Senior Account Manager

Full Time
Amsterdam, Netherlands
6 months ago

We’re VaynerMedia! We are a contemporary global creative and media agency built for the now. Born in social, our work is now full service, simply loving big ideas that connect and create real change for our clients business. We are independently owned, founded in 2009 with offices in London, Amsterdam, New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Mexico City. We are recognised for our work in Cannes Lions, the Clios, D&AD and The Webbies to name a few. 

Culture is our key and Empathy is how we build it. VaynerMedia EMEA is strong with a world-class combination of diverse backgrounds collaborating to put forward innovative, creative and strategic solutions to the one advantage that stands the test of time – PEOPLE. Day in and day out, we propel some of the biggest brands in the world to the intersection of attention and culture. In EMEA, we are proudly 250+, servicing multi-brands across the region.

The PITCH.

We’re looking for a a driven and social-media savvy Senior Account Manager, who has always found non-traditional ways of solving problems, or grown tired of the way things have always been done, and is eager to join a place that’s obsessed with marketing like the year we actually live in to drive real business results.

  • Supporting the Account Director to deliver media, strategic, creative and production solutions.
  • Deliver both planned and reactive social media across the brand’s  social media channels.
  • Take ownership of your client relationship and social strategy, ensuring recommendations are smart, grounded in creative insights, knocks KPIs out of the park, and ultimately, help them sell shit!
  • Collaborate with strategists, community managers and mid-level clients in the delivery of social media creative work.
  • Work with a highly collaborative cross-agency team to deliver partnership and integrated ideas.
  • Manage social media reporting. Develops IATs/IMCs and presents VM in a strong, strategic way. You have the ability to spot when another agency poses a threat to our business and how to manage up and workaround.
  • Being a regular point of contact for the client and taking a critical role in actioning client and team requests that lead and shape social media creative work based on the client’s business objectives.
  • Working with the Project Manager to manage the day-to-day workflow of the account.
  • Being a key, proactive driver on the account – make stuff happen!
  • Proactively identifying social media opportunities for the client and help guide the resulting creative briefs and social media work.
  • Collaborating with other departments (Creative, Production, Analytics/Insights, Community Management) as one close, collaborative team that works together across deliverables, process, and output.
  • Partnering with the Account Director to drive the overall commercial and relationship health of the account.
  • Responsible for assignments centered around operational and internal initiatives, as provided by the Leadership team
  • Collaborate with the leaders of other departments (Creative, Project Management, Media, and Analytics) to improve and execute on client deliverables, process, and output.

We treasure Personality and Experience yet we do know that these qualifications lead to what WE KNOW as a success:

  • Driven by delivering client service excellence and best-in-class creative work.
  • Previous experience working within the social & digital, media, and agency space
  • Loves Social Media – they are active user, understand how it works and know the key platforms, trends and formats.
  • Developed advanced written and presentation communication skills, allowing them to comfortably engage with senior brand managers and partner agencies.
  • A proven expertise in brand strategy, across a number of verticals, with the ability to translate strategy into smart and sound digital tactics
  • An understanding of a brand marketing mix, ensuring that social & digital strategies integrate and amplify more traditional channels, while growing relationships with partner agencies
  • Relentlessly focused on building strong client relationships–becoming a trusted day-to-day partner with a deep understanding of your client’s category (and ours) & the challenges that they face.
  • Able to work at high pace in a fast-moving agency with a fast-moving client, being rigorous to a tee and not ashamed of their healthy level of perfectionism.
  • Comfortable owning work and being proactive and is not afraid to have a point of view, and to voice it.
  • Understands common marketing & media principles with a strong understanding of creative and media across major digital and social channels.
  • Experience of social media monitoring and reporting.
  • Loves the thought of helping create social media posts and advertising that prove how well they understand social.

Here’s how We Support You

We regularly review our benefits and are committed to providing a comprehensive programme for our people.

  • Unlimited Holiday + 1 Day Birthday Leave
  • Perkbox (online discount platform with 250 perks available).
  • Journey EAP - proactive and crisis support with life concierge services
  • Enhanced Parental Leave
  • Unlimited Coaching sessions, which can be private and team class sessions
  • Pension
  • NS Travel
  • Equip - Financial Wellbeing Services
  • ClassPass

What you SHOULD KNOW about VaynerMedia

Think “lab” and not “agency”. We get excited about solving business problems, not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising. Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep. We’re willing to break rules, try new things, and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft. It’s fun!

We believe 100% that brands can be built on digital platforms and part of our model is built bottom up, flipping the traditional advertising model and process on its head. We don’t play to agency/industry norms and our culture and energy reflects that.

Our environment (and pace) feels much more like a start-up than most agencies you might be used to. Hopefully that, and the opportunity to collaborate with the talented and enthusiastic crew, work with big brands excites you, as it does us. We can’t wait to meet you.

VaynerMedia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means that VaynerMedia provides equal employment opportunities to all staff members and job applicants without regard to gender, pregnancy, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, race, disability, sexual orientation, religious belief, part time or fixed term employment, age or any other legally protected class. 

Candidates must be authorized to work in the Netherlands.