Agency Account Director

Rarely available opportunity to join an award-winning media agency as an Agency Account Director.

The Client

• A market leading, cutting-edge marketing company and the winner of a number of prestigious business awards.
• They provide their agency clients with promotional space throughout the UK
• Venues include shopping centres, garden centres, city centres, train stations, retail parks, festivals, airports and bespoke locations.
• These are controlled environments where their brand product or service is placed directly in front of their potential customer audience.
• No.1 in their market their clients include Mercedes, Coca Cola, BMW, Lego, Virgin, Sky, Schweppes and BT to name but a few.
• This innovative organisation have experienced continued growth through organic expansion and acquisition due to their unique product offering and increasing product portfolio.

The Role

They are currently looking to recruit an Agency Account Director

• To sell their full range of national marketing/ promotional media solution, demonstrating the value of their proposition and presenting business reports designed to increase customer loyalty.
• Customers will be an existing list of established marketing agencies customers who are working on behalf of client brand customers.
• Supporting the team of Account managers
• Building and maintaining relationships with key decision makers in a number of clients, ensuring that the relationship is nurtured and grown.
• Listening to briefs, establishing campaign criteria and putting together bespoke, innovative and creative initiatives and campaigns that meet client objectives while maximising client expenditure.
• Obtain an understanding of client requirements at both a strategic and a tactical level to be able to offer the best business solutions.
• This will involve working a relaxed, fast paced environment to deadlines and revenue targets.
• You will have the support and back up of strong case studies, metrics and marketing information

The Candidate

Ideally you will have a strong proven track record of account managing Marketing Agency clients from any media sector (e.g outdoor media, radio, experiential ect) or account managing within an advertising, PR or marketing agency.

You will require

• Proven relationship-building and account management skills
• Experience of working in a multi-product environment
• Demonstrable experience of strategic planning and tactical decision making.
• Demonstrable evidence of sales success and solution-based selling that focuses on the use of data
• Excellent presentation skill previous experience of presenting to an audience.
• Commercially awareness and have demonstrable business acumen
• Structured, disciplined, energetic, committed to individual and group improvement
• High attention to detail
• The ability to understand and analyse data and select and articulate findings.
• You will require a stable work history
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• A natural Problem solver with the ability to take ownership and resolve issues
• Excellent PC skills, particularly competent with Microsoft Word, Excel & Power point

 The Package

In return you will be given

• Rarely available opportunity to join a genuine No.1 market leader at the forefront of their sector in a senior sales role.
• They are an organisation that values their staff and customers and provides the investment in retaining them.
• The opportunity to join a growing, friendly and innovative successful team.
• You will be given full training and development and the opportunity to work in rewarding environment.
• Genuine career opportunities

Basic salary £35 – £37K + uncapped bonus (Year 1 bonus c.9K rising to £20K in year 2) + benefits

Office based Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday

Home based Wednesday