Account manager - Consumer Entertainment: Brands

Salary: £35,000 to £40,000 dependent on experience

Reporting line: You will report to Jess Balodis (Director of Brands and Music) and Matthew Davis (Associate Director, Brands)

Drive high-profile campaigns and gain hands-on experience with influential clients in the consumer entertainment space.

Premier is Europe’s leading specialist integrated agency for entertainment, arts and culture.

For more than 20 years our business has used its unrivalled influence, creativity, and network to help its clients across TV, film, gaming, theatre, sport, live events and music bring fans closer to the things they love. Our client roster is a who’s who of the most influential businesses in entertainment and includes Activision, Amazon, Disney, EA, Fender, Live Nation, Netflix, Paramount, Sky, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros. 

We are looking for an account manager to join the Premier Brands team, which operates within the wider Consumer Entertainment Department (gaming, music, sports, brands). Reporting directly to the division lead, they will be part of a growing team, have the opportunity to line manage and also have significant potential for growth. 

The candidate will play an important role within the team across a broad range of activities, promoting our clients to the right audiences with campaigns that stand out and make a difference, winning new business and representing the Brands department internally and externally.

They will also have an opportunity to support wider agency activities such as film premieres and screenings. Experience in food and beverage is a bonus, but absolutely not essential.

Key tasks 

Client servicing 

• Take the lead in ensuring processes are followed, driving the client planning process and the delivery of plans as needed, while providing support to the senior team when necessary
• Ensure we are always delivering best-in-class consultancy to clients
• Build and maintain excellent client relationships 
• Acquire and maintain a detailed knowledge of all the accounts you are across 
• Work alongside department head and other department leads to deliver outstanding pitch work
• Be aware of and share new trends within popular culture and wider consumer communications to inform client recommendations 
• Advise on the best tools to be using to deliver first-class campaigns

Internal

• Have an excellent, strategic understanding of the media and influencer marketing 
• Maintain and grow your network of media and influencer contacts
• Support the junior team and oversee the quality of work delivered internally and for client approval (e.g. press releases, proposals, reports), requiring minimal input from senior team)
• Support the department in ensuring your line managees have set goals and are delivering against them 
• Raise the profile of the Brands team in the industry by regular attendance at group events or presentations and integration with the wider Consumer Entertainment Department

Financial 

• Initiate new business contacts and play a part in developing new business proposals
• Seek out and identify additional revenue opportunities from existing clients
• Manage campaign budgets, ensuring they come in on target and costs are logged correctly

Company-wide

• Follow all house systems and styles
• Contribute to the growth and culture of the company by showing an active interest in other departments and encouraging your teams to do the same. 
• Ensure you are fully competent and trained on all the tools used by the team 

The employer reserves the right to close the listing and stop accepting applications sooner than the original deadline. Therefore we strongly recommend applying at the earliest opportunity.

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries. 

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.