Job Title: Print Account Manager – Edinburgh
Salary: £Highly Competitive Salary
Location: Edinburgh
Reference: J3228
Contact:
Telephone: 0141 647 6688
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As part of their growth, aleading marketing and communications company is currently looking to recruit anexperienced Account Manager to support in the delivery to a varied portfolio ofclients.
Your responsibility will be toensure that all projects are delivered successfully, managing internal andexternal communications in an effective manner. This will entail briefingvarious departments from estimating, digital media, creative and artwork,production, using in-house systems and standard workflow procedures. Theability to spot new commercial opportunities within the account is key toassist in driving growth.
As Account Manager, you must beable to work within a fast paced, high volume environment, and must be used todealing with queries and ideally be used to liaising with a Production Team.
Responsibilities
1. Deliver against client KPIs andother targets to meet contractual obligations.
2. Develop and maintain a rapportwith key client stakeholders in order to manage expectations and ensure valueadded service provision.
3. Establish and maintainrelationships with day-to-day clients, applying a commercial and value addedapproach to client briefings, and ensure meaningful and timely communication.
4. Manage end to end productionworkflow including associated communications with client, ensuring the qualityprocedures are followed throughout the production cycle, ensuring the deliveryof product on time, to specification and on budget.
5. Brief and liaise with creativeand studio artwork teams
6. Support preparation of clientdevelopment plans.
7. Ensure all production activityadheres to commercial strategy and guidelines.
8. Delivers business and account objectivesthrough adherence to business processes and systems
Skills
9. Ability to take client briefs andchange requests via face to face or by email and manage client projects frombrief through to production
10. Ability to manage clientexpectations around timescales and deliverables
11. Understanding of print production
12. An understanding of digital mediadigital outputs would be beneficial
13. Understanding of contractrequirements: commercial pricing structure, SLA’s and measurement
14. Ability to work collaboratively aspart of a team, and ability to work independently
15. Proactive approach – alwayswilling to learn and working to improve processes to ensure efficiency for thebusiness
16. Ability to communicateefficiently and build rapport with departments across the wider business
17. People Management skills, youwill be required to liaise with colleagues within your account team as well asliaising with internal departments and Client Contacts
18. Manage workload effectively,seeking opportunities to expand knowledge, grow and develop.
19. Flexible in your approach toworkload and task allocation to ensure client demands are met.
Financial
20. Accurate estimating andinvoicing.
21. Identify and maximise cost savingopportunities
22. Ensures completed jobs areinvoiced in the month they have been produced/delivered
23. Understands client budgets tosupport the delivery of their campaigns
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This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a word document, depending on which sector you are in, to :-
Board level, account management and all levels of sales vacancies –
Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector, for example a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management, in fact we have over 30 specialist categories. Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or contact you in the near future as soon a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.
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