Graduate Account Executive £23,000 - £27,000 Hertfordshire

Are you a recent graduate who 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 Executive 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 insight 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.

• Knowledge of Market Research, Marketing or Customer satisfaction
• Customer Service - Knowledge of the principals of customer service and basic theories.
• Sales and Marketing - Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services.
• English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
• Customer and Personal Service
• 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.
• 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.

Research Manager

£35,000 - £45,000 DOE, London/WFH
Immediate start, remote onboarding

Fantastic chance for someone with 4 years market research OR insights experience to join a market research agency right at the top of their game! The agency is nearing 100 headcount mark with offices in both the UK and US. The working environment is superb, they have a very active social side with vibrant and open-plan offices and the team are currently all working remotely. Staff turnover is low, due to the work-life balance that they provide in an exciting and fast-paced environment. They are very proud to have won awards last year for being one of the UK's best places to work and excellence in wellbeing.

What do they do?

They are a market research agency with a global presence that is very passionate about the science of behaviour and emotional insights that shape effective strategies to create compelling brand stories. They have continued to see significant growth over the last few years even under tough market conditions and that is why they need to add a new Research Manager to the team.

What they would like from you?
· Prior Market Research agency experience is required 4 years.
· Experience in Qualitative Market Research, Quant research would also be a benefit.
· Experience with moderating in-person, web and via phone. Certification or formal training in moderation is a plus.
· Strong experience working on multiple projects at different stages at the same time.
· Capabilities in the following key areas; accuracy, attention to detail, teamwork, deadline management, workload management.
· Demonstrated ability to contribute within a team.
· High level of proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Word and PowerPoint.
· Bachelor's degree as a minimum

What's in it for you?
You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary which is paying between £35,000 and £45,000, cool open-plan office, regular social events (at the moment online), great perks include private health, free eye care, discount gym membership, flexi-time, in-house training and more.
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.
If you would like to know more about this position, then please click on the link to apply OR reach out directly to Mark Darlington at Stonor Recruitment

One of the UK's leading fine food businesses is looking for a PR & Communications Manager to join their marketing team. Recently recognised as one of the top places to work in the UK, they're a stable business offering long term prospects, strong benefits, and some top tier fine food brands to work with.

The Business

Representing an outstanding portfolio of both globally recognised names and smaller artisan brands in the fine food sector, this longstanding business oversee distribution and brand building campaigns for the products under their umbrella. Founded over 50 years ago, the business remains independent, family owned and is continuing to do exceptionally well. Recently named one of the UKs top places to work, the company offer a supportive, team focused culture - they value and invest in their staff and offer a strong benefits package and plenty of room to grow. As part of ambitious growth plan, the business is now looking for an expereinced PR Manager to join their marketing team..

The Role

Reporting directly to the head of the marketing team, this is an ideal role for any PR professional with roughly 3 or more years expereince who's looking for to join a stable, supportive business where they can work with top tier brands. Expereince working with Food or FMCG clients (Trade and Consumer) is highly beneficial and previous expereince solely leading PR and media relations campaigns (agency or in house) is required. Responsibilities will include:

• The Creation and execution of corporate messaging strategy
• Management of Public relations efforts for company owned brands (global and national names)
• Leading all media relations efforts (trade and consumer) on behalf of the company and the brands it owns and represents
• Management of corporate events

The Opportunity

This is a role that should interest any PR professional who's looking for an in-house position offering stability, variety and the chance to work with a strong line-up of brands. The company are supportive of staff, have won multiple awards for their workplace culture and are enjoying some exciting growth despite global uncertainly. Benefits include:

• Bonus (12.5% of salary measured against performance)
• Private Healthcare
• Above average pension contribution
• Progression and training opportunities
• Varied portfolio of both iconic brands and smaller emerging products to work with

For more information and a detailed job specification, please apply now.

