Senior / Account Director - Promotional Products & Materials

£60,000-£65,000 Commission/Bonuses

Company & Overview:

This is a particularly appealing opportunity for a successful SAM or AD because the company are over-achieving on their growth targets and have just won another significant piece of business. Their success is underpinned by a strong company culture of trust which fosters an environment that allows people to perform well and enjoy themselves, whether working from home or at the office.

They are a global company with headquarters in London and over 70 offices worldwide employing over 1,700 people. The UK office has around 120 people.

Established in 1947, the UK office has highly successful historical record of providing Promotional Materials to a broad range of organisations across the UK and Europe. They provide engaging and creative full-service solutions for diverse Promotional Material requirements. They have managed to be nimble enough to changes in market conditions and are very much a global leader in this niche space of the marketing mix.

The Role:

This is a target driven role which involves speaking with and meeting customers and prospects on a regular basis, managing enquiries, projects and requirements, in addition to proactively generating interest from customers and prospects by putting forward new ideas with the support of a dedicated team. There is also a requirement to liaise with factories both in Europe and Asia (in English).

Account Directors are passed requirements and opportunities from new and established customers and prospects with an expectation that they will also proactively generate new customer sales themselves. Bringing clients across is not essential, just the desire to be involved in new business sales. The Account Director will be working with large, typically multinational, organisations based in the UK and Europe. Contacts generally work within the marketing or purchasing departments.

Guidance and internal training is given within a friendly and supportive environment.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Meet or exceed targets.
2. Develop a complete customer account portfolio, generating sales from both new and established customers.
3. Contact prospects and take the initiative to develop new relationships primarily, but not exclusively, from warm leads. The Account Director is also expected to have some contacts of their own.
4. Professionally maintain good communications and relationships with customers and prospects. This includes maintaining the customer relationship after the sale is completed, continuously looking to identify new needs and opportunities.
5. Present products and/or solutions engagingly and confidently to customers individually and in groups.
6. Manage customer requirements proactively including the development of new ideas and solutions to suit requirements and projects.
7. Calculate selling prices and prepare quotations with the support of a dedicated team.
8. With the support of the Purchasing Manager and dedicated team liaise with suppliers both in Europe and Asia obtaining pricing, printing and delivery information (all communications in English).
9. Receive customer orders and, with the support of the dedicated team ensure the details are entered correctly onto our order management system for the Operations team to then process the order.
10. Support and co-operate with the dedicated team to ensure all orders are fulfilled efficiently and effectively.
11. Take responsibility for dealing with any problems that may on occasion arise.
12. Visit supplier exhibitions and further develop knowledge of promotional marketing, promotional products and branding techniques.

YOU:

• Driven and motivated individual with successful target-driven sales experience.
• A confident, friendly and proactive phone manner and desire to regularly speak with and visit customers and contacts are absolutely essential.
• Good experience in promotional marketing and ideally promotional materials.
• Good University degree with a strong English and Maths capability is highly desirable.
• Must be willing to take a proactive and intelligent approach to the role.

What will you get in return?

Salary: £60,000-£65,000 basic subject to experience and capabilities generous bonus contributory pension.

Benefits: on target bonus, over-target bonus accelerator, contributory pension, mobile, mileage allowance.

Location: This is a full time role that can offer a strong degree of flexible and remote working, but the office is based in Luton and some presence there will be important for team synergy.

Marketing Executive - South Bucks - £35,000

If you're an experienced Marketing Executive with b2b and/or b2c experience looking for a new challenge with a growing company, this could be for you...

What's the business?

This independently owned company have been running for a few years but due to some innnovative new products, they're experiencing a period of rapid growth. In fact, they are expecting to double in size in the next year.

They are a leader in their field and produce premium products that require a correspondingly high level of marketing support. They are based in an easily accessible location with free parking but you must be able to drive.

The office is lovely with an agency type feel and plenty of brand new facilities like gym, huge kitchen and garden which is well used in the summer months.

What's the job?

They are very much looking for an experienced marketer with knowledge of all the various marketing channels. Someone that thrives in a fast paced environment where you are required to work on your own initiative.

A CIM or similar certification is preferable as is B2B experience although you will be involved in consumer campaigns too. If you have used a CRM system, email marketing programme or Canva/InDesign, it would be very helpful too!

What's in it for you?

This company look after their staff.

You can expect a positive, supportive working environment with flexibility on hours and plenty of room for progression. They are full invested in training and development so this will be a great place to learn.

