Senior Client Manager - Packaging
Location: Leeds
Company: Our client is a well-established brand design agency working with major FMCG clients, and growing.
To help build deeper client relationships and bring in new business, we are looking for a senior account management professional to take ownership of client success and agency growth.
This is a hybrid role sitting at the intersection of client services and new business — ideal for someone who's equally comfortable nurturing long-term client relationships and developing fresh opportunities.
Role:
Client Management & Growth
* Serve as the primary point of contact for key accounts, building trusted, strategic relationships with senior client stakeholders
* Proactively identify opportunities to grow existing accounts through additional or expanded scopes of work
* Lead client onboarding, briefing, and ongoing communication to ensure a consistently excellent experience
* Work closely with the creative team to keep projects aligned with client goals, timelines, and budgets
New Business
* Support the agency owner in identifying, pursuing, and converting new business leads
* Help develop credentials, proposals, and pitch materials
* Represent the agency at networking events, introductory meetings, and prospect conversations
* Contribute to shaping the agency's positioning and how we talk about ourselves in market
Strategy & Operations
* Maintain visibility over the client pipeline and account health across the portfolio
* Feed client and market insights back into the agency to inform positioning and service development
* Help build the processes and tools that support a more scalable, structured approach to client management
Requirements:
* Experience working within a packaging agency
* Proven experience in account management or client services, ideally within a design, creative, or brand agency environment
* A natural relationship-builder with strong commercial instincts and a talent for negotiation
* Confident communicator — able to translate creative work into business value for clients
* Self-starter who can operate with autonomy in a small, fast-moving team
* Some exposure to new business development is a strong advantage
Apply:
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Key words; Account Director / Client Manager / Senior Account Director / Senior Client Manager / New Business Development Manager / Business Development Manager / Client Director/ Client Delight Manager / Client Delight Director / Packaging / Branding / FMCG / Print / Design