Account Manager
Havas Edge
Job Description
Overview
In this role, you serve as the primary day-to-day contact for key client projects, ensuring timely, on-budget delivery and translating creative ideas into tangible results. You’ll manage integrated campaigns across PR, social, influencer, and content, building trust as a strategic advisor to clients. You’ll lead cross-functional collaboration to meet client objectives while spotting opportunities to grow accounts.
This is a chance to shape impactful campaigns within a creative, energetic agency culture that values initiative and collaboration.
Responsibilities- Own client relationships and lead conversations, anticipating issues before they arise
- Deliver excellent client servicing within scope, while identifying growth opportunities
- Build rapport through regular proactive communication and client touchpoints
- Solicit feedback to continuously improve servicing and relationship quality
- Support with client decks and presentations to convey progress and value
- Educate clients on earned media value, managing expectations on coverage and timelines
- Manage integrated campaigns from briefing to delivery, ensuring on time, on budget, and on point
- Develop project plans, timelines, and budgets for multiple campaigns while upholding quality standards
- Coordinate activities like press send-outs, influencer visits, and brand activations
- Anticipate blockers and risks, implementing mitigation strategies
- Drive innovation via a test-and-learn approach in campaigns
- Develop briefs that inspire strategic thinking and creative direction
- Present work with clear rationale to clients
- Ensure understanding of client objectives, audiences, and brand guidelines
- Collaborate with strategy and creative teams to align ideas to business goals
- Bring platform fluency and cultural awareness to recommendations
- Stay curious about consumer culture and trends to inform campaigns
- Apply audience segmentation, data storytelling, and ESG principles to campaigns
- Contribute to creative brainstorms with earned-media focus
- Oversee reporting and turn data into actionable client insights
- Manage scopes, budgets, forecasting, and resourcing with transparency
- Track coverage and support campaign optimization
- Lead internal teams with clarity and guidance
- Mentor junior team members and foster a collaborative environment
- Maintain high organization and attention to detail
- Be a positive, resilient team player with a sense of humour
- 2–4 years’ experience in PR/communications/social or integrated agency at Account Manager level
- Demonstrated experience independently leading integrated consumer PR campaigns
- Experience with budget management, forecasting, and resource allocation
- Proven track record of developing strong client relationships and identifying growth opportunities
- Experience supervising or mentoring junior team members
- Excellent written and verbal communication and confidence presenting to clients
- Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities
- Robust understanding of media landscape, social platforms, and influencer marketing
- Strong financial acumen for managing budgets, scopes, and forecasting
- Natural leader capable of motivating and guiding internal teams
- Highly organized with meticulous attention to detail
- Team player with positive, resilient, can-do attitude
- Sense of humour
- relationship-building
- proactive mindset
- collaboration
- campaign management
- integrated PR and social campaigns
- influencer marketing