Account Manager

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Job Title: Account Manager
Employment Type: Permanent / Full-time
Location: Bristol/Hybrid
Start Date: ASAP

About JACK ARTS

JACK ARTS specialise in creating inspiring street campaigns and experiences for the culture space. Working with galleries, exhibitions, local venues, publishers, theatres, and many other institutions across the UK, our specialist team understand the arts, the audience, and the need to be truly creative. With a portfolio of carefully curated poster sites in 11 cities across the UK via our parent company BUILDHOLLYWOOD and a creative team that can produce bespoke creative billboards, hand painted murals, interactive installations, ambient and unique experiential marketing campaigns, JACK ARTS is perfectly placed to promote the arts on the streets.

Our website: https://www.buildhollywood.co.uk/

Role Description:

We are currently looking for a creative, self-motivated, and experienced Account Manager based in Bristol, to join the wider JACK ARTS UK team.

Working from our Bristol hub, we are looking for someone who can work independently and drive their own workload. Working day to day in a team of two, the successful candidate would be responsible for the account management of Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff and Swansea.

We are looking for someone who is knowledgeable and passionate about one or more of these cities, and the local cultural scene. Someone who is excited about the world of outdoor media agencies, cultural brands, and street culture. We need someone who is a confident presenter, networker, and salesperson. Someone who can create strategies to approach individual clients to sell in our services.

As part of the BUILDHOLLYWOOD family you will be working in a permanent team alongside teams from our sister agencies DIABOLICAL and JACK. You will manage and develop your own portfolio of clients as well as actively seeking out new opportunities and briefs from advertising, media, and OOH specialists, as well as clients direct.

What You'll be Doing:

Account management

• Writing proposals and presentations in response to briefs
• Developing and managing client relationships both existing and new
• Developing experiential, stunt and ambient ideas as part of the team
• Providing excellent client service
• Identifying and contacting potential new clients, with a strong focus on media agencies
• Arranging presentations to introduce our services and assess client needs
• Ensure all introductory meetings are followed up, carrying out any action discussed.

Project management

• In conjunction with the production team you will plan, manage and implement campaigns
• Write and manage budgets to ensure profits are maintained
• As part of a team deliver effective, well-planned projects to the highest standard
• Support other team members as and when required.

Overall

• Join our growing business and help our development as the leading creative advertising specialist.

About You:

We'd love to hear from you if you can demonstrate the below skills and experience:

• Strong communication skills
• Great presentation skills - verbal and written
• An ability to build on and develop strong client relationships
• Media and advertising savvy
• Project management skills
• An understanding and passion for youth culture
• Ability to plan and manage your own workload
• Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines
• A proven ability to sell in ideas and concepts
• Familiar with working to sales targets.

The following would be advantageous:

• Experience working in a similar role
• Experience working with Media Agencies
• Experience of experiential and ambient implementation.
• Understanding of outdoor advertising

About BUILDHOLLYWOOD

BUILDHOLLYWOOD is dedicated to placing creativity in the heart of our cities. As the UK's leading street advertising specialist, we develop, curate and offer street poster space to a range of clients within the music, fashion, arts and culture sectors. BUILDHOLLYWOOD creates the space and our family of agencies, DIABOLICAL, JACK and JACK ARTS work with clients to bring their campaigns to life on the street.

Built on an art school mentality that stretches back decades to our founder, we have a talented family of agencies - DIABOLICAL, JACK and JACK ARTS - who specialise in their own sectors to produce street-level poster campaigns, creative billboards, hand-painted murals, interactive installations, ambient activities, and unique experiential campaigns, creating authentic interactions with people on the street.

This combination of format, creativity and position is unique to BUILDHOLLYWOOD. It's the reason why we work and collaborate with the most exciting brands, artists and creative institutions in the world.

Benefits:
• Salary of £32k-£36k (dependent on experience) plus bonus scheme to share in company success.
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and an additional day off to celebrate your birthday (rising to
30 days after 5 years' service).
• Life Insurance and Group Income Protection with Canada Life.
• Flexible working - to help you achieve that all-important work-life balance
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Family is important to us, so we have a range of inclusive family-friendly policies in place, including
enhanced leave to support you during those important times.

Our Values

Our values are really important to us. Below is a brief overview, but we'd love to tell you more!

AUTHENTIC - We believe that we are at our strongest and most creative when everyone can be their authentic selves. We treat everyone with respect, share our own differences and unique perspectives and feel proud of them. We are confident to pursue our passions.

CARE - We take care in what we do, we are meticulous in the execution of our tasks, care for our craft is what sets us apart from the competition. We care about the world around us and how we affect it, we strive to reduce our impact, make positive contributions and improve the environments we work in. We care about our own wellbeing and each other's, we provide support, knowledge and empathy where we can.

COMMUNITY - We are part of something bigger than ourselves, one team and one community with a common goal and purpose. We each play our own important part but cannot thrive without each other. We are present and engaged for our colleagues. We recognise our role and influence in building a positive community, caring how we speak to one another, the way we make each other feel and the support we give one another.

CURIOUS - We are always asking questions and learning whilst doing. We celebrate the gaining of knowledge for personal and professional growth. We keep ourselves well informed. We are collaborative and embrace alternative viewpoints and innovative approaches. We respond to the creativity in the world around us.

GROW - We take ownership of our careers, set ourselves goals and thrive on challenge. We are ambitious, we see effort as necessary to grow. Individual success is all of our success. We seek out learning and embrace feedback. And we enjoy the journey.

BUILDHOLLYWOOD is committed to creating an environment that is inclusive to all, where everyone is treated with kindness and respect. We believe in equal opportunities for everyone and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Do reach out to let us know if there's any actions we can take to better support an environment where you feel comfortable.

Please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements at any stage of the recruitment process. We are always open to ideas from our candidates that help us to make our processes more inclusive.

Our website: https://www.buildhollywood.co.uk/