A UK Top 150 Communications agency is looking for an experienced Account Manager to work on high profile B2B accounts. Industry leading agency, excellent progression prospects and a welcoming, social team await.

The Agency

This top UK agency are the global leaders in providing communications campaigns to their specialist client base. Based out of brilliantly furnished offices in a desirable regional location, the agency is recognised by PR week as being in the top 150 agencies in the UK and they are continuing to grow well even in these uncertain times. With a strong track record for training and development, many of their staff have been with them for much of their careers and anyone joining can expect a welcoming, social and rewarding atmosphere with plenty of opportunity for advancement.

The Role

This role will be well suited to any Senior Executive or Manager level Communications/PR candidate who's looking for a role with personal and professional development prospects. The role will see the successful candidate acting as a primary point of contact for clients as well as overseeing Media Relations and content creation on a regular basis. Objectives of the role include:

• Manage Multiple communications projects of varying scope and size.
• Combine creativity with research and industry knowledge to identify new hooks, angles and thought leaderships themes that deliver for clients
• Mentor Junior staff members to ensure they can develop and thrive
• Become a trusted point of contact for Clients.

What's in it for you?

As a steadily expanding, privately-owned company, the agency offers significant opportunities for long-term career development. A stable, long standing global client base also provides potential for international travel. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced PR professional to work with high profile, innovative clients in an agency renowned for developing staff. There is an attractive package on offer here too, Including:

• New Business commission scheme (typically 9%)
• Childcare scheme
• Pension Scheme
• Funding for training and development
• Macbook for each employee
• Access to Perkbox rewards

Promotional Products Account Manager

£35,000 - £45,000 Commission

An industry leading promotional merchandising company are looking for experienced account handlers. Global brands, strong earning potential and plenty of prospects await…

The Company

This central London company are one of the top businesses in their sector. Specialising in the design, production and delivery of promotional products for multiple sectors, they work with over 20 of the World's most valuable brands in sectors including, automotive, finance, food, logistics, technology and retail. The company is proud of its office and work place environment and the large team are a welcoming, diverse and social group. The business continues to perform well - even in uncertain times - and as a result of this growth the company is very keen to speak with experienced Account Managers in the promotional merchandising industry.

The Role

This is an important role for the business and will see the successful candidate working across several key global clients to foster lasting relationships and maximize revenue opportunities. You'll work with top brands from the start and the commission scheme on offer presents very strong earning potential. Responsibilities include:

• Develop and maintain relationships within all key departments for assigned clients, including sales, marketing and procurement contacts.
• Understand client business initiatives, sales and marketing strategy, sales distribution channel, procurement process, brand strategy, brand identity guidelines, event schedules, ad campaigns, anniversaries, product introductions, in order to proactively present product ranges and secure merchandise orders.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of company's product lines and processes, sales philosophy, and industry conditions to provide innovative support and technical assistance to customers.

The Opportunity

This company are extremely well backed and form part of large global group. They have a commitment to work environment and staff well-being, offer strong progression opportunities, work from home is available and the commission scheme on offer is highly attractive. If you're keen to join a role with potential in a business that's going places, then this role should appeal to you...

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Opportunity to join a UK top 150 communications agency. Excellent role for any junior PR professional with industry experience who's looking to enter an industry leading agency who value their staff and offer strong prospects.

The Agency

This Oxfordshire based PR agency are the global leaders in providing communications services to their specialist client base. Based out of brilliantly furnished offices in a desireable location, the agency is recognised by PR week as being in the top 150 agencies in the UK and they are continuing to grow well even in these uncertain times. With a strong track record for training and development, many of their staff have been with them for much of their careers and anyone joining can expect a welcoming, social and rewarding atmosphere.

The Role

This Account Executive role is vital for the agency and will see the successful candidate supporting Account Managers with content writing, media relations and client interaction. To be considered for this role you will need some expereince (6 months) in journalism, PR or communications and must be confident in your ability to write long and short form content. Responsibilities inlude:

• Writing high quality copy and press releases
• Supporting the delivery of communications campaigns with proactivity and creativity
• Displaying a sound understanding of social and digital media when working on integrated campaigns
• Fostering strong client relationships.
• Keeping up to date with industry trends and relevant news

What's in it for you?

As a steadily expanding, privately-owned company, the agency offers significant opportunities for long-term career development. A stable, long standing global client base also provides potential for international travel. This is an excellent opportunity for a prospective candidate to get a foothold in a highly-respected PR agency, develop their skills and rise through the ranks. There is an attractive package on offer here too, Including:

• New Business commission scheme (typically 9%)
• Childcare scheme
• Pension Scheme
• Funding for training and development
• Macbook for each employee
• Access to perkbox rewards

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.