Research Manager

£35,000 - £45,000 DOE, London/WFH
Immediate start, remote onboarding

Fantastic chance for someone with 4 years market research OR insights experience to join a market research agency right at the top of their game! The agency is nearing 100 headcount mark with offices in both the UK and US. The working environment is superb, they have a very active social side with vibrant and open-plan offices and the team are currently all working remotely. Staff turnover is low, due to the work-life balance that they provide in an exciting and fast-paced environment. They are very proud to have won awards last year for being one of the UK's best places to work and excellence in wellbeing.

What do they do?

They are a market research agency with a global presence that is very passionate about the science of behaviour and emotional insights that shape effective strategies to create compelling brand stories. They have continued to see significant growth over the last few years even under tough market conditions and that is why they need to add a new Research Manager to the team.

What they would like from you?
· Prior Market Research agency experience is required 4 years.
· Experience in Qualitative Market Research, Quant research would also be a benefit.
· Experience with moderating in-person, web and via phone. Certification or formal training in moderation is a plus.
· Strong experience working on multiple projects at different stages at the same time.
· Capabilities in the following key areas; accuracy, attention to detail, teamwork, deadline management, workload management.
· Demonstrated ability to contribute within a team.
· High level of proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Word and PowerPoint.
· Bachelor's degree as a minimum

What's in it for you?
You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary which is paying between £35,000 and £45,000, cool open-plan office, regular social events (at the moment online), great perks include private health, free eye care, discount gym membership, flexi-time, in-house training and more.
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.
If you would like to know more about this position, then please click on the link to apply OR reach out directly to Mark Darlington at Stonor Recruitment

Business Development Director - Market Research
Central London- Remote/3 days WFH
£70,000-£80,000 basic plus OTE

Responsibilities

• Upselling accounts by selling in complex intangible solutions
• Building rapport quickly in order to capitalize on relationships formed
• Capable of creating and delivering presentations to c-suite individuals whilst leading the meeting and identifying the needs of the clients
• Working with clients within Tech or Saas sector

What they would like from you.

• At least 5 years experience either within a research organization in the Tech/SaaS space
• Capable of managing a large target of circa £1m-£1.5 as they grow
• Knowledge of the lead generation process in order to leverage passive marketing campaigns
• Highly adaptable and able to work in a fast-paced environment where things change rapidly.
• Knowledge of various research methodologies

If this sounds something you might be interested in please apply to find out more.

An award-winning London based marketing agency is looking for an experienced Partnerships Manager to join them. Global entertainment and lifestyle clients, creative campaigns, a wonderful team, and strong progression prospects on offer.

The Agency

One of the UK's most well-established promotions and partnership marketing agencies, this award-winning outfit has been responsible for some iconic campaigns on behalf of many industry giants in Entertainment, Lifestyle and FMCG. Continuing to offer truly creative promotions and partnerships campaigns to clients has seen the agency steadily grow for almost two decades. Their close-nit team are passionate about entertainment and the brands they represent, and they benefit greatly from a varied workload, some excellent workplace perks and a true commitment to staff wellbeing and career progression. A well run, respected and stable agency who can offer some exciting brands to work with.

The Role

Reporting directly to the Partnership Director, this is a pivotal role in the agency's flagship team. You'll work closely with high value entertainment clients to help identify potential brand partners, securing creative pitch meetings and sealing campaign deals. Specific responsibilities will include:

• Identifying appropriate partner brands, supporting the creation of pitch proposals and handling negotiations and submissions.
• Working closely with clients to foster strong relationships built on trust and understanding of objectives.
• Project managing timing and pipelines to ensure deadlines are met (something under pressure!)
• Generating creative ideas that effectively align clients and potential partner brands.

The Opportunity

If you're interested in joining a stable, well respected award-winning agency then this role should interest you. The role offers the chance to work with iconic global entertainment clients on varied, creative partnership campaigns. You'll get the opportunity to manage and mentor junior staff and further progression to senior manager level is encouraged.

For a highly detailed job specification and plenty more info please apply now.

An industry leading promotional merchandising business is looking for an Account Manager with previous industry expereince. Stable, long-standing business with strong global client portfolio.

