Senior Account Manager

1 Month ago • All levels • Account Management

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Account Manager, you will be a key figure in client relationships, guiding junior team members and contributing to strategic plan development. Your responsibilities include contributing to strategy development, preparing presentation decks, translating client briefs into internal briefs, liaising with specialists, collating media plans, and managing client interactions. You will be the main point of contact for clients, addressing their queries, providing weekly reports, managing the PCA process, and delivering updates. Additionally, you will share knowledge within the team and manage the finance process and invoices. The role requires strong digital media experience, data interpretation skills, and the ability to optimize paid activity to meet KPIs, along with strong presentation, client relationship-building, and project management skills. This role requires collaborative work and giving/taking direction.
Must have:
  • Strong knowledge of digital specialist areas
  • Interpret data and performance into recommendations
  • Write clear and detailed briefs
  • Project management of internal briefs
  • Client focused and build relationships
Good to have:
  • Excel and PowerPoint skills
  • Comfortable with data insights
  • Commercial understanding
Perks:
  • Collaborative work environment with growth
  • Work with diverse clients
  • Competitive salaries and benefits
  • Free fresh fruit and subsidized barista service
  • Support a work-life balance

Job Details

The purpose of this roles is to support the Client Director in delivery on the account, managing the capabilities and team to ensure on-time delivery and excellence in execution. This is a key role in driving collaboration internally and externally with the client and partners.

Job Description:

The Role

As the Senior Account Manager, play a leading role in your client's day to day relationships, guiding junior team members. You will own the development of implementation planning across Dentsu and contribute to the development of strategic plans.

What you'll do

  • Contribute to strategy development. Providing relevant data and insights from agency, industry and client sources

  • For some clients, take ownership of presentation decks and ensure all Dentsu contributions ladder up to the overall message and are consistent

  • Receive client briefs and translate client brief into detailed internal brief (using CCS Planner) which is used to brief all DAN specialist areas: AV, Offline, Display, Paid Social, PPC, Partnership's clients are meeting their profitability targets

  • Be the main contact with specialists as they ask questions around the brief

  • Collate the specialist media plans into an overall composite plan with accompanying rationale (client presentation if relevant)

  • Liaise with all specialists to ensure all media plans are accurate

  • For some clients, oversee any changes of strategy and media plan between client and specialists

Client Management

  • Be the main day to day point of contact for clients and have the ability to understand client requirements, assess if it is within scope (liaising with BD if required), and decide the most effective way to answer the question

  • Be able to answer client questions on all specialist areas (PPC, Display, Paid Social, AV, Partnerships) and only involve specialists with clients when there is a real need to do so

  • Manage and provide weekly reporting for client, with ability to translate performance results into actionable insights, whilst investigating and adapting plans based on results

  • Manage PCA process – build out structure and brief your team and specialists on the requirements – be responsible for identify the key learnings

  • Deliver client updates, market updates and competitive insights

  • Ensure that MX codes have been set up and follow the naming and structure conventions. Ensure all are communicated to relevant specialists, including relevant PO numbers

Team

  • Share knowledge and skill set with wider team

  • Ensure that the AEs are skilled up and supporting with training as required

Operational Finance

  • Manage finance process across relevant accounts

  • Ensure accurate and timely invoicing to our clients

  • Ensure media plans match MX and invoices are accurate

  • Assist central finance team by working with clients to resolve late payment

Skills & Experience

  • Strong knowledge of the specialist areas within,  particularly digital channels

  • Strong Digital Media experience with a good understanding of offline media, and how they work together

  • Ability to interpret data and performance results into actionable recommendations. Strong measurement capabilities including ability to use and garner insights from GA4, DCM and other paid media tools such as Business Managers

  • Continually optimise paid activity to ensure campaigns meet KPIs and targets

  • The ability to write a clear and detailed brief

  • Ability to project manage as internal briefs move through the organisation

  • Be a confident presenter

  • Be client focused and build relationships

  • Bring strategic rigour and viewpoint

  • Ability to sell ideas and approaches to clients

  • Strong Excel skills & PowerPoint skills

  • Great attention to detail

  • Comfortable with data and have the ability to pull out relevant insights

  • Quality decision making

  • Commercial understanding

  • Experience of being primary contact on client accounts

  • Strong digital experience

  • To be able to work collaboratively and to take and give direction as required

  • Some experience of managing others

  • Broad media knowledge

  • Experience managing planning processes across multiple media 

What we'll give to you

  • A collaborative and fast-paced work environment with opportunities for growth

  • The opportunity to work with diverse clients across various industries

  • We offer competitive salaries and benefits including pension plans, income protection, life assurance, discounted healthcare and travel insurance

  • You’ll enjoy lots of cool perks including free fresh fruit delivered daily along with a fully subsidised barista service

  • We strongly support a work-life balance and encourage agile and flexible working across the business

  • Our working parents are eligible for paid family friendly leave once they are with us more than a year and we offer a phased return to work to support their return

  • You always get your birthday off, company closure days at Christmas and Easter and we also have Wellness and Charity Days!

Diversity & Inclusion

Taking a people-centred approach to business transformation, we use insights to connect brand, content, commerce and experience, underpinned by modern creativity. As part of Dentsu Group Inc. we are headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and our 65,000 employee-base of dedicated professionals work across four regions (Japan, Americas, EMEA and APAC). Dentsu combines Japanese innovation with a diverse, global perspective to drive client growth and to shape society.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion sits at the heart of our Social Impact strategy – our fully integrated sustainability strategy which includes our ambition to build a fair and more equal society, where everyone is equipped to thrive.

#LI-Hybrid

Location:

Dublin

Brand:

Iprospect

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)

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