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Major Account Manager (Digital New Media) London £70K
Major Account Manager (Digital / New Media) London £70K
Position: Group Account Director
Location: Office is located in Hatton Garden, in the heart of Midtown between Holborn and Clerkenwell
Salary: £70K.
Benefits: Including 25 days holiday, subsidized gym membership and monthly massages during your working day, discounts on Mazda and Ford cars (up to 15%), and computing equipment from PC World, priority ticketing service from Ticketmaster plus many more.
COMPANY:
Our client is a top five European interactive agency based in London (90 employees), Hamburg (45 employees) and Frankfurt (110 employees). They have been designing and building sites for blue-chip clients for over 12 years. They know this marketplace as well as any agency you may be interested in working for, if not better.
ROLE:
Our clients success has been driven by its strong client relationships. As part of a dedicated team a Group Account Director works to develop client business and give strategic direction on one or more of our clients accounts. A Group Account Director is required to be financially literate, both to help develop business cases for new work and to oversee all financial forecasts and reconciliations for his/her client(s).
RESPONSIBILITIES:
a) To manage the strategic direction of the account.
b) To provide digital consultancy that will result in the further use of the online channel where appropriate.
c) To ensure we have 5 Quarter visibility of budgets and financial forecasts.
d) To improve customer satisfaction within 2 quarters – as measured by a customer satisfaction survey.
e) You will be responsible for setting the account strategy and the commercial success.
f) You will be responsible for several accounts.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:
a) Proven skills and experience in all aspects of Account Direction - with a proven client and commercial Management background in interactive marketing communications or marketing communications (e.g. DM or Advertising agency background).
b) Excellent understanding and experience of commercial processes, delivering profitable business, new business, account strategy and complex solution selling.
c) Good understanding of marketing communications strategy.
d) Strong communication skills both internally and client facing.
e) Clear reporting skills and issue escalation.
f) Able to work at high speed and intensity whilst maintaining attention to detail, and put in additional hours as necessary.
g) Strong negotiation and leadership skills, team player and manage under stress.
h) Personal drive to deliver value to end customer.
i) Enjoys a flexible and empowered approach to project management.
Please Note: Our client is part owned by the WPP Group plc. If you currently work for another company within the WPP Group please feel free to apply for this role. However, we will contact you in advance of booking an interview to confirm that your line manager with your current employer is aware of your intention to source a new position.
You may have experience in the following roles: Agency Account Director, Media Account Director, Digital Account Director, New Media Account Director, eMedia Account Director, eMarketing Account Director, Account Manager, Business Development Director, Business Development Manager etc.
This vacancy is being advertised by EasyWebRecruitment.com, the UK's leading Flat Fee Recruitment Agency. The services advertised by EasyWebRecruitment.com are those of an employment agency. Ref: EWR
No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of age, and we confirm that we will gladly accept applications from persons of any age for this role.