The Pharm (Ogilvy) - Freelance Account Manager / Senior Account Manager
Date Posted: Monday 7th August 2023
Date Expires: Friday 8th September 2023
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Role Summary
You will be an Account Manager or Senior Account Manager working on beauty brands within the No7 Beauty Company portfolio, including No7, Liz Earle, Soap & Glory, Botanics and Sleek. As part of WPP, Ogilvy is the agency of record for Walgreen Boots Alliance, and you will be part of a dedicated PR team of people across the business.
You must have experience in, and a passion for beauty PR, and have built up some strong media contacts in consumer press. You should be someone with strong organisational skills, with the ability to work closely with local PR and marketing clients to ensure the communication strategy aligns with each brand’s vision. You will be comfortable presenting to and building relationships with clients, with day-to-day contact including preparation for client review meetings and overseeing monthly reports, event debriefs and campaign reviews.
You should be confident at pitching in stories to key beauty editors and directors and able to secure coverage across a range of titles. You should also have a good understanding of the influencer landscape in beauty, health and wellness and have experience in both earned and paid influencer campaigns.
You will enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, be confident in juggling different projects, and managing different deadlines. You will also be comfortable with managing and overseeing account management duties such as evaluation and competitor reviews.
What you’ll bring to the role
- Day-to-day development and implementation of comms plans. Increasingly be able to see the work we do in its strategic context – how and why it answers a business problem and how it connects to the bigger picture
- Ability to build and create productive client relationships with junior and mid-level clients throughout the delivery of projects, clearly communicating and managing expectations throughout
- Be an efficient project manager. Have a solid understanding of process and proactively manage projects and comfortably take responsibility for successful delivery of the projects assigned to you, with light supervision
- Strong press relationships within the beauty and wellness space, including beauty editors and directors
- Strong awareness of the digital landscape, including knowledge of both emerging and established influencers, skin experts and makeup artists
- Knowledge of earned and paid influencer partnerships, with ability to ensure that content assets ladder back up to the brand’s strategic and creative vision
- Awareness of media landscape, competitor activity and market trends to inform future comms plan development
- Experience in managing the budget on your projects, working with client leads to manage costs and deliverables
- Proven ability to organise media and influencer events
- Proven ability to achieve strong and consistent press coverage, monitoring how results track against KPIs
- Experience in managing a wider team, using appropriate techniques to move others to action, adapting personal style as required
- Experience in proposal writing and presenting to clients
- Creative and proactive thinking to push the brand’s visibility
Business area: PR & Influence
Role: Freelance Account Manager / Senior Account Manager
Team: No7 Beauty Company
Location: London
Full Time/Part time: Full Time (2 days in our London office - Southbank)
Contract duration: Freelance. Term TBC
Reporting into: Business Director / Client Partner
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