Senior Account Manager (London)
The Role
Senior Account Manager
Job Description
Seven League is looking for a Senior Account Manager to work on an array of prestigious clients in the sporting world. This is a full-time position with a three month probation period. Seven League has a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer.
To apply, please send your CV to jobs@sevenleague.co.uk
Title: Senior Account Manager
Reporting to: Consulting Partner
We are looking for a passionate, hard-working and capable person to join us as a Senior Account Manager.
This role will be wide-ranging and the candidate will need to react to the needs of the business and its clients – it may include tasks such as managing social media managers or writing and presenting digital strategies or briefing digital content production as well as working directly with our clients on a daily basis. It is possible that this person may be embedded with a client on behalf of Seven League as part of the role.
The right individual for this role will have a broad range of skills and will be looking for a varied role in which they will be challenged and grow rapidly by rising to those challenges. This individual will be a motivated self-starter with a high work-rate and a thirst for knowledge.
Responsibilities would include a mix of the following:
- Presenting ideas, campaigns and strategies to clients of all levels
- Managing content production including working with graphic designers and video editors
- Briefing and managing social media community managers in multiple countries
- Social media and website content planning and evaluation including KPI tracking
- Creation of digital strategies based on solid analysis that transform sports organisations
- Determining and clarifying strategic and operational problems via consultation (e.g. running interviews and workshops)
- Analysing and interpreting research and stats to detect trends and create strategic and operational recommendations
- Identification of revenue growth, customer acquisition and retention opportunities and delivery of relevant recommendations
- Resource planning, project management and milestone tracking
- The creation of marketing campaigns including planning, basic SEO, asset production and paid media advertising (Facebook, Twitter and Google)
- Writing reports
- Understanding the latest digital trends, and reporting this back to the wider team and clients
- Working with all other personnel to develop and achieve the company’s overall strategic goals
- Contributing to business development of new and existing clients
- Being an ambassador for Seven League and the Mailman group, maintaining a professional approach at all times
Requirements
The Candidate
The ideal candidate will possess a good combination of the following skills and attributes:
1. Solid experience in digital content, social media, marketing or commercial roles
2. A keen understanding of digital technologies, social media platforms, websites, apps and content production
3. Technically savvy and passionate about the latest digital trends and developments
4. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
5. Excellent client facing skills or experience of working with a wide range of senior stakeholders within an organisation
6. A passion for sport and its ability to positively impact society
Personal skills, education and training
Essential
· Five years’ experience of digital (content, social media, marketing, commercial)
· Significant social media and/or website experience in a professional capacity with keen insight into best practice for businesses and brands
· Experience of content planning, production and publishing
· Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal including strong presentation skills
· Highly numerate with good experience of using spreadsheets to understand and manipulate data
· Advanced user of Microsoft Office, in particular statistical manipulation in Excel and creating PowerPoint presentations
· Organised and an ability to meet fixed deadlines
· A commitment to continual professional development of oneself and others
Desirable
Experience using analytics platforms (Google, Facebook, Twitter)
Experience of running social media channels or websites
Understanding of marketing: research, campaign planning, audience segmentation, profiling and content targeting
Experience, or a solid understanding, of Twitch as a platform
Knowledge of Photoshop and/or video editing software
· Good understanding of the techniques of SEO and SEM
· Commercial sports rights experience for example valuing assets, selling rights or digital sponsorships
· Experience working in other markets specifically within Europe, the US and Asia
Personal
· Comfortable under pressure (presenting, running workshops, giving clients feedback etc.)
· Excellent administrative and organisational skills with the ability to prioritise, manage budgets and meet deadlines
· Demonstrable ability to learn new skills with a readiness to share those skills among other members of the team
· Strong initiative with a 'can do' attitude and willingness to be flexible in approach to achieve desired outcomes
· Enthusiasm for the opportunities presented by digital technology
· Hard working, flexible and adaptable (sport, and therefore our work, often takes place at the weekend)
· Strong initiative with a 'can do' attitude
· Customer or client focused approach
· A passion for digital culture and sport
Accounts
Working with leading global sports brands
Benefits
The Package
Salary: Commensurate based on experience
Holiday: 20 days (increasing by one day per year of service, to maximum 25 days)
Other benefits:
- Half mobile phone-bill paid
- Full home broadband bill paid
- Tax-free cycle scheme
- Performance and salary review once a year
- Being in a challenging and high profile company with a great and growing reputation
- Working with leading global sports brands including the NBA, FIFA, NFL, UEFA, England Netball and several Premier League clubs