Account Manager FTC

Account Manager 9 month FTC

Location: 450 Longwater Avenue, Reading, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

Salary: Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Three benefits

Working Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week – Monday to Friday – core hours between 10:00am and 4:00pm

Duration: 9 months FTC

Mid-Senior level

Full-time

Sales and Business Development

• Plan projects in advance, working closely with the creative director and resource manager to assign responsibilities, plot key milestones and identify risks & dependencies. Advise on those risks & managing them proactively by working up & presenting options. Ensure learnings from previous projects are applied.
• Track your timing plans tenaciously and keep them updated as things change, ensuring that the project team are fully updated, where required. Insist on disciplined delivery. Be reactive and nimble in the application of processes, with the ability to spot the need for flexibility and pivot where necessary. Be constantly alert to potential challenges and obstacles and solve them in advance before they become problems.
  
  Work with the creative director and the creative production manager to support projects once they go into production, in particular by managing feedback rigorously but sensitively. Demonstrate throughout a passion for the creative work and for embracing new & diverse ways of working.
• Maintain an in‑depth knowledge of how we’re tracking against time and money. Monitor/manage the budget so that it is commensurate with the objectives & opportunity. Bring awareness at all times of what’s in and out of scope and flag any potential over‑burn before it occurs. Strive to increase efficiency, through smarter ways of working.
• Maintain quality whilst helping the team to deliver to short deadlines and fast turn‑round times. Build strong collaborative relationships with the rest of the IHA team maintaining the focus on creative excellence and work that works well. Develop positive relationships with marketing and other roles that brief the IHA, helping them generate quality work.
• Based on your clear understanding of all the brands in the stable and the creative ambition of the IHA, support agreed ways of working across the team so each member can work efficiently and effectively. Use internal systems, tools and processes that enable the team to excel and record all time in REBUS. Demonstrate behaviours that encourage respect across all functions of the IHA and show due regard for timelines, budgets and other constraints inherent in the brief.

• Proven track record managing multi‑channel creative campaigns.
• Brilliant commercial tracking.
• Experience in driving forward big ideas and working with stakeholders, creative people and producers in implementing them.
• An in‑depth knowledge of the creative and design process as well as an interest and understanding of the production process.
• Ability to take and interpret creative briefs.
• Can read and translate media schedules in order to know how to service the creative process.

Excellent pay, bonuses, up to 28 days off plus bank holidays, and paid “personal” days. Personal benefits such as family discounts, vouchers, a pension plan and more. Learning & development tools to help your career progress.

We know that everyone is unique, with multiple aspects to their identity and different experiences behind them. We are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description or you require a more flexible working pattern, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.

We are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulator's standards.

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