Role:
Client Services Manager
Salary: £35,000-£40,000 per annum + commission
Location: Sheffield
Glu Recruit are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic new team member to join our clients award-winning Marketing and Communications Team as Client Services Manager. You will be a valued member of a team behind one of Yorkshire’s most successful marketing agencies.
Your work will make a difference. They work on life-changing campaigns that achieve real results in areas including health, sustainable travel, equality and diversity. You’ll love your exceptional working environment, where colleagues share ideas and creativity thrives.
As Client Services Manager you will be a key member of the management team. Your role will be to own all client communication, reporting and building relationships with growth clients. This role involves working closely with the MD, Creative Strategist and Account Managers to ensure that every client receives the very best strategic approach consistently. You will also be responsible for ensuring that Account Managers understand and buy into our approach to building relationships with clients.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Own senior relationships with key stakeholders across all clients.
2. Identify key challenges that our clients have through fully understanding them at a senior level and lead a team to execute strategies that deliver on our clients’ needs and objectives that bring in more project work.
3. Organise, delegate and lead on client relationship strategy to develop business opportunities.
4. Line management responsibility for the Marketing Communications Team Manager (this will not include the wider MarComms team).
5. Lead and develop client plans with Account Managers to ensure we are bringing in new projects from a proactive approach.
6. Deliver and develop on any areas we can upsell and cross-sell by having a clear understanding of our clients.
7. Passionate management style that drives engagement with the wider team and involves team members in the creation of strategy opportunities.
8. Working closely with the MD and Operations Manager to contribute to the overall development of the business through innovation and understanding of where the business could take advantage of new opportunities due to trends, knowledge of government spend and insight from clients.
9. Support new business development where appropriate.
10. Attend any exhibitions, deliver seminars or networking events as appropriate.
11. Frequent check ins and working closely with Account Managers to proactively identify any issues on clients, case studies that can be created.
12. Adhere to and promote the values of the company.
13. An active contributor to the Business Development team.
The successful candidate:
14. Experience of building excellent relationships with clients through a clear understanding of their needs and where we can support them through our expertise and creative approach
15. Demonstration of a commercial acumen and the ability to see opportunities in line with the company’s values and ethics
16. Minimum 6 years marketing experience
17. In depth experience with multiple key channels; Digital, Design, Campaigns, Motion and Research/Strategy
18. Proactive and driven with a proven track record of achieving KPIs/targets
19. Logical thinker who regularly solves problems by employing creative solutions
20. Enjoys multi-tasking and has very strong personal organisation skills
21. Strong verbal and listening skills
22. Strong team player who can engage, enthuse and develops through mirroring and mentoring
Desirable:
23. An understanding of behaviour change marketing
24. Agency experience
25. Line management experience