Account / Project Manager - £35-40k - Buckinghamshire

An exciting opportunity to join one of the best integrated agencies in the South East.

The Business

When I say one of the best integrated agencies I mean it!

Having been established for nearly 20 years this agency have developed from humble beginnings into a team of 55 people spread over 3 continents. Their client base includes some of the world's largest brands in financial services, leisure, sport, travel and technology. They work on both the b2b and consumer side and their creative team have won countless awards in the past few years.

If you enjoy working in a collaborative, fast paced environment with a work hard, play hard attitude then this is the place to be...

The Role

Working on a range of blue-chip clients you will have a keen eye for detail and be able to manage a project from inception through to delivery. You will be responsible for the day to day management of the account will be happy managing a large workload but also managing direct reports.

Key attributes you'll need are below:

• Expertise in planning, coordination, management, and communication skills
• Ability to work autonomously as well as within teams
• Ability to distil and translate complex information to others simply and concisely
• Think on your feet and make sensible decisions to keep projects moving
• Manage project workflow through appropriate software and / or systems
• Client relationship - nothing is ever a problem for you and your glass is always half full

If you enjoy the client interaction but love getting stuck into projects then this role will offer you the perfect balance.

What's in it for you?

Besides the opportunity to work in what must be one of the best agency environments in the country, you will be rewarded with a £35-40k basic salary plus benefits:

• 20days holiday
• A contributory pension scheme
• Private medical healthcare
• Group life assurance -
• Subsidised gym membership
• Company sponsored events
• Office goodies

The team have multiple fee-earners highly ranked in the legal directories and the firm are recognised for it's collegiate and supportive culture. This position would suit a recently qualified NQ or March/September qualifier looking for a regional location with city quality work.

You can expect to advise employers: construction professionals; contractors and sub-contractors which will bring exposure across a broad range of matters. Business development and marketing activity is encouraged at all levels. Typical disputes may include: interim and final payments disputes; professional negligence claims; and issues of delay and defective works.

The ideal individual will bring high-quality city or regional experience and have completed a minimum of one seat in Construction during their Training Contract.

An attractive financial package is on offer career progression, are both on offer for the right person.

The company are a small but rapidly growing tech start-up in incubation phase. They were spun out from, and are backed by, their parent company who are a hugely successful and profitable tech scale up. The parent company were founded in 2011 are fast becoming the best dashboarding tool for Enterprise IT and DevOps. While delivering SCOM based dashboards, they parent company came across a number of opportunities in SCOM itself that it felt would be best delivered by a dedicated team - so this exciting startUp were born.

They were established early in 2019 to give Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (aka SCOM) some much needed love, filling core platform holes, extending its core capabilities and integrating it into other tools such as ServiceNow - the best of breed ITOM and ITSM platform on the market.

The Role

You will be the first Marketeer in a small but rapidly growing company. You will be responsible for establishing digital presence, overseeing events and all aspects of product marketing. Your work will be instrumental in the success of the business

Key responsibilities:

• Producing eye-catching, engaging content such as infographics, videos, blogs and more
• Delivering beautifully designed and intelligently crafted emails
• Creating lead nurture automation in existing automation platform (ActiveCampaign)
• Helping capitalise on the many leads free downloads generate
• Setting up and owning Google AdWords to promote products
• SEO optimization
• Creating great posts to grow social media following and engagement
• Helping plan and manage events in the UK and around the world, with opportunities to attend too
• Using best-of-breed digital technologies like ActiveCampaign, Wordpress, Google Analytics, and more

The successful candidate will have:

• 3 years experience in digital marketing
• Experience in marketing software products
• A bachelors degree
• Take a hands on approach
• Pride in the work you do
• Passion for your role and field
• The drive to start something from scratch and the grit to stick with it when the journey is hard

What will you get in return?

• 25 days holiday Bank Holidays
• Top tier pension scheme
• Private Healthcare
• 10% company bonus
• Core hours of 10am-4pm
• Some flexible / remote working offered

The company is a well established customer experience & insight agency with a well established international client base. They are based in South Bucks and widely regarded as the best at what they do!

What do they do?

They specialise in helping their UK & global clients develop a better understanding of their customers levels of satisfaction through insight, research and marketing.

The opportunity

This is a great chance to join the company at a senior level within the agency and be responsible for developing and managing client projects designed to harvest customer opinion, analyse and create engaging and actionable insight on how to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Required skills:

• Understand the current and future challenges facing clients and drive the strategic approach for improvement
• Ensure all client briefs are interpreted and responded to in a timely and full manor
• Experience implementing new business strategy and fulfil defined tasks in the acquisition and subsequent development of new accounts
• Over 3 years agency experience minimum
• Tenacity and interpersonal skills to deal with a number of client contacts simultaneously
• Strong presentation and communications skills
• Project management skills
• Digital platform and web experience
• Ability to prepare quotations and pitch documents
• Experience working with on-line portals produced for clients
• Automotive background

Whats in it for you?

