Senior Account Manager

The Place To Be are partnering with a leading creative agency in Manchester, renowned for delivering bold, integrated campaigns for an impressive portfolio of well-known brands. With expertise across brand, creative, strategy and activations, the agency is known for producing standout work, building strong client relationships and fostering a collaborative, ambitious culture.

As a Senior Account Manager, you'll play a key role in strengthening client relationships and delivering complex projects from brief through to execution. Acting as a senior contact for clients, you'll ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope and on budget while maintaining strong commercial performance.

• Leading key client relationships and acting as the senior point of contact across multiple accounts
• Managing complex projects from brief to delivery, ensuring budgets, timelines and quality standards are achieved
• Providing strategic direction, commercial oversight and identifying opportunities for account growth
• Coordinating cross-functional teams and ensuring alignment between client objectives and project delivery
• Managing risk, protecting project scope and supporting forecasting and financial planning
• Mentoring junior team members while representing the business in client, industry and new business environments

You'll be a confident and commercially minded Senior Account Manager with experience delivering complex projects and managing senior stakeholder relationships. You'll thrive in a fast-paced environment, be comfortable making decisions and know how to balance client expectations with commercial realities.

• Proven leadership experience within an agency or retail environment
• Experience delivering complex retail, activation or POS programmes
• Strong commercial awareness and budget management skills
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders with confidence and authority
• Excellent communication, presentation and influencing skills
• Strong organisational and project management capabilities
• A proactive, solutions-focused and commercially aware approach
• Experience with in a purpose-led or B Corp organisation is advantageous