Senior Account Manager

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a Senior Account Manager at [Employer hidden], you will play a crucial role in bridging the gap between the in-house creative teams and our clients. Your key missions revolve around strategic client management, business growth, and ensuring the successful delivery of exceptional creative work. Here's a breakdown of what your day to day will look like:

Strategic Client Leadership & Relationship Management

• Building and maintaining strong client relationships: the successful candidate will cultivate trust and rapport with senior-level clients within gaming publishers and studios.
• Understanding client business objectives: as a Senior Account Manager, it is crucial that you have a deep understanding of your client's marketing goals, target audience, and competitive landscape.
• Providing strategic consultancy: offering expert advice and recommendations on marketing strategies, creative concepts, and campaign execution is a key component of your role.
• Acting as the client's advocate internally: giving as much context as possible and ensuring our creative teams understand and meet the client's needs and expectations is crucial.
• Proactively identifying business opportunities: the successful candidate will anticipate client needs and identify opportunities for upselling or cross-selling agency services.
• Managing client expectations: keeping clients informed and managing their expectations throughout the project lifecycle will be part of your day to day.

Campaign Management & Execution

• Overseeing project delivery: ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.
• Leading cross-functional teams: coordinating and motivating internal teams (creative, strategy, production) to deliver exceptional work be it for RFP and for prod.
• Managing project scope and budgets: building quotes and getting high commercial nous to quickly sell projects to your client while ensuring projects stay within scope and budget, and proactively addressing any potential issues.
• Developing and implementing campaign strategies: collaborating with strategy teams to develop effective marketing and communication strategies adapted to each brief.
• Analysing campaign performance: tracking and analysing campaign performance metrics, and providing insights and recommendations for optimisation.
• Risk management: Identifying and mitigating potential risks to project success.

Business Development & Growth

• Identifying and pursuing new business opportunities: proactively seeking out new projects within existing clients and/or new clients and projects within the gaming industry.
• Developing and presenting proposals: creating compelling proposals and presentations to win new business with attention to detail and a sense of ‘what looks good’.
• Presenting and convincing clients: ability to present orally with fantastic pitching skills.
• Contributing to agency growth: identifying and implementing strategies to increase agency revenue and profitability.
• Keeping abreast of industry trends: staying up-to-date on the latest gaming trends, technologies, and marketing strategies.

Culture

• Contributing to agency culture: promoting a culture of creativity, innovation, and excellence.

Key Skills

• You have a proven track record in account management at creative agencies.
• You are passionate about video games and/or have worked in the gaming industry.
• You are bilingual or have a very good level of English
• You have good written and oral presentation skills.
• You are able to quickly adapt to new tools / software.
• You are able to work efficiently at all times to meet your deadlines and find solutions.
• You are used to collaborating with other creative profiles such as Planners, Production Managers, Media Managers, Art/Motion Directors and Social Media Creatives.
• You have excellent presentation and communication skills when it comes to speaking to clients, partners or internal teams.
• You are proactive, solution and results oriented.
• You are organised, have a great attention to detail and are militant about the perfect look of your presentation slides .

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

__Contract: Permanent

__Salary: GBP35-40K + incentive plan paid monthly (up to 20K)

__Start date: ASAP

__Location: London (or Paris)

__Advantages:

• Two days of teleworking per week (once the probationary period is over)
• Food allowance
• Transport allowance, 50% covered by [Employer hidden]
• Health insurance, 50% covered by [Employer hidden]
• Profit-sharing scheme
• 25 days holiday + additional days of paid holiday after 1 year's service
• Parenthood policy
• Menstrual leave policy

Send your CV and cover letter to [contact hidden]

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