We are looking for a highly motivated Account Manager to join Brands2Life’s Corporate Affairs & Responsible Business team – someone who thrives on leading high-impact briefs that positively transform our world and protect clients’ reputations.
We are a dynamic and creative team, focused on delivering first-class corporate, sustainability and public affairs advisory to clients. We create, we campaign, we counsel, we connect. From reimagining corporate strategies through to demonstrating valuable environmental and societal impact, we deliver the stakeholder confidence required to propel organisations forward. Clients include listed businesses such as Avery Dennison, Booking.com, and Eaton, renowned multinationals like Arup and Tetra Pak, alongside tech pioneers such as Adyen and SITA.
Following a series of exciting client wins, we are looking to appoint an Account Manager who will support us in our next phase of growth. This is a pivotal opportunity to become part of a talented, ambitious team responsible for building corporate brands, delivering high-impact campaigns and protecting reputations when the stakes are high.
As an Account Manager, you will play a critical role in delivering strategic programmes, deepening client relationships, and guiding and mentoring your teams. You will work across a range of industries, acting as a key point of contact for clients, applying your brilliant attention to detail to narratives, content and campaigns that influence multi-stakeholder audiences.
Your core responsibilities will include:
Account ownership
* Play a pivotal role in in the day-to-day managing of accounts, helping to deliver seamless campaign and press office activity from planning to execution.
* Develop a deep understanding of clients’ businesses and communications goals, contributing to strategic planning and delivering measurable outcomes.
* Build strong, trusting relationships with clients, providing regular updates, strategic counsel, and consistently high-quality work.
* Act as the central point of coordination for account delivery, tracking tasks, timelines and team responsibilities to ensure work is completed on time and to brief.
* Leading day-to-day on integrated ways of working across the team and agency to bring tailored solutions to client challenges.
Media and stakeholder engagement
* Build and maintain strong relationships with senior journalists and opinion-leaders.
* Work with AEs and your ADs to support Brands2Life’s ‘meet the media’ programme, to deepen journalist relations across the team.
* Lead media relations activity, drawing upon your experience to craft the perfect pitch and applying your media know-how to execute sell-ins that land impactful coverage.
* Drive strategic storytelling across key accounts.
Team development
* Provide mentorship and hands-on support to Account Executives, not only to deliver the job in hand but to support your colleagues as they grow and learn.
* Play a supportive role in nurturing talent within the team: supporting career development, offering constructive feedback, and contributing to a positive team culture, aligned with Brands2Life’s values.
* Manage up as well as down to support key agency initiatives across the practice and bring outside knowledge and insights into the team.
Content creation & thought leadership
* Produce high-quality written content across opinion articles, media materials and digital copy, ensuring it aligns with brief, tone of voice and client objectives.
* Help shape messaging frameworks, narratives and executive visibility programmes.
* Take part in creative brainstorms and contribute to campaign innovation and cross-functional planning.
New business & agency growth
* Support on elements of new business activity, contributing ideas and participating in pitches.
* Identify and support on organic growth opportunities within your accounts.
You’ll have a keen eye for detail, brilliant organisation, ability to lead projects from start to finish, and be passionate about what you do. If that’s you, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Why Brands2Life?
All employees at Brands2Life enjoy a supportive, forward-thinking working environment, alongside excellent long-term career opportunities and highly competitive range of benefits. We offer regular internal and external training (at all levels), 360 reviews, personal development plans, health and dental insurance, flexible working, and plenty of company socials. As well as all of that, we offer a two-month sabbatical after four years (paid!).
As of December 2023, Brands2Life has been part of the Paritee agency platform, a new kind of network that combines the best of large agency thinking and entrepreneurial excellence. Paritee has a vision to create a new breed of agency network and model for collaboration, one that brings together ‘National Champion’ agencies in each key market and enables them to co-operate for mutual benefit and to provide clients with world-class services and advice, based on deep sector insight.
We’re proud to share that Brands2Life was recently named PRWeek's Large Consultancy of the Year, a recognition that reflects the strength of our work, our people, and the impact we deliver for clients. It’s an exciting time to join us as we continue to grow and take on new challenges!
*Brands2Life is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all backgrounds. We believe a diverse and inclusive workforce enhances our ability to be creative, innovative and entrepreneurial. We do not discriminate against applicants or employees because of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status or citizenship status.