The role

We’re looking for a strong Senior Account Manager who is passionate about brand & communications and keen to be part of an agency and team with ambitious ideas.

Working as a core part of the cross-functional team, you’ll be one of the main point of contact for one of our Global clients. Working closely with the Senior Account Director, you’ll be looking after Brand & Retail campaigns (including big shoots for multiple countries) and delivering toolkits that can be used by global markets.

The successful candidate will report directly into a Senior Account Director and work alongside all departments within the agency such as Creative and Strategy.

What you'll be doing

On a day to day, you will…

• Be one of the main client point of contact for campaigns.
• Working with key clients you will understand and interpret their brief, challenging the ask when necessary to ensure Wunderman Thompson are always delivering the best solution, pulling in other members of the Wunderman Thompson team as and when required
• Writing and contributing to briefs, as well as interpreting information and developing insights to assist in the planning/creative process
• You’ll be presenting creative work to clients, taking and challenging feedback when necessary
• Working closely with the finance teams ensuring projects are delivered within budget, as well as supporting with end of month invoicing
• Maintaining essential team administration, such as holiday charts and status reports, as well as working closely to the Senior Project Manager on the account

Who we are looking for

• We’re looking for an experienced Senior Account Manager, who will be coming from a brand and retail communications background.
• You thrive in a complex stakeholder management environment and are comfortable juggling multiple workstreams as being flexible to adapt to shifting needs of clients.
• You will also have experience developing strong creative campaign work and will have worked with large, teams. Also, attention to detail is crucial to be successful in this role.

What we can offer you

We don’t settle for people who can just do the job, we look for people that go beyond that and always push our thinking to be better than yesterday. We believe that this is what makes our agency a great place to be – a space where you’re never far away from the best minds to learn from.

We want you to be comfortable and proud every day of the week and have created an open and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. We don’t want you to just fit into our culture, we want your uniqueness and diversity of background to add to it and make this an agency where we all have a real sense of belonging and purpose. We are a community. 

Our focus is on keeping teams connected and engaged whether we're in the office or working from home, putting people’s wellbeing first, ensuring every person has access to our learning and development programme and building an inclusive workplace. We have a weekly ‘Staying Connected Calendar’ which is full to the brim of training you can get involved in, inspiration sessions hosted by external partners to check out and wellbeing classes and tips and tricks to look after your mind, body and soul. From yoga, Pilates, HIIT, hypnotherapy, a Strava cycling group, 1:1 resilience sessions and trained mental health first aiders. To name a few. Within our office we have a dedicated wellness studio and this year we built a brand new learning lab. Here we host weekly lunchtime lessons that supports iLearn, our learning & development portal home to 100s of sessions for you to access. We're also committed to building an inclusive, equitable and diverse workforce driven by our Inclusion Council and Employee Resource Groups; Rise, Unite, Re:think, Roots, Wellbeing and Access all Areas.

Your career development is important to us. Thrive will provide you with the framework and support needed to reach your career aspirations. There really is no shortage of opportunities here for the right person that is prepared to roll their sleeves up, get involved and collaborate with those around them to deliver the best work for our clients and our agency.