Account Executive / Account Manager

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Account Executive / Account ManagerOur Client is an established marketing services company managing production, sourcing, distribution of print and digital communicationThe Account Executive will be part of our Client’s London team, which currently handles retail, pharmaceutical and healthcare brands in both the UK and Europe.They will also take responsibility for all of the production requirements of its affiliated content business.Main purpose of jobThe Account Executive will manage the production process for each project from start to finish, sourcing, delivering artwork, print production, and artwork approval process.The Executive will be responsible for customer service and product delivery through continual liaison with our clients, and suppliers on matters relating to print and campaign management. You will be required to build relationships with clients and manage their perceptions and expectations.Requests for quotations will be processed in a responsive manner and clients will be updated regularly on the progress of their work. He/she will select the most appropriate suppliers, negotiate costing and time-scales for each job and ensure that internal procedures are followed at all times.Key Responsibilities• Day to day responsibility for managing projects and accounts• Setting and managing project timelines• Monthly/Quarterly client meetings• Managing the print requirements for a portfolio of clients, mainly publishers and retailers• Maintain detailed job history information & monitoring of online activity/conversation• Print production planning and project management• Taking direction from client in order to brief and quote all print and POS requirements• Providing print and digital solutions through building client relationships and consultative selling• Purchasing and negotiating with external to ensure most competitive costs are achieved while ensuring delivery is on time, to spec, to quality and to contractual targets• Management of multiple stakeholders to ensure smooth project completion• Ensure all agreed procedures and processes are followed and that appropriate reporting is actioned for both the customer and internal/external departments• Maintain detailed job history information & monitoring of online activity/conversion• Providing bi-weekly account updates to senior management via team collaboration softwarePerson SpecificationTo be considered as a full time Account Executive our Client is looking for:• Minimum 2 Years’ experience working within a Print Management or Ad Agency environment• An assertive and competent individual, proficient in all microsoft office packages• Excellent client management skills face to face, telephone and email.• Strong project management skills• Excellent organisation skills with the ability to multi-task and work on their own initiative• Excellent attention to detail and problem solving ability.• UK resident***Please supply CV in word rather than PDF******This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a word document, depending on which sector you are in, to :-Head of Packaging recruitment – Greg Nelson – ##### of Print recruitment–Neil Pearson – ##### Paper recruitment – Gary Young – ##### level, account management and all levels of sales vacancies –Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector, for example a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management, in fact we have over 30 specialist categories. Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or contact you in the near future as soon a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.If you have registered with us and wish to use your existing details to apply for this vacancy please login here. If you would like to register with us please click here To apply for this vacancy fill in the form below. The following fields are required. Forename (required)
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Attach CV We prefer MS Word format (.doc or .docx)Being the largest recruitment company in print, packaging and paper we receive new vacancies on a daily basis. The software we use to "skill match" can "read" a word document but not a PDF. You will be considered for many more positions if your CV is in word format.The following section is OPTIONAL however if you have the time it would help tremendously in us matching you to over 300 positions (the average number we have at any one time). Current/Last Company Name
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