Account Manager

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Job Description

Golley Slater is looking for an Account Manager to join their consumer brands team. They will be joining a thriving agency which develops creative campaigns that focus on building brand awareness, attracting engagement and disrupting the shopper. The Account Manager will be a trusted point of contact for the client, suppliers and our internal agency departments. They know their client business in detail and take responsibility for implementation and delivery of campaigns to brief, on time and to budget. The role would be perfect for an experience Senior Account Executive looking for the next step in their career or an Account Manager wanting to join growing agency.

What you will be doing:

• Focusing on developing client relationships, gaining trust and credibility.

• Taking client briefs and be competent in ensuring as full a brief as possible is obtained by asking appropriate questions.

• Researching, preparing and writing presentation documents (including supporting materials and samples).

• Writing creative and design briefs and presenting them to studio.

• Managing the creative process, ensuring timelines are met and that the creative product is on brief.

• Creating case studies on completion of projects.

• Ensuring projects, once commissioned, run smoothly, accurately and to budget, on time, and to an agreed standard

Who we are looking for:

• An experienced account manager/senior account executive who has ideally worked in a shopper marketing agency setting (2-3 years experience)
• Someone with exceptional organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple jobs in a timely manner
• A confident communicator with the ability to build rapport and relationships and craft solutions with in-house team members, external suppliers and the agency network
• Strong written communication skills
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Good influencing skills across a wide range of stakeholders
• A commercial understanding and confidence with numbers

Some of our benefits include:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holiday.
• Birthday Holiday Day.
• Enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity leave pay.
• Enhanced sick pay
• Compassionate leave policies, including paid pregnancy loss leave
• Employee assistance programme including access to free counselling sessions.
• Life and service milestone awards
• Hybrid working and core hours (10 to 4)
• Life assurance (4 times annual salary)
• Option to buy extra holiday.
• Pension scheme (5% employee, 3% employer)

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At Golley Slater, we believe that curiosity creates the unexpected, and true curiosity can't be achieved without diversity. We need people with different perspectives, experiences, and cultures to develop unexpected ideas that challenge, excite and create lasting impact. That's why we're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race including colour, ethnic or national origins and nationality, religion or belief or sexual orientation. So, whoever you are, whatever your background, we want to hear from you.

How we can support you

We know that some people may need more flexibility than others. We offer the opportunity for our teams to fit work around their needs and schedules with:

• A 'work where you feel most productive' policy for those who find it easier to work remotely.
• Flexible working hours (with core hours of 10am-4pm).
• Enhanced parental leave, to give teams time with their new arrivals.
• Pregnancy loss leave.
• Enhanced sick leave.
• If you require any adjustments to make this role work for you or need assistance during our application process, please contact a member of our HR Team.

In return, we'll give you the chance to build on these skills and advance your career with support and collaboration among a team who like to have fun as well as work hard. If this sounds like you then please apply!