In return for your hard work and exceptional client handling skills, you can expect to receive an excellent basic salary, a generous bonus scheme, flexible start time, private health care, pension and regular nights out/trips away with the company

Are you an ambitious, inspiring marketer with a passion for paid media and digital innovation?

This is a rare opportunity to join a well-respected, independent marketing agency in Buckinghamshire.

What do they do?

The business is very well established with a fascinating client base covering, healthcare, automotive, consumer tech, not-for-profit and leisure.

They really do cover all areas of the marketing spectrum including,

• Strategy and Planning
• Creative Services
• Instore & Experiential
• Digital, Content and Social
• Video and Visual Content
• PR and Brand Partnerships
• Insight and Data

What will you be doing?

As the Paid Media Manager you will be responsible for all ad trafficking for clients as well as strategy, planning and reporting. You need to be excited about all digital marketing channels and have the drive and inclination to remain at the forefront of this ever-expanding industry. You will need to have experience in all paid social platforms (particularly Facebook) as well as Display and Search activity. A desire to deliver exceptional Paid Media campaigns is absolutely crucial!

Some key criteria are below:

• Proven experience of implementing successful strategies in Paid Media
• Expert knowledge of all Facebook ad types both from a management and set-up perspective
• Experience with the Google Display Network
• Google Adwords Qualified
• Excellent knowledge of Google Analytics
• Good understanding of wider digital channels and integration

What's in it for you?

A generous basic salary of £30-40,000 plus:

• Contributory pension 5%
• Profit linked bonus
• 25 days holiday plus Christmas off
• Flexible working
• Regular nights out and trips away on the company
• A personalised development plan

If you'd like to find out more about this, please apply below or contact Sam Angell at Stonor.

An exciting opportunity to join one of the best integrated agencies in the South East.

The Business

When I say one of the best integrated agencies I mean it!

Having been established for nearly 20 years this agency have developed from humble beginnings into a team of 55 people spread over 3 continents. Their client base includes some of the world's largest brands in financial services, leisure, sport, travel and technology. They work on both the b2b and consumer side and their creative team have won countless awards in the past few years.

If you enjoy working in a collaborative, fast paced environment with a work hard, play hard attitude then this is the place to be...

The Role

Working on a range of blue-chip clients you will have a keen eye for detail and be able to manage a project from inception through to delivery. You will be responsible for the day to day management of the account will be happy managing a large workload but also managing direct reports.

Key attributes you'll need are below:

• Expertise in planning, coordination, management, and communication skills
• Ability to work autonomously as well as within teams
• Ability to distil and translate complex information to others simply and concisely
• Think on your feet and make sensible decisions to keep projects moving
• Manage project workflow through appropriate software and / or systems
• Client relationship - nothing is ever a problem for you and your glass is always half full

If you enjoy the client interaction but love getting stuck into projects then this role will offer you the perfect balance.

What's in it for you?

Besides the opportunity to work in what must be one of the best agency environments in the country, you will be rewarded with a £35-40k basic salary plus benefits:

• 20days holiday
• A contributory pension scheme
• Private medical healthcare
• Group life assurance -
• Subsidised gym membership
• Company sponsored events
• Office goodies

This leading customer experience and market research agency works with and for many of the world's top companies in various industries with clients from a wide range of sectors from Automotive, Healthcare, Financial, Retail & B2B

The Opportunity

This is a great opportunity to be a part of a dynamic and influential team in the business and provide integral customer insight to their extensive international client list. You would be part of the client facing team within the Marketing Sciences dept to help answer and solve problems for their internal and external clients and provide clear insight.

The role

• Ability to handle and work with large data sets and apply statistical techniques to answer complex business problems
• Present analyses to internal and external clients
• Actively participate in Marketing Sciences team meetings
• Develop presentations /dashboards for monthly/quarterly reports
• Determining best practice analysis guidelines for the team
• Mentoring junior members of the see and oversee their day - to -day work
• Challenge present practices and implement innovative methods

What they want from you

• 5 years of hands on experience working with data analysis and visualisation tools
• Strong analytical, insight and statistical background
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
• A strong knowledge of research methodologies, hands on experience and the use of data analysis software i.e. IBM SPSS is desirable
• Experience with text analytics and knowledge of text mining and NLP
• Experience of using advanced analytical statistical techniques to derive insight
• Knowledge of data visualization best practice and ability to find stories in data

Desired:

• Experience using R and Python, Qlik/Tableau

What's in it for you?

• You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary.
• 25 days annual leave
• Flexi-time model (finding the right worklife balance for you)
• Employer contributing pension scheme.
• Private medical health-Bupa.
• Bonus Scheme
• 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 the role and the agency please apply and we can go from there.

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 manager 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 send your CV with a covering letter and we can go from there.

This expanding market research and CX agency works with clients from a wide range of sectors across the UK and worldwide.