From humble beginnings in 2012, this company now employee over 60 people at their cutting edge, purpose-built offices. Their enterprise B2B software is loved by some of the world's leading companies and they are growing exponentially. They are an engineering-led company and an agile, innovative team, meaning the entire focus is on product excellence and delighting customers.

About the Role

They are looking for an experienced Head of Content to take full ownership of the content strategy output. This person will manage one full time content writer and will work alongside the lead generation, tech evangelist and web teams to ensure high quality content is produced at scale and is effectively presented across website and e-mail campaigns. While this role requires management skills (proof-reading and project management), you will also be required to write original copy individually.

Key responsibilities

• Take ownership of the end-to-end content production pipeline and messaging, including managing one full time content writer, project-manage internal subject matter experts and external sources.
• Review and maintain content calendar, ensuring timely delivery.
• Review and uphold tone of voice and messaging consistency across all properties.
• Write content pieces from scratch, including desk research, interviews all the way to 1^st draft.
• Deliverables include web pages, sales enablement materials, case studies, blogposts, interviews, videos scripts, webinars and SEO keywords input to lead generation team.
• Review, edit and deliver high quality content quickly, including case studies, interviews & blogposts.
• Decide the most effective way of presenting content inventory, with inputs from the lead generation and web UX teams.

About you

• At least 5 years in roles where writing or proof-reading technical copy was a big part of your job.
• High-output, high-quality technical content writer.
• Your work should require little or no review & edits before publishing.
• Excellent proof-reading skills in the tech industry, ideally in software.

What will you get in return?

• Great culture: We put culture first and believe in creating a great environment where people are happy to come to work every day.
• Stunning office: Picture yourself in a brand-new, state-of-the-art office
• Edge technology: Use the latest tools & practices in every area of the business to work fast and smart
• Gadgets galore: Fancy a sit-stand desk? Want to try out an Oculus Rift or Microsoft HoloLens? Look no further
• Smart colleagues: Be part of a great team, working with talented, like-minded peers
• Take a break: Eat some free snacks or a great coffee and relax with a game of table-football or ping-pong
• Social: From tech meetups to rollercoasters, from poker to board games, from Star Wars to cocktails, there's always tons going on.
• BENEFITS: 10% pension, Private Health, 25 days holiday, competitive Salaries.

Running for over 6 years, this fully remote and highly profitable subscription led business uses unique technology to researches thousands of betting promotions, and gives clear instructions to its subscribers on how to leverage risk free profit using match betting. They are about to undergo a technology overhaul from the ground up, with the aim to build faster and more efficient odds-matching software for their customers.

About You

You are a proactive communicator who is happy working from home full-time as part of a close-knit development team. You'll be comfortable working across the software stack and particularly enjoy contributing to performant, service-oriented architectures. You will also be open to working with a variety of other technologies to support the team's objectives.

You are a pragmatic developer who is comfortable working with light processes, established by developers, and you will enjoy working with their team because they spend as much of their time as possible doing what we love - developing awesome software. You will be working with other like-minded developers to contribute to the success of critical applications and services. Collaboration is key to the success of their small team of 5, and their developers are encouraged and empowered to stay at the bleeding-edge of the technologies they love and bring ideas to the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Write performant, highly available, scalable, asynchronous matched betting software
• Assume a key role in design sessions with other developers
• Share ownership in the development of our applications and services from inception to delivery
• Share knowledge proactively and participate in code reviews and demos

Experience / Skills

Essential

• At least 6 years' C# development experience
• Excellent communication skills
• An ability to solve complex problems with simple solutions
• A fundamental desire to produce code of the highest standard
• An open-minded, collaborative approach to software development
• Experience with Service Orientated Architecture
• CI / CD
• Enterprise messaging systems (e.g. RabbitMQ)
• Distributed caches (e.g. Redis)

Desirable

• Experience working in a similar industry such as betting, financial or online gaming
• .Net Core
• AWS / Azure
• Docker / Kubernetes or similar
• Experience working in a team using source control including pull requests with GIT
• SQL Server 2012 (T-SQL queries)
• NoSQL databases (ideally Mongo)
• React

What They Can Offer

• Fully remote working
• Greenfield projects - we really are rebuilding our software from the ground up!
• Salary between £50k and £65k DOE

An award winning marketing communications agency specialising in employee engagement based in stunning offices in North Oxfordshire. This independent, growing business work with an extensive list of blue-chip clients in the FMCG, Telco/mobile and IT sectors. They are experts at helping big businesses motivate and retain their staff. They do this by developing rewards programmes, team building activities, product launches, exhibitions, customer incentives and promotions usually with a digital element.

