Senior Account Manager / Account Director - Packaging
Location: Manchester (Hybrid)
Salary: DOE
Company: An award winning packaging and branding design agency.
Role:
- Taking responsibility (not accountability) for ensuring the highest level of project management delivery, and where applicable training of junior team members
- Manage the day-to-day liaison with a client
- Effectively manage projects from initial brief to artwork release via our external supplier and ensuring deliverables are on time and within budget
- Employ good judgement through your experience
- Schedule work with the right resource and associated budget
- Knowing when to approach our Client and Commercial Director (CCD) or Senior Management team member for both advice and support
- Proactively supports the team ensuring all projects are on time, budgets and all ad hoc project admin managed in a timely manner
- Ensure creative briefs are succinct and considered against the client brief
- Create proposals for both clients and new business opportunities
- Manages workstreams in a cost-effective manner
- Accurately budget for workstreams and / or entire projects
- To attend/make presentations of work where appropriate, ensuring that everything is presented professionally and with conviction
- To attend client status report meetings and pre-production meetings Business Acumen:
- To pro-actively manage client relationships and to be alert for opportunities to add value.
- Take every opportunity to network within existing and potential accounts to fully exploit new areas and projects
Requirements:
- Packaging industry experience - food and beverage preferred
- Proven account / project management within an agency / design
- Have good knowledge of design, retail, brand and packaging
- Technical knowledge or printing processes - print and packaging
- Good understanding of design and artwork processes
- Supervisory experience
- Strategic brand understanding and able to input into projects
- Language skills welcome
- Team collaboration skills
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Excellent communication skills - both verbal and written
- Strong organisational skills along with ability to multitask
- Ensure good attention to detail.
Will consider experienced account managers wanting to take a step up in their career!
Apply:
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