The Opportunity

This is a great opportunity to join a pivotal project team in the agency and support the smooth running of the Customer Satisfaction programme. Part of a great team, you would be responsible for the coordination of the programme at a day-to-day level in line with client's requirements and needs.

Duties include

• Supporting the programme team to ensure the smooth-running of the account.
• Delving into diverse tasks from areas including client management, programme management, stakeholder management and reporting.
• Liaising with the client to feedback on progress and identify alterations to deliverables
• Liaising with IT and Analytical services to coordinate and design client reports

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.
• 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.

What they are looking for from you!

• Knowledge of market research, marketing or account management
• Proficiency in MS Office, specifically Excel
• Ability to plan workload and prioritise, work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Analytical mind/thinker
• Ability to work and cooperate successfully in a small team
• Ability to think on your feet

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

The company are a small but rapidly growing tech start-up in incubation phase. They were spun out from, and are backed by, their parent company who are a hugely successful and profitable tech scale up. The parent company were founded in 2011 are fast becoming the best dashboarding tool for Enterprise IT and DevOps. While delivering SCOM based dashboards, they parent company came across a number of opportunities in SCOM itself that it felt would be best delivered by a dedicated team - so this exciting startUp were born.

They were established early in 2019 to give Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (aka SCOM) some much needed love, filling core platform holes, extending its core capabilities and integrating it into other tools such as ServiceNow - the best of breed ITOM and ITSM platform on the market.

The Role

You will be the first Marketeer in a small but rapidly growing company. You will be responsible for establishing digital presence, overseeing events and all aspects of product marketing. Your work will be instrumental in the success of the business

Key responsibilities:

• Producing eye-catching, engaging content such as infographics, videos, blogs and more
• Delivering beautifully designed and intelligently crafted emails
• Creating lead nurture automation in existing automation platform (ActiveCampaign)
• Helping capitalise on the many leads free downloads generate
• Setting up and owning Google AdWords to promote products
• SEO optimization
• Creating great posts to grow social media following and engagement
• Helping plan and manage events in the UK and around the world, with opportunities to attend too
• Using best-of-breed digital technologies like ActiveCampaign, Wordpress, Google Analytics, and more

The successful candidate will have:

• 3 years experience in digital marketing
• Experience in marketing software products
• A bachelors degree
• Take a hands on approach
• Pride in the work you do
• Passion for your role and field
• The drive to start something from scratch and the grit to stick with it when the journey is hard

What will you get in return?

• 25 days holiday Bank Holidays
• Top tier pension scheme
• Private Healthcare
• 10% company bonus
• Core hours of 10am-4pm
• Some flexible / remote working offered

Do you have the drive and motivation to be part of a team that is responsible for all Data, Insight and Reporting services internally and for an extensive client list?

This is a great opportunity to join a well-established Marketing agency and have a real impact/influence on the business to help continue to grow as a Sales & Marketing agency.

You will play an integral part in providing management information and actionable insights that will drive efficiency within retail across their strong client base. You will also play a key role in building dashboard reporting that can simplify complex data stories and make digestible weekly and monthly reports for management teams.

What they would like from you

• Strong experience in generating reports for senior managers (2 years minimum)
• Experience building data capture question sets to match client requirements
• The ability to tell data stories and provide actionable insights
• Experience cleansing and manipulating data sets
• Ability to prioritise and manage fast paced and varied requests from key stakeholders
• Highly inquisitive and extremely analytical
• Strong in Powerpoint and Excel
• Basic SQL knowledge would be desirable

What's in it for you?

• Competitive Salary £25,000-£30,000
• 15% performance related bonus
• Benefits
• 20 days holiday
• Pension
• Opportunity to work with gloabl technology companies
• Ongoing career and development opportunities

If this sounds like something you, please apply to find out more about the agency and the role in more detail.

We are currently looking for an Insight Analyst to join our growing Market Research client based in Buckinghamshire and be a part of their Marketing Science team. They provide integral actionable insight to their extensive global client list across various industries.

The role

• Be able to handle and work with large data sets and apply analytical techniques to answer complex business problems.
• Collaborating with team members and clients to understand business issues/questions, and then develop and execute appropriate analysis plans
• Present and interpret analyses for internal and external clients
• Actively participate in Marketing Sciences team meetings
• Develop presentations/dashboards for monthly/quarterly reports

What they want from you.

• 2 years of hands on experience working with data to deliver analyses which provides clear business insight
• Good understanding of basic research principles
• Advanced Excel, VBA, Powerpivot and the Microsoft Office suite of tools
• Excellent communication skills; must be able to communicate technical information to less technical audiences
• Experience working with Text Analytics
• A knowledge of research methodology, statistical analysis and data analysis software (SPSS/R is desirable but not essential)
• Experience presenting reports to senior business managers.

What's in it for you?

• A basic salary of £25,00-£30,000
• 25 days annual leave.
• A trust time flexible model (Able to find the right work life 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.