The Role

You will be responsible for bringing to fruition a range of digital marketing programmes and the strategic planning of the clients' requirements as part of ongoing marketing and reward programmes. Leaning on your account management experience you will play a key part in driving the success of the business.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Develop existing accounts - growing depth of contacts and size of opportunities
• Work within a team structure, motivating, guiding and developing those in your team
• Take responsibility for client relationships, account targets, account performance,

• Own all client proposals, budgets and client comms, utilizing your team to provide excellence
• Own the strategic development of the account and the teams knowledge of client objectives

This is a really exciting time to be joining this agency as they begin a massive growth phase, the team provide a fun, upbeat environment and there is loads of scope to develop your career in account/project management.

What's in it for you?

As you might imagine, this business know how to look after their staff. Besides the opportunity to work for a market leading agency in a great location, you can also expect to receive,

• Private Healthcare
• Pension
• Very generous bonus scheme
• Regular social events
• Career development programme

To find out more please apply with your CV ASAP!

This is a dream job for anyone who wishes they could have more impact in their current agency...

It's your opportunity to join a boutique, growing, well-backed start-up marketing communications business. One that has been set up to reward employees and ensure you grow as they do. Their investors are very excited about the technology that underpins their agency, which ensures that their clients have full visibility when it comes to cross channel performance and effectiveness.

Our client is based in Oxford Street (after lockdown!). They are looking for a talented, ambitious Senior / PR Manager to join them on a permanent basis, helping develop and implement PR solutions for a range of their clients.

The Role:

As a PR Consultant you will bring specific PR/media relations experience to the team. With the help of the in-house technology, you will be responsible for delivering PR programmes and driving activity day-to-day across several clients and projects. But you will spend most of your time coming up with ideas, stories and advice that go above-and-beyond the expectations of our clients.

• Client management: you will be working with clients every day, listening to their issues and providing solutions.
• Creative thinking and strategic advice: there will not be a day that goes by where you aren't spending time coming up with creative ideas to solve their clients' biggest problems, whether that is how to amplify a new product launch or how to navigate a tricky reputational issue. This is their absolute focus and what sets us apart.
• Content: you will be working with the in-house tech to hone content and content strategy clients. You will have an earned PR focus but also be able to advise fluidly across paid, owned and social.
• New business and marketing: Everyone at the agency 'sells' because we fundamentally believe in the problems the industry faces and the solutions they are building to solve them. You will play a key part in growing the business by supporting marketing activity, writing your own content, attending events and conferences, and creating thought leadership.
• Systems management: we use the best tech in the business to get the job done - so you won't be doing what you'd expect from a role at a normal agency. You'll be managing this tech so that it works best for our clients, and turning this into creative ideas, insight and constant advice.

Key Personal Attributes:

• Media relations expertise: you will have a wide-ranging knowledge of PR and media tactics and best practice. You will constantly keep ahead of the latest developments and be eager to learn all the time.
• Generalist PR experience: you will be as comfortable handling corporate announcements and providing strategic advice as you are thinking about creative concepts for clients.
• Relationships and track record: you will have a good knowledge of the media landscape with established relationships and demonstrable coverage delivery in the past.
• Independence: The culture is about getting the job done, it's not about a 9-5 job in the office. They want people who are flexible and take responsibility and initiative for their own work, development, and careers. They trust you to do your job and put in 110% - and for that, they provide a culture of ultimate flexibility and trust.
• Communications: you will have strong communication skills with a focus on both intra- and inter-team collaboration.
• Writing: you are a strong writer with an ability to think and create at pace.
• A creative mindset: They need people who have ideas and are not afraid to share them. People who can think about the problems and challenges their clients face and how they can drive real insight and intelligence that helps them to solve them.

What will you get in return?

In addition to a very competitive starting salary, you will also receive the below benefits:

• The opportunity to join the employee share option scheme.
• A radically transparent bonus structure, where you could receive up to 30% of salary depending on company and personal performance.
• They also contribute some of their outperformance to charitable causes - and you help choose those causes.
• A new business bonus for any new clients you win for the company.
• Bonus for any new staff you refer.
• Matched pension contribution.
• Unlimited holiday and flexible working.
• The day off (guaranteed) for your birthday.
• A day off (also guaranteed) if you need to move house.
• Wellness/mindfulness time within working hours every week for those that want it

Passionate about their work and well respected in their sector, this Berkshire based marketing agency has been delivering award-winning inbound B2B marketing strategies for over a decade and just achieved back to back months of record revenue. With a long-standing client base covering the UK, Scandinavia, Central Europe and the United States, their rates of retention are outstanding - something they are particularly proud of. Based out of easily accessible offices in an attractive Berkshire location, they offer onsite parking and flexible working. Their medium sized team enjoy a relaxed atmosphere with absolutely no politics and their low staff turnover reflects this. Having reached a certain size and with ambitious growth plans, they are now looking for a dedicated Operations Director, hopefully with some experience from a larger agency.

