- Job Title: Senior Client Manager
- Level & Responsibility: This role is at a Senior Manager level and has responsibility for a portfolio of clients and managing a team
- Salary: £48,000+ per annum, depending on experience, and a 10% discretionary bonus
- Location & Hybrid Working: Bradford, a minimum of 2 days in the office per week
The role
Join our team as a Senior Client Manager for our exciting partnership with Morrisons! As part of the Morrisons Media Group, you'll spearhead efforts to connect their brands with a vast shopper base. Dive into a dynamic role where you'll oversee client portfolios and FMCG brands, leading campaigns from strategy to evaluation. Ready to make an impact in a fast-paced environment? Apply now!
Why SMG?
We are dedicated to supporting our employees to be the best version of themselves both inside and outside of work. We have an extraordinary culture built by exceptional people and it's because of this that we've been recognised by Best Companies within the top 5 best Marketing & Media agencies to work for, with a World Class and Outstanding accreditation across the past 2 years.
We are also dedicated to continuously reviewing and improving our benefits package to offer the best that we can for our people. Here's some of our favourites...
?? Generous discretionary bonus scheme
????? £1,800 yearly wellbeing fund (on top of your salary!) towards your personal wellbeing and passions
?? 4 additional Wellbeing Days - one to be taken each quarter, dedicated to focusing on your wellbeing
?? £500 yearly "Uni Fund" towards learning and development
�? Free headspace subscription
?? 4pm Friday finishes all year round
?? Two fully paid conferences a year at Summer & Winter, as well as a dedicated team that put on activities and celebrations throughout the year
Why you?
In line with our company values, within your role, you'll want to stay honest, stay hungry, stay foolish, and most importantly, have fun! More specifically, you'll have / be:
- Great organisational skills with excellent attention to detail.
- Exceptional leadership qualities, with proven experience of people coaching and management.
- Experience of working towards ambitious targets, with a strong numeracy and data reading abilities.
- Strong presentation skills.
- Proficient in the use of Excel, Google Analytics and Power Point.
- A proven track record in the development and planning of strategic marketing campaigns, which delivered positive results.
- Exceptional communication and relationship skills to confidently work with senior stakeholders and external clients.
- The ability to "think differently": As one of our key behaviours here at SMG, you won't be afraid to approach problems from a different angle or challenge the status quo.
What you'll be doing
We pride ourselves on creating challenging and exciting opportunities, meaning that no two days are the same. However, here's an idea of what your responsibilities will look like:
- Develop proposals and strategies based on supplier budgets and objectives to create cohesive media plan that will deliver against KPIs.
- Liaise with a variety of internal and external stakeholders to activate FMCG branded activity across a range of channels, including on and offsite media within agreed timelines, following creative guidelines.
- Ownership of driving commercials for the categories under your remit to help contribute towards wider business targets, seeking our investment opportunities, managing forecasts and reporting on these.
- Line management of direct reports, holding weekly meetings with these, creating workplans, hosting appraisals and tracking their day-to-day output and progression. This will be in addition to providing daily support as and when required.
- Work to ensure all content (including but not limited to media plans, status reports, performance reviews and recommendations) are completed to a high standard, showcasing the team at its best.
- Build positive relationships and communicate confidently with our clients, nuancing your approach with different stakeholders and ensure you present yourself as a trusted and senior member of the team.
- Support wider organisational projects, helping to create a great workplace and supporting with SMG's mission to lead connected commerce marketing.
- Support the senior leadership team in governance, ad hoc requests and meetings as required.
P.s. we try really hard to make sure that we list only essential criteria here, BUT if you think you can do an amazing job, yet don't have every single thing on this list, we'd still love to hear from you.