Client Director

(£45,000/yr - £55,000/yr · Full-time) + bonuses

We’re on the hunt for a seasoned Client Director (Account Director in conventional agencies) to join our Client Partnership team.

This smart and effective client lead will support the team in delivering ‘proper marketing’ made up of robust research, brilliant brand strategy, and 'Creatively Memorable & Boringly Effective™’ marketing executions. Reporting to the Department Head and two founders, they will have a proven track record of identifying opportunities to expand client relationships, drive revenue growth, and lead effective client strategy.

We want someone who shares our fearless attitude, is keen to lead, and develop a pivotal role within a highly respected, growing, marketing agency. Client partnership is our beating heart and we are on a mission to make our team best-in-class; what will you bring?

START DATE
What you doing tomorrow? (Immediate)

HOLIDAY
25 days + your birthday + Christmas.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT
Hybrid working to include ≥3 days on site in Reading, Berkshire.

TIMINGS
The successful applicant will be offered the role as soon as they are identified and will be required to respond to a brief as part of the selection process.

APPLY
If you think you’re who we want, then get in touch with (at least) your CV and anything else you've got to share.

What Will You Be Doing?

• Get stuck in from the off; get to know our clients’ businesses, their industry, and markets to understand their challenges and support your ideas.
• Take a lead on creating new opportunities with businesses we don’t yet know, and create opportunities for us to deepen our relationship with those we know well.
• Grab hold of client and new business requests that come in, and expertly lead on formulating our responses, demonstrating our expertise and value from the first chat.
• Lead on pitching, proposals and proactive thinking with the founders and team.
• Lead research (with a third party delivery partner), brand and marketing strategy projects.
• Be actively involved with our growth plans, leading some areas of our strategy.
• When a new client joins …Gasp!, be their trusted advisor as they get settled with their team.
• Mentor our growing team.
• Help others if needed, and ask questions as you go.

We’d like you to have:

• Marketing/Media/Creative Qualification(s). Ideally at least one of the Mark Ritson mini MBAs.

• An interest in the Behavioural Sciences and Consumer Psychology.

• Experience being self-employed, acting as a marketing consultant or similar or experience working ‘client-side’. If none of those, a demonstrable track record of being entrepreneurial, self-motivated and creating positive change in a business

• 10 years + experience in marketing and/or brand

• Brave and prepared to take risks.

• A good sense of humour.

• And most importantly, happy to say, “I don’t know right now, but I’ll find out”.

Account Executive

(£18,000/yr - £20,000/yr · Full-time)

We’re after an intelligent and ambitious Account Executive, who is well-versed in digital media, knows their Tic-Tacs from their TikToks, is willing to have a go at just about anything, and is keen to develop a role within an opinionated and fearless marketing agency. Reporting primarily into the Client Partnerships team you’ll play an integral role in supporting clients, colleagues and campaigns.

START DATE
What you doing tomorrow? (Immediate)

HOLIDAY
25 days (+ 1 day for every year employed) + your birthday + Christmas.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT
Hybrid working.

TIMINGS
The successful applicant will be offered the role as soon as they are identified and will be required to respond to a creative brief as part of the selection process.

APPLY
If you think you’re who we want, then get in touch with (at least) your CV and anything else you've got to share.

Day to day

• Get stuck in from the off; get to know our clients’ businesses, their industry, and markets to understand their challenges and support your ideas
• Support our Client Partnerships team to develop, implement and manage social media campaigns for Gasp and our clients
  
• Manage and oversee media content (planning, copywriting, scheduling, reporting)
• Measure the success of every campaigns by collecting relevant data, to report, learn, and improve future campaigns
• Stay up to date with the latest social media best practices and technologies
• Use social media marketing tools and scheduling software (such as Buffer and Hootsuite)
• Assist the Studio team with day-to-day running of our Top 5 UK podcast, Call to Action®, e.g., liaising with guests, production, release, and promotion of fortnightly episodes
• Help others if needed, and ask questions as you go
• Additional duties and projects as requested, including assisting our mental health initiative ISOLATED Talks®

Ideals

• Marketing/Media/Creative Qualification(s).
• An interest in the Behavioural Sciences and Consumer Psychology.
• Experience (placements accepted) agency-side and/or in social media management, with emphasis on content creation, monitoring/analysis and copywriting - unless you can show us that you’re totally amazing but with no experience.
• Excellent grasp of the English language. Like, well good at it.
• First-rate knowledge of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and other social media
• Brave and prepared to take risks.
• A keen interest in all advertising media (from OOH to social).
• A good sense of humour.
• A hunger to learn.
• And most importantly, happy to say, “I don’t know right now, but I’ll find out”.