- Location
- Bristol, Bristol
- Type
- Temporary
- Department
- Sales
- Seniority
- Manager
Description
Senior Account Manager
Department: Account Management
Employment Type: Fixed Term Contract
Location: Bristol
Description
We are looking for an experienced Senior Account Manager to take a leading day-to-day role across our STIHL North America CRM business during a 12-month maternity cover. We would expect an office presence in Bristol of roughly twice a month.
Responsibilities
Client Leadership & Relationship Management
- Build strong, trusted relationships with STIHL stakeholders across the US and Canada.
- Act as a key day-to-day point of contact, developing a detailed understanding of client priorities, business challenges and the CRM ambitions.
- Manage expectations proactively and ensure clear, regular communication across client and agency teams.
- Identify potential delivery or relationship issues early and work collaboratively to resolve them.
- Present campaign plans, recommendations and performance outputs clearly and confidently.
- Support alignment between North American activity and relevant Global STIHL initiatives.
CRM Programme & Campaign Management
- Oversee the end-to-end CRM delivery process, from briefing and planning through creative, data, build, QA, approval and deployment.
- Manage CRM activity across channels including email, SMS and automated lifecycle programmes.
- Maintain a clear view of the North American CRM roadmap, priorities and upcoming deliverables.
- Ensure campaigns and projects are delivered to a consistently high standard, on time and within agreed scope and budget.
- Help evolve the programme from BAU campaign execution towards increasingly personalised, automated and lifecycle-led CRM.
Commercial & Financial Management
- Work with the AD and BD to understand and own the day-to-day commercial health of the account.
- Manage budgets, scopes, retainers and project finances.
- Maintain accurate forecasts within Synergist, our agency finance and job management system.
- Work closely with Finance to manage billing, invoicing, revenue recognition and profitability.
- Monitor resource utilisation against agreed retainers and project scopes.
- Ensure projects and campaigns are set up, tracked and reconciled correctly.
Skills and Experience
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years' CRM, digital or integrated account management experience, gained agency-side or within a sophisticated client marketing organisation.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of CRM and lifecycle marketing.
- Experience managing complex email, SMS and automated customer journey programmes.
- Experience working alongside specialists in strategy, data, technology, digital and creative.
- Strong knowledge of CRM/customer engagement platforms to realise value of cross channel platform leading to growth and new opportunities for the account. Iterable experience would be particularly beneficial.
- Experience with agency financial/job-management platforms. Synergist experience would be advantageous.
- A proven ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously while maintaining excellent attention to detail.
- Confidence working with senior stakeholders, building long term strategic partnerships and presenting recommendations clearly.