Broad outline of responsibilities and skills required:

Your main aim will be to evolve the operational efficiency of the business and build on internal processes to ensure the company continues to operate efficiently as they grow.

• Review company-wide working practices and operational processes to increase operational efficiency and productivity
• Help ensure the business keeps up-to-date on safety and compliance regulations
• Ensuring adherence to company policies and procedures across all departments
• Being an advocate for and helping to implement company culture across a growing organisation
• Experience with software and technologies that help streamline efficiency within the marketing agency setting.
• Experience in an operational role within a digital marketing agency would be preferred
• Liaising between departments to ensure smooth and efficient cross-departmental communications and workflows
• Helping with the recruitment, training and monitoring of new staff
• Management and oversight of company financial operational processes, and working closely with senior leadership to report on and highlight any issues
• Oversight and responsibility for company GDPR practices
• Lead on and develop company policy
• Proven experience working closely with business leaders and stakeholders to achieve company objectives
• Proven management experience and/or experience coaching team members
• Proven experience leading and delivering projects
• Working knowledge of data analysis, BI and performance/operation metrics
• Fast and confident decision-maker
• Effective problem solver

If you have experience in the sourcing and sale of promotional products, this company will be interested in speaking to you...

They provide promotional products and incentives to some of the world's biggest online gaming companies. Based in Central London and growing fast, they offer a fun, fast paced working environment where staff are rewarded for their efforts.

Main Responsibilities

• Oversee the production process
• Ensure that the production is cost effective
• Maintaining an electronic filing system.
• Managing the work of account executive
• Liaise with different departments, e.g. suppliers, managers
• Manage clients purchases from initial quote stage through to order fulfilment
• Providing formal quotations
• Calculate percentages and negotiate with suppliers to receive the most competitive quotes
• Source and supply merchandise from factories worldwide
• Effective organizational skills and resolving administrative problems.
• Ensuring files are invoiced in right time frame, checking supplier invoice against order.

Requirements

• Understanding of Promotional Merchandise or have experience in buying (3 years' experience)
• Understanding of Far east sourcing, currency and logistics
• Proficient inf Microsoft Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint
• Excellent customer service and computer skills.
• Negotiating Skills.
• Good telephone and communication skills and a good standard of written and spoken English
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Adept at managing clients over the phone
• Good time management, organisational skills and ability to multi-task and prioritise.
• Excellent computer skills, with experience of Word, Excel, and databases.
• Enjoy working in a team environment and able to get on well with all people at all levels.
• Creative with ability to deliver ideas around custom products

What's in it for you?

This is an exciting time for a company that has never been so busy. Having recently moved to new offices, they are looking to hire at least two new client services staff to manage their ever increasing workload. On top of an excellent basic salary, you can expect to receive

• Generous bonus paid quarterly based on GP
• 25 days holiday
• Early finish on a Friday
• Flexible working arrangements
• Company phone and laptop
• Contributory pension
• Regular company funded days/nights out
• Clear career development plan
• Regular pay reviews

For further information please contact & apply now.

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.

A rapidly growing technology business servicing the FMCG sector are looking for 2x Customer Success / Sales account managers to join their team in Central London.

The Business

As mentioned, this business are a well established yet rapidly growing technology company have been set up to provide an e-commerce, insights and analytics platform to the largest brands in the world. They work with the biggest names in the FMCG space and continue to develop their exceptional offering. Based in the UK, Europe and the US the business is at an exciting stage of growth and now need to enhance their Customer Success team.

The Role

You will have had exposure to large FMCG brands whether in a Category manager, field sales manager or Brand sales role. You will be managing a range of key accounts and targeted on growing and retaining these, alongside a consultative new business process. The platform you are providing speaks for itself and the business receive excellent Net Promotor scores.

Some of your key focus areas are below:

• New business development identifying opportunities to grow our client base across our UK and international markets
• Ensure client renewals through the effective relationship management between client and yourself. The goal is to make clients' money
• Effectively showcasing services and ever evolving new products to existing clients, helping them to continually improve and grow online market share as they scale
• To maintain a world class net promoter score across your clients, be the key point of contact to drive the growth for the brands you will manage.

What's in it for you?

A generous basic salary of up to £50K DOE. Plus an unbelievable commission / bonus structure and the below benefits:

• 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays
• Your birthday day off every year
• Private medical insurance
• Life Insurance - Critical Illness and Death in Service 4 x basic salary
• Generous Company pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Two Company events every year - summer and Christmas