The Company

This global merchandising business partner with some of largest companies in the world of Entertainment, Leisure and retail and have grown into one of the leading businesses in their sector over the last 20 years. With a large in-house design and creative team, the business prides itself on offering unique and bespoke merchandise to clients for general retail sale, marketing campaigns, launches and event support. With offices in the U.K, U.S and Far east, their growing team are diverse and close-nit bunch who enjoy strong development opportunities and some exceptional central London offices. As a result of early year growth, the business is now in need of an experienced Account Manager to join them…

The Role

As an Account Manager you'll work to foster relationships with clients, spot opportunities for growth and ensure sales are achieved and delivered smoothly. You'll need previous expereince in the promotional merchandise sector to be considered and responsibilities will include:

• Establish and maintain exceptional client relationships with each unique individual and business.
• Work closely with design team to ensure new ideas are being correctly presented to clients
• Oversee smooth delivery of sales process - working closely with suppliers and clients.
• Working proactively to spot opportunities for growth
• Helping support and mentor junior sales team members

The Opportunity

This is an excellent role for any Merchandise or premiums professional who's looking for a stable and well supported role in a highly respected business. You'll get to work with high value clients in attractive sectors (entertainment, leisure, Media) and there is good scope for growth to senior manager level…

An industry leading promotional merchandising business is looking for an experienced industry professional to join them as an Account Director. Stable, long-standing business with strong global client portfolio.

The Company

This global merchandising business partner with some of largest companies in the world of Entertainment, Leisure and retail and have grown into one of the leading businesses in their sector over the last 20 years. With a large in-house design and creative team, the business prides itself on offering unique and bespoke merchandise to clients for general retail sale, marketing campaigns, launches and event support. With offices in the U.K, U.S and Far east, their growing team are diverse and close-nit bunch who enjoy strong development opportunities and some exceptional central London offices. As a result of early year growth, the business is now in need of an experienced industry Account Director or Senior Manager to join them…

The Role

This is an important senior role for the business that will see the successful candidate reporting directly to the senior management team while overseeing a small team of their own. To be considered for the role, you'll need strong expereince in the merchandise/premiums sector and must be a commercially minded salesperson with the ability to foster relationships with clients. Responsibilities will include

• Oversee and strengthen sales and business development strategy
• Lead and mentor sales team
• Grow strong lasting relationships with key global clients
• Support with new business pitching while helping to identify and pursue opportunities of you own
• Input at senior management meetings.

The Opportunity

If you're a senior sales professional in the Merchandise industry looking for stable role with plenty of opportunity for growth, then this should interest you. You'll be joining a respected, creative and global business and will work with an excellent portfolio of clients in attractive sectors. The opportunity for senior team growth is very much here and despite recent global uncertainty the business is doing well.

Brand Partnerships Manager

Student Event & Content Platform

London / Remote Working Split

£35,000

Company:

This company created an event and discovery platform with the key aim of bringing helpful and highly engaging content to students. The platform is utilised by universities as a great tool to engage students whilst the company's creative / partnership team work closely with some exciting brands with a strong connection to the youth market. These partnerships tend to be promotions as well as on campus events including gigs, pop shops, club nights and experiential activations / product sampling.

Role:

This role will be very creative and will be focused on building out creative solution ideas for brand clients. It is a highly creative role as you will be responsible for coming up with new creative concept ideas for partnerships with the help of the partnerships director (who this role reports in to) as well as the delivery / operations team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the brand partnerships director across all existing projects and accounts with a view to securing new clients and driving revenue opportunities for the business unit.
• Work alongside and reporting into the brand partnership director to help drive growth across the supply side of the business. Aim of the supply team is to work with brands and agencies to create partnership opportunities.
• They want to create long standing partnerships so whilst this role is focused on idea generation and building relationships with new clients, you will also be expected to manage and develop existing clients whilst also working with the delivery team to ensure all projects are delivered based on the key deliverables / SOW.
• Support the brand partnerships director across all key accounts.
• Build relationships with key clients
• Build out contact strategies and pipeline for specific opportunities
• Identify strategic partnerships - using your knowledge of the agency and/or youth space to further reach
• Work with directors to identify upscale opportunities within live accounts
• Respond to briefs and develop your own ideas and ways to create better products
• Organise and contribute to brainstorms with write-up of ideas following session
• Aid team with live projects (where necessary)
• Help to write presentations for meetings and content for various internal/external documents
• Attend client and brand presentations

