Account Manager
- Location:
-
Bristol (BS8) jobs
- Salary:
- 25000
- Company:
- Randstad Care
- Job type:
- Permanent jobs
- Date posted:
- 15/11/2009 07:09
- Job id:
- 45949268
- Contact:
- Debbie Carter
- Ref:
- Totaljobs/DC/Adults /20091028/87334
Managing the client relationship, and taking briefs from clients for projects and
campaigns, both face to face, by phone and in writing.
Overseeing the budgets and costings for clients, ensuring that clients are fully
informed at all stages, including ensuring purchase orders are received from the
client at each stage of costing.
Briefing and liaising with production teams to ensure that innovative and cost
effective solutions are proposed and agreed.
Briefing and liaising with the creative teams, ensuring both the creative team and the
client are fully informed and all necessary approvals obtained at each stage of the
process.
Managing the Account Executive reporting systems, including status and contact
reports.
Establishing and maintaining processes to work with the media department internally
or external media agencies.
Overseeing all files/job bags, both physical and digital, ensuring approvals are
documented in writing and filed appropriately.
Setting up, managing and reporting on meetings with clients, suppliers, internal
teams and reporting appropriately.
Essential Skills
- Solid management skills, both people and projects
o experience of managing a team and delegation
- Demonstrable experience of digital projects
- Good financial awareness and skills
- Written and numerical excellence
- First class communication skills, both written and verbal
- Demonstrable and effective time management skills
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Strategic thinker
- Demonstrable client/market understanding
- Interpersonal excellence
- Good knowledge of print and production processes
- Advanced knowledge of Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
Essential Experience
Minimum four years experience in marketing/direct marketing/advertising. Preferably
from an agency background with two years experience as an Account Manager.
Solid understanding of marketing services, through education and practical
experience.
Experience of working with creatives and production, to ensure client satisfaction.
Person Specification
- Natural manager
- Team player
- Methodical
- Ambitious
- Innovative
- Creative
- Forward thinking
- Articulate
- Numerate and literate
- Good solid education
- Decision making under pressure
- Flexible
- Unflappable
Natural interest in the marketing industry.
Commitment to marketing as a career, either through study or career history.
Key metrics:
o Client retention, development and profitability
o Excellent internal and external working relationships
o Proactive value-add/innovations
Requirements to -Type: Permanent : Full-time
Skills
-Category: Other
