Job Title: Account Manager – Direct Mail
Salary: £Attractive Salary
Location: Edinburgh
Reference: J3379
Contact:
Telephone: 0141 647 6688
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Our client is a dynamic direct marketing agency specialising in campaign strategy and execution. They work with a wide variety of clients to provide exciting, highly targeted and effective communications.
Anopening has arisen within their account management team. They are looking foran account manager with a flair for client communication and understandconsumer behaviour. Your role will be to provide high level, proactive, helpfuland value added client service and account management through the organisationof all relevant creative, print, production and postage services.
Responsible for managing anarray of accounts and working as part of a team providing efficient end-to-endproject management for print / mailing services, your responsibilities willinclude the following:
1. Manage several accounts and often being the face of the company to many clients
2. Prepare client quotes and invoices, checking supplier quotes, preparing purchase orders and ensuring profitability of each job
3. Briefing external suppliers, from artwork, data and print through to fulfilment and postage
4. Checking all information thoroughly and proof reading accurately
5. Suggesting new formats and feeding back on suggestions for improvements both to clients and the Client Services team
6. Manage & coordinate the delivery of existing client direct marketing activity to agreed budget and timescales
7. Develops and maintains long-term relationships with accounts, clients and suppliers
8. Be happy to roll up your sleeves and stay hands-on
Oneof the accounts is purely postage therefore candidates must have solid postage knowledge to apply for this role. Additional necessary skills and attributesinclude:
9. Strongcommunication and interpersonal skills with aptitude in building relationshipswith professionals of all organizational levels
10. Organisedand able to prioritise work load
11. Proactiveand self-motivated
12. Excellentwritten and verbal communication skills
13. Strongnumeracy skills, ability to understand data and briefs
14. Goodnatured and considerate
15. Attentionto detail
16. Abilityto actively participate in brainstorms and to accurately record ideas generated
17. Gooduse and knowledge of Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point
18. Abilityto stay calm under pressure!
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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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