On top of the generous salary, you can expect to receive,

• Pension @ 5%
• 23 days holiday
• Flexible working
• Free Parking
• Free Car wash
• Free Gym
• Lunch on site twice a week free food and drink all day every day

If you'd like to find out more, please apply ASAP

Are you a graduate who has a passion for data & insight? This could be the role for you! Our client is currently looking for an Associate Solutions Analyst to join their ever-growing team that has seen substantial growth over the last 4 years.

What do they do?

They are a specialist international market research agency that help their clients develop a better understanding of their customers levels of satisfaction through insightful research and evaluation to drive increased profit. The agency works with a large range of clients who are some of the world's leading retail and consumer brands.

What they would like from you.

• Bachelor's degree, ideally with an emphasis in Business, Systems Development, or related area or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Experience in data, project management and process modeling of business requirements
• Extreme attention to detail and adherence to quality control processes.
• Demonstrated decision making, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Track record of quickly learning new tools, software or processes
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with team members.

What's in it for you?

• You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary
• Opportunity to travel
• Private healthcare, pension and regular nights out/trips away with the company.
• Free parking
• Join a highly qualified, professional and motivated team of bright people in an easily accessible, comfy office.
• Drive process improvements.
• Be part of an exciting company that will push and support you to move forward in your career and the freedom to express yourself within the role.

If you would like to know more about this position, then please click on the link to apply.

Are you an account handler that is looking for an exciting new challenge in a fast-paced environment? This could be the role for you!

My client is currently looking for an Account Manager to join their ever-growing team that has seen substantial growth over the last 4 years.

What do they do?

They are a specialist international market research & marketing agency that help their clients develop a better understanding of their customers levels of satisfaction through insightful research and evaluation to drive increased profit. The agency works with a large range of clients who are some of the worlds leading retail and consumer brands.

What they would like from you.

• 3-4 years hands on Marketing or Market Research, Customer Satisfaction or customer loyalty experience.
• High degree of numeracy, tenacity and interpersonal skills to deal with several client contacts simultaneously
• Ability to prepare pitch documents
• Understand the current and future challenges facing the client and drive the strategic approach for improvement
• You must demonstrate strong presentation skills at senior management and board level as well as good project management skills, commercial awareness and communication skills.
• Degree educated

What's in it for you?

• You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary
• Opportunity to travel
• Private healthcare, pension and regular nights out/trips away with the company.
• Join a highly qualified, professional and motivated team of bright people in an easily accessible, comfy office.
• Drive process improvements.
• Be part of an exciting company that will push and support you to move forward in your career and the freedom to express yourself within the role.

If you would like to know more about this position, then please click on the link to apply.

Fantastic chance for a driven and enthusiastic Associate Research Director to join an independent market research agency right at the top of their game! The agency is nearing the 40 headcount and works for some of the country's foremost and most exciting brands to provide engaging and actionable insights to their clients. The working environment is superb, and they have a very active social side with vibrant and open-plan offices. Staff turnover is low, due to the work-life balance that they provide in an exciting and fast-paced environment

What do they do?

They are an independent market research agency that delivers engaging & actionable insight across several sectors. They are currently looking for an Associate Director to join their growing Consumer team. They have continued to see significant growth over the last few years and punch well above their weight whilst delivering bespoke research across their individual & diverse projects.

What they would like from you?

• You're an Associate Director who wants the challenge of growing their career
• You've got at least 6-8 years' experience running Qual projects including moderating groups and carrying out depth interviews/intercepts
• Experience writing questionnaires and discussion guides
• Have a natural numerical analytical aptitude
• Able to manage day-to-day client relationships
• Great proposal and report writing skills, and experienced at presenting to clients
• Natural curiosity about shopper behaviour
• You have a curious and enquiring mind
• Strong organisational and project management skills
• You'll have experience of working on projects in the retail and/or consumer sectors

What's in it for you?

You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary which is paying between £44,000 - £55,000, a contributory pension plan, a discretionary annual bonus scheme, private healthcare, 25 days holiday, cool open-plan office, interest-free season ticket loan, regular social events, paid for monthly lunches and more.

Finally, it's an opportunity to be a part of an exciting company that will push and support you to move forward in your career with the freedom to express yourself within the role.

If you would like to know more about this position, then please click on the link to apply OR contact me directly.

Are you a talented and creative Research Executive or Senior Research Executive that is looking for an opportunity to further your career?

