Account Manager

🔍 Client Manager 📍 Location: Leeds (Hybrid) 💷 Salary: £32,000–£35,000 🌟 Level: Client Manager 🏢 Agency: Shopper Marketing / Integrated Marketing 🚀 About the Role We're working with a brilliant shopper marketing agency that's growing its Client Services team and looking for a talented Client Manager to join them in Leeds. This is a fantastic opportunity to work with some major global brands, managing a mix of strategic, corporate and creative projects. You'll take ownership of 2–3 client accounts, working on everything from global retail strategy and research-led projects to content delivery and faster-paced marketing campaigns. It's a role with plenty of variety, but one thing is particularly important: you'll need to be an exceptional project manager. Someone who can take a complicated brief, bring clarity to it and keep everyone moving in the right direction. 🎯 What You'll Be Doing ✅ Taking ownership of 2–3 client accounts, building strong relationships and becoming their trusted day-to-day contact. ✅ Leading a variety of global and corporate projects, from retail strategy and research-led work to complex content delivery. ✅ Managing multiple workstreams, timelines and stakeholders, making sure projects run smoothly from brief to delivery. ✅ Working closely with creative, strategy and content teams to turn complex client challenges into clear plans and brilliant work. ✅ Bringing structure to complicated projects, managing client-supplied content, approvals and deliverables with exceptional attention to detail. ✅ Managing budgets, project scopes and deadlines, anticipating challenges and keeping everyone informed. ✅ Getting involved in the occasional faster-paced FMCG and shopper marketing project, bringing plenty of variety to your role. 🌟 What You'll Bring ✅ At least 2 years' agency experience, with some solid client and project management experience under your belt. ✅ Exceptional project management and organisational skills. You'll be someone who can juggle multiple projects, bring structure to complexity and keep all the plates spinning. ✅ A strategic mindset. You'll understand the bigger picture, ask the right questions and be confident challenging a brief when needed. ✅ Brilliant communication skills and the confidence to build relationships with clients and internal teams at different levels. ✅ Experience managing creative or content projects, with great attention to detail and an understanding of budgets. ✅ The ability to understand research and insights, and how they can inform marketing strategy and recommendations. ✅ A curious, proactive attitude, plenty of initiative, commercial awareness and a genuine desire to develop. ⭐ Bonus Points ⭐ Experience working on global or corporate accounts. ⭐ A background in shopper marketing, FMCG or integrated marketing. ⭐ Experience managing complex projects involving multiple stakeholders, markets or large volumes of content. Importantly, you don't need to come from a shopper marketing background. Strong agency experience, strategic thinking and exceptional project management skills are what really matter here. 🎁 Why Join? 🌍 Big-name clients: Work with major international brands on interesting, varied projects. 🚀 Real responsibility: Take ownership of your accounts and play an important role in delivering great work. 🧠 More than just account management: Get involved in strategic thinking, research and solving complex business challenges. 🎨 Plenty of variety: From global corporate projects to faster-paced creative campaigns, there's always something different happening. 📈 Opportunity to develop: Join an ambitious agency where curiosity, initiative and a willingness to learn are genuinely valued. 🤝 Great people: Be part of a collaborative, supportive team that takes pride in doing brilliant work and building lasting client relationships. 🏡 Hybrid working: Enjoy the flexibility of hybrid working from the Leeds office. 🌟 Sound Like Your Kind of Role? You don't need to have worked in shopper marketing before. If you've got strong agency experience, a strategic brain and exceptional project management skills, we'd love to have a chat. Apply today!