MARGARET IS HIRING: ACCOUNT MANAGER
ACCOUNT MANAGER JOB DESCRIPTION
TITLE: Brand Team Account Manager
REPORTS TO: Agency Director and Brand Team Director
SALARY: Up to ÂŁ28k (dependent on experience)
HOURS: 10am â 6pm Monday to Friday, evening and weekend events when needed.
HOLIDAY: Standard agency 20 days holiday, plus time off between Christmas and New Year.
ABOUT MARGARET:
Margaret is a creative communications agency with specialist knowledge of the cultural and media landscapes. We use this along with our creative contacts and influential networks to engage our clients with the right audiences. For more information visit www.margaretlondon.com
ABOUT THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE:
Weâre looking for a bright, friendly and highly motivated individual with at least 1 yearâs experience of working at Account Manager level within a communications agency. They should have a keen knowledge of the communications landscape, bringing with them some strong contacts and a good cultural awareness. They should also be organised and proficient in project management and they must be able to liaise confidently with clients.
JOB OVERVIEW:
Working with the brand PR team across a number of commercial lifestyle brands covering food & drink, travel and fashion / cosmetics. You would be responsible for the following tasks:
Acting as the day-to-day point of contact for clients, maintaining confidence in Margaret by timely reporting of work progress and quality day to day counsel.
Overseeing the delivery of high quality client management materials, including contact reports and evaluation documents.
Driving successful campaigns and projects which meet agreed objectives and timeframes through effective planning and use of resources.
Playing a key role in productive team meetings and ensuring that organisational systems and planning tools are being used effectively.
Preparing budget proposals and maintaining budgets and budget allocation for each client campaign (with support from Account Director).
Organising and managing relevant suppliers including photographers, design and artwork suppliers and event staff (including drafting briefs).
Preparing good quality written materials such as press releases, advertorial copy and media features.
Delivering quality, on-message media coverage by identifying media targets and selling in story concepts and product reviews to the press across a number of campaigns.
Contributing creatively and helping to develop exciting, engaging and on brand ideas for pitches and proposals
Organising and attending events.
Researching around client brands, in order to fully understand their product/story/brand personality. Also thinking about their competitorâs and learning from the campaigns theyâve run and coverage theyâve secured.
Taking responsibility for keeping up to date with market trends and influences relevant to Margaret clients and our agency.
NEW BUSINESS:
As relevant, develop new business opportunities and clients for Margaret - flag if there are brands that you love and would like to work on so we can approach them together
Contribute to agency brainstorms generating innovate thinking and new ideas.
Starting to contribute to writing new business proposals.
Updating the Margaret credentials and website after each project
Being a Margaret ambassador, communicating the agencyâs core values at all times
Being immersed in the trends that are appropriate to our clients. Being the eyes and ears of the agency, feeding in new trends and ideas through the cultural afternoon we offer all our staff several times a year and your own experiences.
STAFF & OFFICE MANAGEMENT:
Help oversee and manage workloads of junior members of team where applicable (i.e. Account Executives)
To apply please send your CV along with a covering letter to [email protected].
We will try to get back to everyone but only candidates we would like to interview can be guaranteed a reply.










