Account Manager/ Senior Account Manager - Fintech/ Finance and/or Property - looking to hire ASAP!

A London-based communications consultancy dedicated to helping deliver outstanding business success for their clients in a wide range of sectors including finance, fintech, property and energy is hiring! Ideally a background in finance/fintech is preferable (property is a plus) as that is a large part of what they do.

Keen to hire ASAP!

Account management:

• Acting as the primary point of contact for clients day to day and building their trust

• Taking responsibility for the management of workflow across the account and ensuring alignment across company

o Alerting senior team members to pressures, deadlines or issues on accounts

o Ensuring junior team members are delivering to deadlines and to standard required

• Acting as first point of contact for account executives and SAEs for queries and copy review

• Ensuring timely execution and delivery of account administration, including EOW reports/monthly activity reports, coverage documents etc

• Proactively briefing clients and regularly updating them on activity, such as announcements, campaigns

• Exhibiting understanding of and sensitivity to changing client priorities and pressures

Attitude:

• Serving as an enthusiastic role model to junior team members, providing proactive guidance, support and constructive feedback

• Maintaining can-do approach and cool head in moments of pressure or challenging circumstances and stepping up to challenges when they arise

• Showcasing a strong work ethic and ownership of account workload and ensuring this attitude is demonstrated by more junior team members

• Encouraging an ethos of friendliness and conscientiousness across the team, supporting team members, offering help and maintaining strong collegiality

Delivery:

• Increasingly offering strategic counsel to clients to aid their PR and wider marketing campaigns

• Leading in the development of innovative and creative ideas for clients to support high levels of quality activity

• Recognising and delivering strategic updates to clients – e.g. recognising where fresh comms plans or activity planning is needed

• Demonstrating consistent and robust understanding of client sector issues, news and trends and ability to capitalise on this expertise quickly and effectively

• Leading and initiating team brainstorms and developing news angles, stories and pitches

• Showing clear understanding and appreciation of client KPIs and expectations and holding team to account on these

• Excellent writing skills across range of media and ability to coach junior team members to the same standard

• Demonstrating clear understanding of integrated marcomms programmes and appreciation for how digital initiatives can join up with PR

• Overseeing management of integrated activity coordinating across different team members

• Showcasing understanding of agency capabilities and beginning to communicate this persuasively to current and potential clients

New business

• Taking leading role in the development and management of new business projects, providing clear guidance and quality control for junior team members

• Demonstrating clarity and confidence during new business pitches

• Robust understanding and ability to articulate breadth of the business services

They offer a great benefits including: private health and dental, extensive training, discretionary bonus, new business bonus, pension and much more

To find out more about these opportunities, contact Edwina Goldman – edwina@jflrecruit.com