Freelance Account Manager

*Available immediately only, starting w.c 6th January*

The Opportunity

This role is to work across two of Iris’ largest accounts; Samsung and Nectar.

Samsung is the agency’s largest and most integrated account. A true embodiment of the multi-specialism agency offering. With this comes unparalleled creative and strategic opportunities to develop distinctive and innovative work for one of the world’s biggest and most influential brands of the 21st century.

The Samsung team are split into business divisions and half of this role is to join the Samsung Europe team. Our mission is to drive cross category sales on Dotcom and eRetailers across Europe through ‘never been done before’ promotional propositions and producing engaging digital content and toolkits. This role is pivotal in making this happen.

The other half of this role is to work on Nectar, a social first account within Iris, with the Marketing Manager and Marketing Executive in the UK to deliver the always on organic social plan across TikTok and Instagram working with a Community Manager internally at Iris.

How you'd spend your day

On Samsung, externally you will be working closely with the European lead for ‘Demand Generation’ and a Marketing Manager at Samsung, as well as an Account Director, Strategist, Producer and a team of Designers within Iris to deliver promotional concepts, sell in decks and high-volume promotional campaigns and toolkits for European markets.

Your main focus will be running medium and supporting on larger promotional briefs. The Samsung Client team will also rely on you for delivery and client management excellence. We’ll expect you to build excellent relationships with the direct client team and earn their trust

quickly.This is a very fast paced account so collaboration, enthusiasm and clarity of communication are really important in this role.

On Nectar, externally you’ll be working with the Marketing Manager and the Marketing Executive, and internally with a Community Manager / Content Creator, Strategist and a Group Account Director on fulfilling an always on organic content plan to meet their business objectives to drive engagement. There may also be some adhoc briefs on this account – delivering monthly competitor reports, social media and print assets for paid media and updating toolkits.

What we're looking for

Energetic and dynamic?

• You will be working within a hungry and intelligent team so will need to have a passion for producing brilliant work, with attention to detail and keen to make things happen (at speed).

Able to connect with people quickly?

• Whether internally or externally, you need to know how to engage and manage stakeholders feedback and approvals. Prior experience working as a team on high volume toolkit delivery in fast turnaround will be beneficial as you’ll come in and hit the ground running.

Integrated background and curious?

• The two workstreams across Samsung and Nectar are very different and will offer lots of variety – an integrated background and/or an ability to pick up new types of projects will be beneficial!