Entertainment X Gaming Senior Account Manager
ENTERTAINMENT X GAMING SENIOR ACCOUNT MANAGER
Passionate about Gaming? We’re looking to hire a new Senior Account Manager. We are looking for a Gaming expert with strong Gaming partnership experience activating TTL campaigns that include talent, content, PR and experiential.
This is a great opportunity to join our exciting and award winning agency in the passion marketing sector.
At M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment you’ll have the opportunity to work with clients such as; adidas, Reebok, Coca-Cola, Ballantine’s, Boiler Room, Barclaycard, Absolut, Heineken and many more. From live events and festivals, to pop ups and social content, you’ll work on it all!
About Us
M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment is a creative leader in the passion marketing sector, we connect brands to a diverse range of consumers through the things they love. We deliver award-winning campaigns for a number of leading brands globally, regionally and within individual markets.
M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment is committed to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive working environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants who meet the specific requirements will receive consideration for employment without regard to background or protected characteristic, under the Equality Act 2010. We celebrate difference in the broadest sense; rooted in our belief that diversity of thought is a creative necessity.
ABOUT THE JOB
We have an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Account Manager to work with blue-chip clients in the gaming sector and partnering with some of the biggest music brands and organisations in the world. You’ll be an intrinsic part of the team enabling us to deliver exceptional work in UK Entertainment.
You’ll have experience across brand activations, events, experiential, social, PR. You’ll have a strong campaign planning background, project and team management and music industry partnership know how, alongside a proven track record of steering and leading clients to successful outcomes.
As a Senior Account Manager on the Entertainment Team, you’ll be responsible for the efficient day-to-day management of some of our biggest clients. You are the central component in the team, reporting into our Senior Account Director ensuring the smooth running of all campaigns with the long-standing partnerships. You display strong skills in collaborating with the team and across clients and partners.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT:
Status (Internal & Clients): contributing to the daily team’s internal and client status meetings for key updates, chasing teams for anything outstanding.
Reporting: Lead in content plans/ track-listings and key information required for any reporting. Coordinating information sourcing with partners and local markets
Finance: Updating and reviewing cost trackers on a weekly basis and preparing for monthly reconciliations; completing expenses in time
Deadlines: Setting deadlines with ADs and clients
Timesheets: Ensuring all timesheets are completed accurately and weekly
TEAM MANAGEMENT:
Coordination: appoint and reviewing all deliverables given to AEs and SAEs, Keep all members of the team up-to-date with account work and ensure that regular internal status meetings are arranged, keeping your AD’s informed
Support: Listening to and guiding any concerns AEs and SAEs have with task development
Establish Strong Relationships: Display strong working relationships with your team
On-Boarding: Leading new team, creative and supplier onboarding for client business and campaign
CAMPAIGN EXECUTION:
Timeline: Creating detailed timelines and ensuring campaign is on track to delivery, any major delays to be flagged to ADs and BDs proactively. Managing client expectations on deliverables required.
Ideation: Proactivity in adding value at all stages for the campaign life cycle; through strategic guidance, having ideas, research, commercial and process streamlining
Creative Briefing & Feedback: writing briefs and requests for creative teams and strategists that are coordinate with S15 for booking against the timeline. Managing client and internal feedback to progress ideas
Document Writing: Structure a proposal deck and clearly walk clients through a complex campaign – driving simplicity in selling in the idea
Partner Management: Seeking support and requirements of the right partners to deliver ideas
Asset Management: Creating an overview of assets required and ensuring all provided by team and partners
Event On Site: presence at all events, managing clients, suppliers, production depending on role assigned
PR & MEDIA MANAGEMENT:
Contacts: Demonstrate a thorough contact list at key music and lifestyle titles
Drive Editorial Opportunities: Manage and drive rich editorial opportunities including exclusives, interviews and features
Managing Paid Media: Navigate and negotiate the best rates for paid media opportunities
KPI Target Overview: Monitoring and providing weekly updates to clients on targets met
Reporting: Aware of all coverage from initial sell in to delivery and oversee the reporting process
SOCIAL & DIGITAL:
Contacts: Demonstrate a thorough understanding of social media platforms and the digital landscape, coordinate requests or new briefs with channel account managers
KPIS: Setting targets and objectives in digital to review with ADs; constantly monitoring platforms and partners in achieving this
Influencer Relationships: Establish long-term influencer relationships to put forward for campaigns
Reporting: Leading in the reporting process and review to ensure everyone is clear on deliverables met
COMMUNICATION:
Written (Internal and Client): clear written next steps on emails, quick responsiveness on slack and clarity of writing ideas into deck format provided by clients/ senior team
Verbal (Internal and Client): confidence and simplicity in explaining next steps and ideas over phone calls and in-person meetings
Promptness & Management: Owning relationship with mid-level clients (brand managers) to be point of contact on requests
CREATIVITY, INDUSTRY AND COMPETITOR INSIGHT:
Research: Become immersed in the competitor landscape and creative industry, developing a broad knowledge of the industry outside of your specialism, sharing it with the internal teams and clients
Active Contribution: Offer ideas and contribute to brainstorms and share media news and related topics relevant to the client – it is important to show interest and proactivity
APPROACH:
Lead by example: show and tell those who are supporting how it’s done and create a proactive approach in all that you do
The ability to both identify and solve problems before your AD’s or clients do (when highlighting a problem always have a view of what a solution might be)
Thinking ahead and have your clients and brands front of mind
Go above and beyond to demonstrate your commitment to your accounts and to push yourself towards new achievements
Contribute to the culture of the business
What we offer
For the right candidate, we will offer a competitive salary and benefits package which includes private healthcare, employer contributory pension, life assurance and income protection. We also offer a host of benefits that support wellbeing including free breakfast and lunch, subsided gym membership, whilst our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion sees us offer learning opportunities around DE&I, targeted mentoring programmes and the opportunity to participate in a number of active Employee Led Networks and associated events. Finally, this role will be supported with all the necessary personal development required to set someone up for success.
The M&C Saatchi Group UK has pledged its commitment to create a company that values difference, with an inclusive culture brought to life through equity with an 18-month roadmap of business-wide activity across people, culture, industry and society. As part of this, M&C Saatchi Group continues to be an Equal Opportunity Employer which does not and shall not discriminate, celebrates diversity and bases all hiring and promotion decisions solely on merit, without regard for any personal characteristics.
All employee information is kept confidential according to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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