Account Manager – Maternity Cover

Job Description:

Introduction

Dentsu is the network designed for what’s next, helping clients predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities and create new paths to growth in the sustainable economy. Taking a people-centered approach to business transformation, we use insights to connect brand, content, commerce and experience, underpinned by modern creativity.

The Story Lab is an important part of our world-class offering -It is a global investor, producer and distributor of premium entertainment content, headquartered in London with offices in 15 markets, including Los Angeles, Shanghai, Singapore, Paris, Madrid and Mumbai. Since 2015, The Story Lab has been distributing successful primetime TV shows and films while also delivering strategic content production, partnership and monetisation solutions to advertisers. The Story Lab is a dentsu company and it currently consists of 300 entertainment, marketing and investment professionals across the world.

We’re hiring for an Account Manager as part of The Story Lab in London to cover Maternity Leave.

Purpose of the Role

To support the Account Director in content planning and client management, to support on managing the Account Executives and monitor their workload, as well as help develop their skill sets. To lead their own identified client content solutions and deliver innovative, ambitious, integrated and ‘on-brief’ content solutions, sponsorships and partnerships. 

Key Responsibilities

• Working with the Creation Director to challenge client briefs, ensuring creative solutions key performance indicators are achievable
• Collaborating with the Creation Director to implement content solutions from conception to completion
• Liaising with Media Owners and third parties and builds trusted relationships with key stakeholders
• Project managing the team to deliver excellent execution of full creative content solutions campaigns
• Acting as a key contact for all stages of negotiations of a new project
• Delivering key creative thinking across all projects
• Acting as the ‘gatekeeper’ for quality control and the first port of call on day-to-day queries and questions and plan progress
• Coordinating invoicing and payment process as per contract and terms agreed
• Delivering presentations

Qualifications + Skills

• 2-3 years+ media experience, partnerships preferred
• Content creative solutions experience ideally in one or more media platforms
• Project management experience
• Commercial understanding and awareness
• Awareness of latest market developments and trends
• Some experience of training/mentoring others
• Experience of working with and managing clients
• Managing creative content RTB processes
• Understand fee structures and commercial terms

What we offer

• This is a maternity cover role – to start as soon as possible
• The teams are based in our London office and operate under flexible working arrangements
• As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

Inclusion and Diversity

Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their whole selves to work and be proud of doing so. For us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.

We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles – we can’t promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.

About dentsu

Taking a people-centered approach to business transformation, we use insights to connect brand, content, commerce and experience, underpinned by modern creativity. As part of Dentsu Group Inc. we are headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and our 65,000 employee-base of dedicated professionals work across four regions (Japan, Americas, EMEA and APAC). Dentsu combines Japanese innovation with a diverse, global perspective to drive client growth and to shape society.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion sits at the heart of our Social Impact strategy – our fully integrated sustainability strategy which includes our ambition to build a fair and more equal society, where everyone is equipped to thrive.

Location:

London

Brand:

Amplifi

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)

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