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Creative team account manager

Edinburgh
M&G
Account manager
Posted: 23 March
Offer description

Our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions.

Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.

Through telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.

We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer work place accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.

Creative Team Account Manager

To act as the central coordinator for all creative and brand work entering the Creative Services function. This role ensures every brief is insight-led, clearly defined, logically prioritised, and resourced efficiently. The Account Manager provides operational discipline, enabling the team to deliver high-quality, compliant creative output that aligns with Life Marketing’s strategic objectives and campaign roadmap.


Key Responsibilities (Strategic & Operational):

1. Manage the full intake lifecycle — from initial request through scoping, clarification, alignment, and approval

2. Challenge and refine briefs to ensure clarity of objectives, target audience, insight, mandatories, channels, timelines, and success metrics

3. Operate as the primary point of contact for Marketing stakeholders, gathering requirements and translating them into actionable work packages

4. Create structured workback schedules, identifying dependencies, risks, and cross-functional touchpoints (Brand, Compliance, Planning & Effectiveness)

5. Run weekly demand planning sessions with Creative Delivery Manager to balance capacity and prioritise against strategic needs

6. Maintain a centralised creative pipeline including SLAs, lead times, status, ownership, and blockers

7. Ensure all briefs meet quality standards and contain required inputs for the Brand and Creative Lead as well as the Designers to deliver high-quality output

8. Partner with Compliance to ensure all required regulatory inputs are captured early, and timelines reflect review cycles

9. Provide proactive communication to stakeholders including status reports, timeline updates, agreed actions, and scope changes

10. Facilitate post-delivery reviews, capturing learnings, performance insights, and opportunities for workflow optimisation

Knowledge & Skills

11. Strong project and workflow management, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams

12. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, able to influence and challenge constructively

13. Deep understanding of creative processes, campaign planning cycles, production workflows, and approvals

14. Ability to interpret marketing objectives and translate them into structured briefs

15. Proficiency with workflow/PM tools (e.g., Trello, Asana, Jira, Aprimo, Workfront — depending on M&G stack)

16. Strong analytical mindset to evaluate capacity, SLAs, and pipeline performance

Experience

17. Experience in marketing operations, creative workflow management, or account/project management

18. Background in managing creative, design, or brand delivery workflows preferred

19. Experience coordinating cross-functional marketing teams in a structured environment

20. Evidence of improving processes, SLAs, and stakeholder communication

Key Stakeholders

21. Life Marketing Leads

22. Planning & Effectiveness

23. Creative Services Team

24. Compliance

25. Brand Team

26. External Agencies

KPIs

27. SLA adherence across all request types

28. Quality and completeness score of briefs

29. Reduction in rework and late-stage amends

30. Timeliness of delivery against agreed schedules

31. Stakeholder satisfaction and feedback

32. Predictability and stability of the creative pipeline

Location: Stirling or Edinburgh

Work Level: Experienced Colleague

Recruiter: Amy Curtis

Closing Date: 25th May 2026

What we offer:

At M&G, we’re committed to helping you thrive and supporting your wellbeing, both at work and beyond. Our benefits are designed to help you balance your professional and personal life, while planning confidently for your future. Our UK benefits include:

33. As a savings and Investments firm we are proud to offer a valuable pension scheme of 18%, with 13% made up of Employer Contributions and 5% Employee Contributions.We also offer Share Save and our Share Incentive Plan, together with access to financial wellbeing and support services - to help give you real confidence to put your money to work.

34. Enjoy 38 days annual leave including bank holidays, with the opportunity to purchase up to 5 extra days and additional flexibility through our Time Off When You Need It policy – to balance your work and personal commitments.

35. Our market leading Inspiring Families policy includes comprehensive support and paid parental leave covering maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave - as supporting families is a core aspect of our inclusive culture.

36. Health & Protection cover including Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with family options - for peace of mind.

To explore more about life at M&G and our full benefits offering, visit

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities, advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or long term condition, we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.

M&G is also proud to be a, and we welcome applications from candidates with long-term health conditions, disabilities, or neuro-divergent conditions.

If you need assistance or an alternative means of applying for a role due to a disability or additional need, please let us know by contacting us at:

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