Account Manager

🔍 Client Manager

📍 Location: Leeds (Hybrid)

💷 Salary: £32,000–£35,000

🌟 Level: Client Manager

🏢 Agency: Shopper Marketing / Integrated Marketing

🚀 About the Role

We're working with a brilliant shopper marketing agency that's growing its Client Services team and looking for a talented Client Manager to join them in Leeds.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work with some major global brands, managing a mix of strategic, corporate and creative projects .

You'll take ownership of 2–3 client accounts, working on everything from global retail strategy and research-led projects to content delivery and faster-paced marketing campaigns.

It's a role with plenty of variety, but one thing is particularly important: you'll need to be an exceptional project manager. Someone who can take a complicated brief, bring clarity to it and keep everyone moving in the right direction.

If you're a strategic thinker, a brilliant organiser and someone who enjoys building great client relationships, we'd love to hear from you.

🎯 What You'll Be Doing

✅ Taking ownership of 2–3 client accounts, building strong relationships and becoming their trusted day-to-day contact.

✅ Leading a variety of global and corporate projects, from retail strategy and research-led work to complex content delivery.

✅ Managing multiple workstreams, timelines and stakeholders, making sure projects run smoothly from brief to delivery.

✅ Working closely with creative, strategy and content teams to turn complex client challenges into clear plans and brilliant work.

✅ Bringing structure to complicated projects, managing client-supplied content, approvals and deliverables with exceptional attention to detail.

✅ Managing budgets, project scopes and deadlines, anticipating challenges and keeping everyone informed.

✅ Getting involved in the occasional faster-paced FMCG and shopper marketing project, bringing plenty of variety to your role.

🌟 What You'll Bring

✅ At least 2 years' agency experience, with some solid client and project management experience under your belt.

✅ Exceptional project management and organisational skill s. You'll be someone who can juggle multiple projects, bring structure to complexity and keep all the plates spinning.

✅ A strategic mindset. You'll understand the bigger picture, ask the right questions and be confident challenging a brief when needed.

✅ Brilliant communication skills and the confidence to build relationships with clients and internal teams at different levels.

✅ Experience managing creative or content projects, with great attention to detail and an understanding of budgets.

✅ The ability to understand research and insights, and how they can inform marketing strategy and recommendations.

✅ A curious, proactive attitude, plenty of initiative, commercial awareness and a genuine desire to develop.

⭐ Bonus Points

⭐ Experience working on global or corporate accounts.

⭐ A background in shopper marketing, FMCG or integrated marketing.

⭐ Experience managing complex projects involving multiple stakeholders, markets or large volumes of content.

Importantly, you don't need to come from a shopper marketing background. Strong agency experience, strategic thinking and exceptional project management skills are what really matter here.

🎁 Why Join?

🌍 Big-name clients: Work with major international brands on interesting, varied projects.

🚀 Real responsibility: Take ownership of your accounts and play an important role in delivering great work.

🧠 More than just account management: Get involved in strategic thinking, research and solving complex business challenges.

🎨 Plenty of variety: From global corporate projects to faster-paced creative campaigns, there's always something different happening.

📈 Opportunity to develop: Join an ambitious agency where curiosity, initiative and a willingness to learn are genuinely valued.

🤝 Great people: Be part of a collaborative, supportive team that takes pride in doing brilliant work and building lasting client relationships.

🏡 Hybrid working: Enjoy the flexibility of hybrid working from the Leeds office.

🌟 Sound Like Your Kind of Role?

If you're an ambitious agency Client Manager who enjoys the challenge of juggling projects, building great relationships and delivering work that makes a difference, we'd love to hear from you.

You don't need to have worked in shopper marketing before. If you've got strong agency experience, a strategic brain and exceptional project management skills, we'd love to have a chat.

Apply today!