Hybrid Account Manager

at Ear to the Ground

• Job title: Account Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Manchester, United Kingdom

About the role

• Account Manager responsible for leading integrated marketing campaigns for top brands. Collaborating across teams to deliver projects on time and within budget.

Responsibilities

• Support the end-to-end delivery of high-level, complex integrated marketing campaigns, ensuring key milestones are met.
• Own and manage the end-to-end delivery of lower-level integrated campaigns.
• Assist in managing timelines, budgets, and resources to keep campaigns on track.
• Coordinate across creative, production, strategy, and media teams to ensure seamless execution and resourcing.
• Have a thorough understanding of your department's roles and responsibilities and all of the agency's processes.
• Actively drive best practice processes across all projects working with other team members to ensure a consistently high standard across the whole agency.
• Work with the Senior Account Manager and Account Director to nurture existing client relationships and build confidence in the agency and its ability to deliver campaigns to the highest standard.
• Present, alongside agency colleagues creative responses, strategy and insight ideas and concepts to the client.
• Act as a day-to-day contact for clients, providing regular updates and ensuring smooth communication.
• Support the Campaign Director in managing agency partners, talent, agencies, and internal teams.
• Assist in the preparation of campaign reports, status updates, and post-campaign analysis.
• Own and maintain detailed project timelines, ensuring deadlines and deliverables are met.
• Assist the Campaign Director in tracking overall campaign budgets, flagging potential overages and ensuring cost efficiencies.
• Take ownership of specific areas of campaign budgets, ensuring we stay within the identified budgets and minimise project creep.
• Identify and escalate potential project risks to senior team members.
• Work closely with creative teams to ensure campaign creative and assets align with brand guidelines and objectives.
• Support the strategy team in integrating audience insights and data into campaign planning.
• Ensure all campaign deliverables are in line with the overall creative vision.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in campaign/project management within a creative, advertising, or marketing agency.
• Experience within an agency environment.
• Strong understanding of integrated marketing campaigns, including digital, social, experiential, and content production.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills, with strong attention to detail.
• The ability to lead internal agency teams through campaign delivery.
• The ability to lead clients through agency campaign delivery.
• Ability to multitask and manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, often changing, environment is a must.
• Strong team player with a proactive and problem-solving mindset.
• Passion for sport, gaming, or wider culture is a must for this role.
• If you have experience working with beverage brands and within the football industry OR experience within streetwear / sports apparel and the basketball industry, please highlight this within your application - we'd love to hear more about this!

Benefits

• Flexible & hybrid working
• Birthday off
• Workplace nursery benefit
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Private medical insurance and health cash plan
• Enhanced sick leave
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Personal development coaching + more