European Account Manager- Advertising Research Automotive

The Role

This is a Key Regional Account Management role working with a Global Automotive account. This position will be based in UK as part of European Regional Servicing Team, working from home office and on-site at client.

Please note: Market Research experience in the Ad & Brand sector is required for this role. Automotive experience would be a positive.

Key Desired Experience/Skills:

• Proven track record of successful account management/client servicing gained within a Market Research agency environment (6+ yrs, could be mix of agency/client side), currently operating at a mid-level (Account Manager level)
• Broad market research experience,
• Strong track record in brand/advertising tracking and creative development research
• Strong analytical, enquiring, insightful and strategic thinking abilities
• Ability to translate research data into action and deliver action-oriented story-based debriefs
• Strong written and oral communication skills, including confident and persuasive approach to meetings/presentations
• High level of attention to detail
• Strong organizational/time management skills and ability to work off own initiative
• Fluent in English, additional fluency in main European languages desirable
• Location : Flexible. Based in West Midlands/Oxfordshire ideally

Key Responsibilities:

• Working as part of Regional Servicing Team to ensure multi-country tracking and pre-testing program delivers against overall client expectation/needs.
• Key day to day contact for client(s) in terms of communication, servicing, and consultation around the program
• Ongoing liaison with central operational team to ensure effective program execution, including questionnaire/study/data management
• Manages reporting/deliverables with support of central operations team
• Works with support of Regional Account Lead on insight generation and delivers clear conclusions and recommendation/direction to client team(s) based on findings from program data
• Share delivery/presenting of reports/deliverables as required
• Develops understanding of client’s portfolio and marketing agenda to ensure research program provides the guidance required by client
• Works with Account Lead to identify potential growth/cross-sell opportunities to build agency footprint and assists in proposing appropriate research solutions to client that meet the identified needs