Fantastic chance for a driven and enthusiastic Senior Research Executive-Quant to join an independent market research agency right at the top of their game! The agency is nearing the 40 headcount and work for some of the country's foremost and most exciting brands to provide engaging and actionable insights to their clients. The working environment is superb, and they have a very active social side with vibrant and open-plan offices. Staff turnover is low, due to the work-life balance that they provide in an exciting and fast-paced environment

What do they do?

They are an independent market research agency that delivers engaging & actionable insight across several sectors. They are currently looking for a Senior Research Executive to join their growing Consumer team. They have continued to see significant growth over the last few years and punch well above their weight whilst delivering bespoke research across their individual & diverse projects.

What they would like from you?

• You're a RE or SRE who wants the challenge of growing their career
• You've got at least 2-3 years' experience running Quant projects using a range of methods
• Have a natural numerical analytical aptitude
• Great proposal and report writing skills
• Natural curiosity about shopper behaviour & quantitative data
• You have a curious and enquiring mind
• Ideally experience working on projects in the retail and/or consumer sectors
• Expertise in Excel, Powerpoint & ideally knowledge of SPSS

What's in it for you?

You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary which is paying between £27,000 - £35,000, a contributory pension plan, a discretionary annual bonus scheme, private healthcare, 25 days holiday, cool open-plan office, interest-free season ticket loan, regular social events, paid for monthly lunches and more. As a business, they are recognised for developing talent and providing a fun, upbeat environment to work in.

If you are looking for an agency that truly means what they say, then this could be the job for you!

This expanding customer experience & insight agency are looking for someone who has a true passion for insight to join their marketing sciences team.

The opportunity

The Insight Analyst will work as part of a client facing team and will provide world class insights by creating presentations and reports focused on interrogating customer experience data using a broad insight and analysis toolkit.

• Create presentations and reports focused on insights and stories from data
• Liaise with senior client stakeholders
• Actively participate in Insight and Data Science team meetings to share best practices
• Determine best practice insight/analytical guidelines for the team
• Challenge present practices and implement innovative methods
• Present reports to senior business managers and managing workload/prioritisation

Required skills & experience

• Natural inquisitiveness and desire to tackle new and challenging research questions by working with multiple data sources
• Excellent communicator and ability to find meaningful results from raw data
• Analytical, insight and statistical background
• A self-starter, able to manage their own workload
• Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Knowledge of research methodologies, hands on experience and the use of data analysis software i.e. IBM SPSS is desirable.

What they can do for you

• You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary
• Private health-care, pension and regular nights out/trips away with the company.
• Join a highly qualified, professional and motivated team of bright people in an easily accessible, comfy office.
• Opportunity to work from home
• Be part of an exciting company that will push and support you to move forward in your career and the freedom to express yourself within the role.

If you would like to know more about the role please apply via the link or directly and we can go from there.

Programme Manager £25,000-32,000 DOE

High Wycombe

Here at Stonor we are currently looking for a Programme Manager to join an award-winning client of ours and be a part of a brand-new team as well as responsible for maintaining key client programmes.

This exciting and expanding agency & holds some of the world's top companies as their clients across various industries and specialise in Customer Experience and Insight.

The role

• Maintain excellent relations with client/program contacts to keep the program running smoothly both internally and externally
• Liaising with the client/project team at both a strategic and operational level
• Identifying areas where we can support the brands and markets with insight
• Prioritising and time-managing programs relating to the brands and markets, and their tasks to meet dead-lines
• To co-ordinate the design and production of client re-ports/deliverables including liaison with the IT and/or Analysis team to run calculations, update historical data and run reports.
• Support the whole project management function from start to finish

What they want from you

• Experienced project manager or account manaher with client-facing experience
• Ability to multi-task within band between projects and be flexible according to the needs of the business
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Proven client and project management experience

What's in it for you?

• A basic salary of £25-32K
• 25 days annual leave.
• Flexi-time model (finding the right worklife balance for you)
• Employer contributing pension scheme.
• Private medical health-Bupa.
• Bonus Scheme

If this sounds like the ideal role for you, I would love to hear from you.

Please click to apply and we can go from there.

Our client has been delivering exceptional Insight and techniques for their clients for over 25 years and are proud to count some of the UK's leading consumer brands amongst their clients. They are an award-winning Market Research agency that are now looking for a talented and creative Research Director that has passion for research & insight to strengthen their expanding team.

The ideal candidate should have more than 5 years' experience within an agency. No one day will be the same in this fast-paced environment as you would be working across a variety of clients and projects while keeping your team motivated and raring to go!

