy or relevant in-house role are preferred.

Experience using tools and databases like Roxhill, Meltwater or Signal (or similar).

A good understanding of the media (at a national, regional and trade level) and how the landscape is changing.

The successful candidate will:

Work with well-known companies and brands in the FMCG, tech, retail, health and energy sectors making an important, tangible contribution to the UK.

Help these clients, and our team, to develop and execute campaigns.

Be part of an exciting consultancy focused on delivering high quality work that helps our clients act to earn reputation and advocacy.

Benefits:

Bonus: Discretionary bonus of up to 15% of salary if the company performs and you individually perform

Flexible working policy including 3 days in the office, including Mondays.

Pension: Statutory pension

Leave: 25 days holiday per year (Jan-Dec)

Wellbeing policy: one additional day off each month as a wellbeing day, in addition to annual leave allowance

Freedom to work from overseas for up to two weeks each year

Health insurance following probationary period

Enhanced maternity leave policy

For more information or to apply, please email with your CV and a cover letter.

The closing date for applications is 15th August, with interviews due to take place in late August.