Account Manager – Direct Mail

Our client is a dynamic direct marketing agency specialising in campaign strategy and execution. They work with a wide variety of clients to provide exciting, highly targeted and effective communications.

An opening has arisen within their account management team. They are looking for an account manager with a flair for client communication and understand consumer behaviour. Your role will be to provide high level, proactive, helpful and value added client service and account management through the organisation of all relevant creative, print, production and postage services.

Responsible for managing an array of accounts and working as part of a team providing efficient end-to-end project management for print / mailing services, your responsibilities will include the following:

• Manage several accounts and often being the face of the company to many clients
• Prepare client quotes and invoices, checking supplier quotes, preparing purchase orders and ensuring profitability of each job
• Briefing external suppliers, from artwork, data and print through to fulfilment and postage
• Checking all information thoroughly and proof reading accurately
• Suggesting new formats and feeding back on suggestions for improvements both to clients and the Client Services team
• Manage & coordinate the delivery of existing client direct marketing activity to agreed budget and timescales
• Develops and maintains long-term relationships with accounts, clients and suppliers
• Be happy to roll up your sleeves and stay hands-on

One of the accounts is purely postage therefore candidates must have solid postage knowledge to apply for this role. Additional necessary skills and attributes include:

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with aptitude in building relationships with professionals of all organizational levels
• Organised and able to prioritise work load
• Proactive and self-motivated
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong numeracy skills, ability to understand data and briefs
• Good natured and considerate
• Attention to detail
• Ability to actively participate in brainstorms and to accurately record ideas generated
• Good use and knowledge of Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point
• Ability to stay calm under pressure!

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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 – greg@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head of Print recruitment–Neil Pearson – neil@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head Paper recruitment – Gary Young – gary@harrison-scott.co.uk

Board level, account management and all levels of sales vacancies –

George Thompson – george@harrison-scott.co.uk

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.