Required skills:

• Proven experience in designing and delivering high complex, multi-strand projects and meeting deadlines
• A creative mind that can deliver bespoke research solutions
• Experience running combined methodologies
• Ability to inspire those in the team with less experience
• Previous retail, tech/telecoms, FMCG or travel research (desired)
• Experience building strong and commercially successful relationships with key senior level client contacts
• Quantitative research skills

What's in it for you?

You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary, performance-related bonus scheme, private health care, eye-care, pension, interest-free season ticket loan for rail commutes and flexible/remote working (finding the balance between work/home life), 28 days holiday your birthday off, dental scheme, paid-for lunches/snacks and gym discounts. And finally join a Market Research agency that believes in rewarding its staff for their hard work through flexibility, support and progression.

If you would like to know more about the role and the agency, please apply and we can go from there.

Fantastic chance for a driven and enthusiastic New Business Manager to join a market research agency right at the top of their game!

The agency is nearing the 50 headcount and works with some of the world's largest tech-focused brands to provide engaging and actionable insights to their clients. The working environment is superb, and they have a very active social side with vibrant and open-plan offices. Staff turnover is low, due to the work-life balance that they provide in an exciting and fast-paced environment.

What do they do?

They are an independent market research agency that delivers engaging & actionable insight to some of the world's largest technology brands. They have continued to see significant growth over the last 4 years and punch well above their weight whilst delivering bespoke research and expert client advice. They have an excellent reputation within the industry with plenty of inbound sales

What they would like from you.

• You will need experience in sales and account management within the market research sector and have an affinity for the B2B technology sector.
• You will be passionate about developing new business opportunities and be driven in achieving financial targets and other goals
• Strong knowledge of market research methods, terminology and practices.
• Strong communication skills at all levels
• An ability to collaborate constructively with others on developing accounts, opportunities, marketing campaigns and new products
• Able to prioritise effectively
• Driven to achieve financial targets and wider engagement goals

What's in it for you?

You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary, a competitive quarterly 30% bonus, cool open-plan office with free parking, regular social events, paid for monthly lunches.
Finally, it's an opportunity to work for a company that truly promotes work-life balance and the opportunity to be a part of an exciting company that will push and support you to move forward in your career with the freedom to express yourself within the role.

This software firm have revolutionised the way the construction industry operates, with their cutting-edge products. There's facial recognition and fingerprint technology for added security around large sites, there's procurement tools to aid the supply chain process, design software to help with creating drainage or traffic solutions and cost planning programs to assist bids and tenders.

All in all, they have 5 different products, all with a Marketing Manager assigned to each product. At present copy is either outsourced to freelancers, or done by the Marketing Mangers themselves - this is where you come in as a Copywriter; freeing up the Marketing Managers to write engaging content that turns heads, influences decisions, and informs decision makers.

You could be writing a wide range of material from blog posts, whitepapers, creative messaging, social media copy, press releases, internal comms, web publications, research driven copy and more. A wide mix of work which should provide you with lots of variety to keep you entertained.

Sat within a marketing team of 8, you'd be reporting into an experienced, insightful and driven Chief Marketing Officer, who has some amazing growth plans for the marketing department. To give you an idea of the company's growth, they hired over 140 people last year!

Given the nature of the client, writing in the B2B space is crucial, and preferably having experience in writing for the construction sector, or another relevant/transferrable industry.

In the current climate, working from home is paramount, and as time goes on your offices would be based in Central London. It's a real chance to join a company that are striding forward and changing the way the construction industry works.

If you're interested, please send over a CV and folio that showcases your breadth of writing ability.

This excellent B2B marketing agency is really going through a purple patch currently, despite this uncertain market. Over the last 4 months they've seen a massively increased spend from their, already, largest client.

Since 2001 these guys have serviced global technology clients and generated countless inbound leads for them via: extensive lead/demand generation campaigns, partner engagement, channel marketing, creative concepts and social media campaigns.

Due to this influx of work, they're looking for a Senior Account Manager with experience of working both the B2B world, but also in digital marketing agencies. The level of the role would require you to grow and nurture client relationships, with multiple stakeholders within your client, scope out opportunities to grow the account, brief internal creative teams, and manage a small team.

This is a great change to take that next step in your career, as an Account Manager stepping into a role with more responsibility, or as a Senior Account Manager looking for an agency that's really going places.

The salary bracket on offer is wide, from £35k - £45k, as well as offering 25 days' holiday and various other perks. Despite working from home in this current climate, when the situation plays out, you'll still need to be a commutable distance from their Milton Keynes office.

For more information please send over your CV for review.