Your title: Senior Account Manager
Your boss: Managing Director
Your pay: Competitive and dependent on experience
Your benefits: Commission structure
Location: Thames Valley London
Welcome to Seymour PR: a boutique agency offering a leading news generation service. We’re small but we’ve been punching above our weight and with new clients coming on board, we need a senior team member to help lead us towards the growth we have forecast.
This role is not only about world-class client handling and campaign delivery – it’s also very much about nurturing our team and helping the business as a whole deliver our ambitious plan. We’ve been told the person we’re looking for doesn’t exist but refuse to believe it – we know you’re out there!
The business boasts both an established consumer arm as well as a growing B2B portfolio, so experience in both areas would be ideal.
If you want to know about our values...
We’re passionate about doing what we can about climate change and as such, only work with clients which support the UN’s sustainability goals and actively look to work with businesses who are making a change.
We’re ambitious but are also only prepared to work with clients who make coming to work exciting and treat us with the same respect we afford them.
We are looking for someone who can work between our bases in Oxford and London Bridge. We will decide together on how exactly this works once we have found the right person, but you must be open to working between the two.
This role is best suited for someone who wants something different from the big agency grind; who is willing to work hard in order to see the direct impact of that work and who wants to grow at their own pace rather than conform to the confines of corporate promotion norms.
If you think you might be up for it, give us a shout at carie@seymourpr.co.uk.
Your job
Let’s face it, what we do is not rocket science. But, only a few do it well. You’ll need to be one of the few. Here’s what you’ll be up to:
Be a key part of the senior team working closely with managing partners to deliver the business’ growth objectives
Manage a number of clients across consumer and B2B effectively. It seems obvious but this includes:
Creating, pitching and delivering campaign strategies
Doing whatever you need to do to land those strategies: writing releases, writing thought leadership, creating infographics, preparing spokespeople etc.
Staying in budget
Managing team workload with a commercial mindset
Reporting how well we’ve done and retaining clients
Reacting to challenges with a solution-based attitude
Demonstrate an innate hunger and ability to connect your clients’ stories with the news agenda
Be eager to pick up the phone and pitch to your black book of contacts
Understand the importance of continuing to build new contacts within the media
From Kendal to Switzerland – be prepared for the odd early start travelling for work
Work independently and drive day-to-day activity on accounts without the need for close directorship
Thrive off of the naturally changeable nature of the job and work effectively at pace
Be a key player in the development of junior members of the team
If you make a mistake, own up – we’ll know you’re human that way!
Your education
This is not important, mostly because it’s the year 2019 and a whole lot more matters than where you went to school, what you did, or how you got on in your exams.
What we do care about is a demonstration of hard work and ambition.
You
This does matter. It’s important that you:
Have already done what we do
Get on with just about anyone
Understand what makes the news
Write brilliantly
Love a sell-in
Thrive on results
Want to try new things