Creative Account Manager - Design Agency

Want to do the best work of your life? Make your mark at Europe’s leading entertainment brand. Our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work – a place where you can be yourself and let your skills shine.

We’re looking for an outstanding Account Manager to join Sky Creative’s advertising team and design forward thinking campaigns for Sky's product & entertainment portfolio. Reporting into the Creative Director for Advertising Design, you'll develop creative responses from brief, visualise those ideas to a high standard and then see the development of campaigns through to delivery, shaping the way the world sees and feels Sky.

What you’ll do:

You’ll lead on smaller projects across your business area such as on air priority promos and BTL campaigns.

You’ll support the senior team members of larger integrated campaigns from brief to delivery, partnering with teams within Sky Creative and Marketing, and ensuring progression across all stages, delivering on time and on budget.

Be the key liaison between multiple teams, ensuring feedback is implemented on time and issues are raised to the Account Director/Senior Account Director to resolve as required.

Co-ordinate briefing meetings with relevant teams, ensuring timelines and budgets are followed accurately.

Drive the project forward with dedication and reliance to ensure it’s success.

Work closely with media partners and internal and external teams to ensure all parties have the necessary information concerning deliverables for the campaign/priority promotion (owned Sky media).

Look for ways of simplifying & adding clarity to everything we do. Proactively identify blockers, recommend solutions and work with your seniors to implement them.

Responsible for all project admin to be always up to date to enable accurate project reporting and tracking.

What you’ll bring:

Ethusiasm to develop brilliant creative for the brand.

Strong experience from an integrated / design agency background, the ability to work and think TTL .

Strong project management skills; experienced at managing multiple projects with short and long lead times.

Ability to develop competitor analysis reports for respective area of the business.

Ablility to manage all deliverables typical of an integrated advertising and communications campaign, from ATL to Digital.

Strong relationship building skills – trust, collaboration, knowledge, gets best out of people.

Resilience and initiative - working within fast paced communications and marketing environments.

Collaborative and capable of working seamlessly in team.

Team Overview

Sky Creative is Sky’s European Brand and Creative hub providing Brand Strategy, Brand Design, Advertising, Promotions, Broadcast Creative and Digital Design for multiple stakeholders across our European Markets.

From rebranding Sky Sports to designing key art and creating large-scale ATL campaigns for Sky’s commissions and original productions, we are uniquely placed to offer our people a huge range of exciting and diverse opportunities.

We believe that an in-house agency is the best of both worlds. A great portfolio of work with unrivalled proximity to our clients, programme makers and commissioners alike. We are passionate about what we do and share first-hand in the success of the brands, shows and content we help create, promote and market.

We’re committed to delivering brilliant creative, made by people that love what they do.

The Rewards:

There's a reason people can't stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place

A generous pension package

Private healthcare

Discounted mobile and broadband

Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences

How you'll work:

We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.

Your office base:

Osterley

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There’s also plenty of bike shelters and showers.

On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Inclusion:

We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we’ve committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We’ve also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.

At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we're happy to discuss flexible working.

And we'll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you