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Senior Account Manager

Publicis Groupe, City of Westminster

Senior Account Manager

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Publicis Groupe, City of Westminster

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 2 weeks ago, 8 Dec | Get your application in now before you miss out!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 3cac4fcfcd0c43c182a4a564f260ddf1

Full Job Description

  • Leading the day-to-day client account management and counsel for your team's retained and project work
  • Keeping on top of overall account/project planning and timelines, and regularly reporting up to senior team (e.g. your team lead, the Director/Business Director/MP for your clients) on account status
  • Leading client project executions, responsible for delivering to deadlines, efficiently managing team resource and budgets, and effectively managing client comms and relationships
  • Participating in all-agency brainstorms for new client briefs, and leading the brainstorm for your own client briefs as required
  • Being part of the team pitching creative ideas to clients
  • Leading media sell in's, managing an effective media strategy and team briefings to ensure maximum coverage results
  • Responsible for providing accurate, informative and meaningful client reporting - including detailed knowledge of using third party media monitoring platforms across your client accounts
  • Supporting the management and development of junior team members on your accounts/team including effective resource-planning and time management
  • Helping to build a positive agency culture, by participating in agency events, providing counsel to junior team members and sharing suggestions for the evolution of the agency to senior team to both resolve problems and create more efficient working processes
    • The Regular Clients: (plus a few recent campaigns)
  • McVitie's - creative campaigns and press office, for example: https://www.taylorherring.com/mcvities-rally-britain-to-bring-back-the-tea-biscuit-break/
  • Subway UK - https://www.taylorherring.com/case-studies/our-work-for-subway/
  • NatWest - creative consumer PR activations, for example: https://www.taylorherring.com/natwest-create-board-game-to-educate-the-nation-on-financial-scams/
    • Team:
  • At Taylor Herring we work within a team-based structure within which sit project leads and client leads. As a general rule you work with, sit with and grow with your team.
  • You will have a line manager and after a year you will get a Mentor from outside your team
  • You will work most closely with the Senior Account Director & another Senior Account Manager

    Ability to work as part of a cross-agency team for clients as required - with good understanding of the role of PR within the wider comms media mix
  • Having a growth mindset - including proactively identifying commercial opportunities for Taylor Herring to grow it's support of clients (both for Taylor Herring and SMS / Brand Experience)
  • Always looking to add value to both clients and the agency, with ability to both make a difference and think on your feet/ adapt to change
  • Providing thoughtful counsel on PR strategy and execution choices to clients, including education about the role and capabilities of PR to more junior clients
  • Strong knowledge of the UK editorial media landscape
  • Previous experience within consumer PR

    Taylor Herring is an award-winning creative PR, social media and influencer agency that delivers solid business outcomes for its consumer brand clients through smart thinking, creativity and innovation. The agency is famous for its eye-catching, creative campaigns - which generate headlines, crash social media timelines, capture the imagination and inspire people to take notice. Commercially and creatively driven, we deliver long-running PR programs as well as high-impact launch moments for consumer and entertainment brands.
    • Taylor Herring has won more PR Week awards than any other agency in the past decade, have been Campaign's Agency Of The Year three times in the past five years - and are shortlisted again for 2024! The Taylor Herring and St Marks (our production company) crew are a great bunch of passionate, smart, creative, determined, supportive, collaborative people. We are a tight-knit community all in pursuit of delivering the best work possible, and having a good time while we do it. Our Commitment We believe diversity drives innovation and creativity. It connects us closer to our clients and the audiences we serve. So we're shaping an inclusive agency culture where difference is valued. We celebrate the diverse voices of our team. As part of our dedication to create an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Groupe UK is committed to equal access to opportunity for people without regard to race, age, sex, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion.

    Taylor Herring has fantastic benefits on offer to all of our employees. In addition to the classics, Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical and Income Protection Plans we also offer;
  • WORK YOUR WORLD opportunity to work anywhere in the world, where there is a Publicis office, for up to 6 weeks a year.
  • REFLECTION DAYS - Two additional days of paid leave to step away from your usual day-to-day work and create time to focus on your well-being and self-care.
  • HELP@HAND BENEFITS 24/7 helpline to support you on a personal and professional level. Access to remote GPs, mental health support and CBT. Wellbeing content and lifestyle coaching.
  • FAMILY FRIENDLY POLICIES We provide 26 weeks of full pay for the following family milestones: Maternity. Adoption, Surrogacy and Shared Parental Leave.
  • HYBRID WORKING, & BIRTHDAY DAY OFF You are entitled to an additional day off for your birthday.
  • AGENCY DISCOUNTS , onsite gym, and local discounts
    • Full details of our benefits will be shared when you join us! Taylor Herring operates a hybrid working pattern with full time employees being office-based three days during the working week. We are supportive of all candidates and are committed to providing a fair assessment process. If you have any circumstances (such as neurodiversity, physical or mental impairments or a medical condition) that may affect your assessment, please inform your Talent Acquisition Partner. We will discuss possible adjustments to ensure fairness. Rest assured, disclosing this information will not impact your treatment in our process. Please make sure you check out the Publicis Career Page (https://www.publicisgroupeuk.com/careers/) which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG's (Employee Action Groups).

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