Account Manager

Ear to the Ground

Account Manager at Ear to the Ground leading integrated brand campaigns. Collaborating with creative teams and managing client relationships in the sports and entertainment sector.

Posted 6/6/2026full-timeManchester • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support the end-to-end delivery of high-level, complex integrated marketing campaigns, ensuring key milestones are met.
Own and manage the end-to-end delivery of lower-level integrated campaigns.
Assist in managing timelines, budgets, and resources to keep campaigns on track.
Coordinate across creative, production, strategy, and media teams to ensure seamless execution and resourcing.
Have a thorough understanding of your department's roles and responsibilities and all of the agency's processes.
Actively drive best practice processes across all projects working with other team members to ensure a consistently high standard across the whole agency.
Work with the Senior Account Manager and Account Director to nurture existing client relationships and build confidence in the agency and its ability to deliver campaigns to the highest standard.
Present, alongside agency colleagues creative responses, strategy and insight ideas and concepts to the client.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years of experience in campaign/project management within a creative, advertising, or marketing agency.
Experience within an agency environment.
Strong understanding of integrated marketing campaigns, including digital, social, experiential and content production.
Excellent organisational and communication skills, with strong attention to detail.
The ability to lead internal agency teams through campaign delivery.
The ability to lead clients through agency campaign delivery.
Ability to multitask and manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, often changing, environment is a must.
Strong team player with a proactive and problem-solving mindset.
Passion for sport, gaming, or wider culture is a must for this role.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible & hybrid working
Birthday off
Workplace nursery benefit
Enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
Private medical insurance and health cash plan
Enhanced sick leave
Cycle to Work scheme
Dog friendly office
EV salary sacrifice scheme
Personal development coaching + more

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Hard Skills & Tools

campaign managementproject managementintegrated marketingdigital marketingsocial media marketingexperiential marketingcontent production

Soft Skills

organizational skillscommunication skillsattention to detailleadershipmultitaskingproblem-solvingteam playerproactive mindset