Senior Account Manager

The role

We Are looking for an experienced Senior Account Manager to join an established team here in London who are pushing the boundaries of sports marketing for world-class sports and lifestyle brands.

Who We Are

We Are Social Sport London is a team of 40+ sport obsessed digital researchers, strategists, creatives and producers. We understand how culture, technology and consumer behaviour interlink around sport to produce award winning creative solutions – we call this Game Changing Sports Marketing.

We’re proud to be a multi award-winning agency, with Cannes Lions, One Show, Webby and Shorty Awards, to name but a few. Our most recent work has seen us help Pepsi, Meta and adidas deliver some of their biggest and most innovative campaigns to date, from breaking into the metaverse to smashing records on TikTok. 

The biggest and best sports brands, rights holders and sponsors in the world including adidas, Pepsi, ATP, Ferrari, ATP and many, many more. We’ve travelled the world, shooting the world’s biggest and best sporting talent, at the biggest sporting moments in history. World Cups, European Championships, Champions League finals, Rugby World Cups, all the tennis majors, and more.

The Opportunity 

Are you sports obsessed and want to make culturally driven sports work?

Are you excited by the opportunity to also work at key sporting events throughout the year to help manage, capture and execute social first content?

Do you want to help shape our vision of sports marketing and make an impact across the industry?

We Are looking for an experienced Senior Account Manager to join an established team here in London who are pushing the boundaries of sports marketing for world-class sports and lifestyle brands. You will have experience in always-on social strategy, content production and be used to managing day to day demands of your clients. You will be managing strategically important clients within Sport – namely adidas Football. You will have experience working with a Senior Account Director to lead campaign management for multi-million £ budgets and can explain how you have worked cross-departmental, to ensure alignment and deadlines have been met.

Requirements

What You’ll Have Delivered Elsewhere

• Coordinated campaigns within given timelines, to budget and to the exceptionally high standard expected from our clients.
• Delivery of high-profile productions with talent to ensure smooth operations and meeting the expectations of the client.
• Sustained success with a client over an extended period of time (retained relationship / client growth)
• Successfully Identified opportunities with existing clients that have turned into future briefs and helped to grow the account.
• Led teams across production, research, strategy, creative, and editorial to deliver goals and measurable impact.
• Created captivating content from scratch and breathe new life into existing assets that have delivered high levels of engagement
• Demonstrable social expertise – you’ll be expected to draw on your knowledge of trends, developments and new technology through a genuine passion for social and provide recommendations to clients that are adopted.
• Orchestration of multiple workstreams / projects across multiple EU markets whilst overseeing a team for delivery

What Else Are We Looking For?

• Always takes full accountability for your results/deliverables
• Experience working on a fast paced account
• Being solutions-driven and be confident in vocalising them 
• Experience minimising the need for clients/stakeholders to escalate issues above me or to require unnecessary input from my colleagues
• Will Contribute new ideas and points internally which are then taken forward/adopted

Benefits

Our Culture and the Nice Stuff

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion runs in the water here at We Are Social. We are transparent about the changes that are needed, we are focused on making real strides, both internally and within the industry and we strive to truly be a workplace that represents, supports and advocates for ALL. Our Charter for Change in the UK  can be found here which details our focus areas across People, Work and Culture in 2023.

If you require any support, adjustments or accommodations for any reason whatsoever during the recruitment process, please let us know via [email protected]

So let’s get to the good stuff,  we offer all those things you would naturally expect; 25 days holiday, pension scheme & life assurance. But what we love most is connection, so we have our WAS Passport and Work From Anywhere schemes which allow you to truly connect to colleagues all over the world! 

But what’s life around here really like day-to-day? Well, we ask our people regularly what they think about us/their role and here are some of the most common things they say:

• I value my manager we have a good relationship
• We love to ‘get social’ with the people I work with
• Trusted to get on with the job, without ‘micro-management’!

If this all sounds like the place you have been waiting to find then apply now! What are you waiting for?