YOU:

This is a great role for someone who loves brand partnerships and is capable of bringing creative ideas to live through the coming together of brands and students. The successful candidate will have a strong blend of the below attributes:

• Experience in a creative role within brand partnerships
• Experience in a client facing role
• Good budgeting skills
• Ability to develop new client relationships
• Ability to upsell and grow existing accounts

Please apply for more details and a conversation :D

Senior Biddable Executive - £27,000-£33,000

Global Digital Agency

Flexible working

Company & Summary

An exciting advertising agency of 40 people and growing fast. They have a focus on smaller to mid-market clients in paid media and have consistently grown YoY. They are a premier Google partner and regularly host senior Google employees in their office to run events and discussions around the latest trends & techniques. Through growth, they are looking for an ambitious Biddable specialist to work across a number of clients across search & social. If you only focus on search at the moment but want to learn social, this would still be suitable. They allow flexible and remote working as well as regular socials, a free £500 training budget for every employee and free food.

The Role Outline:

• Devise and implement PPC & Paid Social strategies across a number of assigned client accounts and manage the campaigns in accordance with these strategies.
• Responsible for the day to day running and management of these accounts, carrying out technical changes, analysing and drawing insight from third party analytics data, implementing innovative management techniques to maximise campaign performance.
• Ensure that all customer accounts managed by you have a commercial strategy in place, together with specific performance targets and objectives tailored to meet or exceed the business and commercial expectations of the client
• To work closely with the Head of Biddable when devising and managing advanced strategies for T1 clients
• To develop a strong understanding of the products, competition, industry, marketing goals and objectives of each of your customers

What are the key skills & attributes that they are looking for in candidates?

• Numerate with great business acumen
• Experienced in managing customer budgets
• Literate with the ability to produce top quality written reports
• 1-2 years' experience of PPC management
• Good knowledge of paid search methodologies and techniques for managing search campaigns on Google
• Paid Social knowledge is desirable
• Basic knowledge of Google Analytics and other major third-party analytics platforms
• Good working knowledge of major social media channels including Facebook and Twitter, with some knowledge of running paid advertising campaigns on these platforms
• Ability to setup and implement new PPC accounts

Please apply for a discussion in more detail!

Account Manager, £30,000-45,000 DOE, Hertfordshire

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 global insight 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 (When we can)
• 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.

An Award-winning boutique agency with a stellar portfolio of clients in the video game sector is looking for a PR Account Executive or Senior Executive to join their team. Passionate and welcoming team, Amazing client portfolio and a rewarding culture on offer…

The Agency

Established for over 20 years, this specialist agency has grown alongside the gaming sector it works with to become one of the go-to PR agencies in its field. Winner of multiple best agency awards in it's time, the team here are hugely passionate about the sector and deliver comms, social and influencer campaigns on behalf of many industry giants. Central London based, the agency offers a fun, welcoming environment, progression and training opportunities, and an excellent level of support from senior management for employees at all levels. After a strong start to the year, they are now looking to add to their team.

The Role

This is an ideal role for any PR Account Executive or Senior PR Account Executive looking to combine their PR expereince with a personal passionate or interest in gaming. To be considered, you'll need a least a year's expereince in an agency (working with clients in any sector) and a keen interest in gaming and the wider gaming industry (this is important!) Responsibilities will include:

• Working to foster strong relationships with industry Media and Influencers
• Writing and distributing press release, blog and social content for clients
• Regular contact with clients
• Attending industry events/launches
• Helping craft creative pitches for new business

The Opportunity

If you're a PR professional looking to combine your work and personal interests in entertainment tech, then this should interest you. You'll be joining an award-winning, stable and well-respected agency and will have the chance to work with some iconic clients from the start. The team are a lovely bunch at all levels and the ole offers good scope for training and further growth