Senior Account Manager

Agency :

Job Description :

YOUR ROLE:

Senior Account Manager: someone we trust to deliver great work and manage junior team members and campaigns.

HAVAS LONDON:

We are a globally renowned & heavily awarded advertising agency based in Kings Cross. We exist to make a meaningful difference in the real world with ideas that make everyone grow well. We create big, noisy, un-ignorable work that makes a dent in culture, and we’re proud of doing our best work for our biggest clients, while doing the best for people, planet, and profit.

CLIENT:

Global alcohol brand, big creative expectation, heavy emphasis on culture and storytelling.

KEY OBJECTIVES

⟶ Account Management

⟶ Strategic Smarts

⟶ Financial Management

⟶ Creativity

KEY CHARACTERISTICS

⟶We lead better

We strive for greatness in everything we do and aren’t scared

of overcoming a ‘no’ to get to better business, better people,

better planet.

⟶We don't waste

We strive to make the world a better place by minimising waste

and leaving nobody behind in our efforts to make a positive impact.

⟶We look for impact

We are driven to make a real dent in culture through the insights

we uncover, the ideas we produce, and the talent we put behind

every single one of our projects.

⟶We care more

We put time and energy into the work we do and love and attention

into the people we’re doing it with.

⟶We solve the problems together

We bring the best out in us all. ‘Us’ is our most powerful asset.

When we get together, we are unstoppable.

ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT

⟶ Effectively develops strong relationships within the team and cross functional department.

⟶ Actively builds connections with key stakeholders and understands their motivations

⟶ Knowing how best to involve stakeholders in the project.

⟶ Can effectively manage junior-mid clients and push back where necessary, pushing the agency agenda.

⟶ Leads on 360 annual reviews for the team

they line manage.

⟶ Driving force on a project, leading on next steps, actions, overarching timings, etc.

⟶ Seen by the client as the day-to-day lead on project.

⟶ Sees the issues early and can identify when a process needs to be re-set.

⟶ Pushing creativity for accounts and ensuring every brief/project meets and pushes past the clients needs

STRATEGIC SMARTS

⟶ Knows the client’s business better than they do and care about it.

⟶ Short to medium term plan to achieve an outcome.

⟶ More active role working with account strategists on projects.

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

⟶ Run your account commercials like it's your own business

⟶ Understands and identifies levers of profitability.

⟶ Understand the KPIs clients and agencies use to measure commercial success.

⟶ Able to demonstrate how to scope a project.

⟶ Find new opportunities to bring revenue.

CREATIVITY

⟶ More of an active role in presenting work|to clients.

⟶ More active role discussing the work with clients and inspiring them to buy the best work.

⟶ Protect an idea from start to finish, escalating where necessary.

⟶ Facilitate and champion the best working conditions to make great work happen.

⟶ Create a safe space on the account for creative to provide innovation, inspiring

ideas that push the brief and constantly demonstrate to clients why they need our brains

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Contract Type :

Here at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.