Senior Account Manager at Haymarket

Brand/Title Description

As a Senior Account Manager, you will have day-to-day responsibility for the UEFA business. This involves liaising directly with the client, as well as various departments inside and outside the agency to ensure that the client brief is met on time and on budget.

The account team’s role is to protect and maximise the profitability of projects, managing the client and the approvals process efficiently, while delivering the highest quality editorial product to meet the client’s brief.

In order to deliver editorial products that work effectively for the client, you will need to become knowledgeable of their business and the sector in which they operate. You will need to keep abreast of their business issues and those of their competitors, keeping up-to-date with marketing trends in the sector.

Person Specification

You will need to be self-motivated, enthusiastic, extremely well organised with attention to detail, and able to think on your feet and problem solve. Working as part of a team, you must be a strong communicator, forming strong relationships with your peers and clients.  Specifically;

Client management

• Receive briefs from client
• Recommend and agree the production schedule
• Provide contact reports and status reports, so all agreements are noted
• Assist in managing the client’s expectations throughout the process
• Identify additional creative/production services, alerting the client to extra costs, providing a cost estimate & gaining approval before work starts
• Raise invoices for each completed project
• Understand the contract deliverables

Production management

• Brief production team for quotes and schedules (as early as possible)
• Provide print order and delivery instructions
• Keep the team updated on any changes to spec / schedule
• Ensure projects are press passed by an appropriate production staff (where necessary)
• Ensure teams are working within budget and that all cost information is provided at the close of each project
   

Editorial management

·        Regular liaison with team to ensure projects are on brief, schedule and budget, via weekly (or where necessary) publisher meetings

·        Understand and ensure implementation of social media schedule and strategy, using HN digital expertise where necessary

Digital

·        Brief digital team for quotes and schedules (where necessary)

·        Liaise with relevant external digital-magazine companies to deliver digital editions of all relevant publications

·        Financial management

·        Costing projects

·        Invoicing clients

·        Completing publisher’s statements for each completed project

·        Close management of contribs budgets

·        Allocation and close management of circ. promotion budget

·        Manage subscriptions marketing, including subscriptions promo budget

·        Manage UK and overseas newsstand via Frontline, including CTM promotions budget

·        Work closely with the licensing team to manage licensees

New Business

·        Look to grow new/incremental business from your clients where possible. This will involve working with the Account Director to

·        Develop existing and new relationships within client organisations

·        Arrange introduction meetings with key decision makers

·        Present commercial and creative proposals

In addition, where required, you may be called upon to play a role in developing proposals for potential clients, working with the New Business Team.

How To Apply

Haymarket is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all areas of the community.

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