We’re hiring a Community /Social Media Manager. Do you know your TikTok from your Discord? Are you constantly saving down content that inspires you on social? Are you passionate about sports and music with your finger on the pulse of youth/pop culture? If so, read on!

About Us 

M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment creates change for brands by making them culturally relevant in people’s passions. We forge enduring connections between brands and consumers through their love of sport, entertainment, and culture.

Our clients include, adidas, Amstel, Ballantine’s, Barclaycard, Barclays, Coca-Cola, Dettol, Dreams, Heineken, Kia, Old El Paso, UEFA Women’s Euro England 2022, Virgin Media O2 and WHOOP. With offices in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Sydney, New York and Johannesburg, a team of specialists deliver the agency’s core disciplines across sport, entertainment and lifestyle, including sponsorship consultancy, rights amplification, PR, branded content creation & experiential production.

Our work has been awarded across the board, including six-time Agency of the Year at the Sport Industry Awards and two-time large Agency of the Year at the UK Sponsorship Awards. The agency is driven by the philosophy of ‘Brutal Simplicity of Thought’, which has been the M&C Saatchi (UK) Group’s mantra since birth: simple messages are the most powerful, making Brutal Simplicity of Thought more valid today than ever before.

M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment sits within the M&C Saatchi Group. Beyond this, the M&C Saatchi global network spans 23 countries with major hubs in the UK, Europe, Middle East & Africa, Asia and Australia.

At M&C Saatchi Fabric

M&C Saatchi Fabric are a creative comms agency working with some of the world’s biggest brands, developing campaigns that are at the cutting edge of culture. Clients include adidas, Reebok, Coca-Cola, Bowers & Wilkins, Lynx, JD Sports and many more. The agency is looking for an exceptional social AD to join the growing team, delivering exciting social and digital work both locally and globally.

The Role

What we’re looking for

A passionate and enthusiastic community manager with an appetite to sink their teeth into a role where they can flex their creative and strategic muscles. They’ll be part of a community manager duo and will have a real opportunity to collaborate and shape the outputs of the day-to-day account. They’ll know their TikTok from their Discord and constantly be saving down content that inspires them on social. They’ll have a passion for sports or music and Gen Z culture.

As the eyes and ears of the community, they’ll be the human lens across the brand. They will be on hand to ensure we deliver community driven content calendars and remain proactive and responsive across channels. They’ll work with the social content creator and strategist and proactively look for ways to take things further. They’ll have a proven track record as a community/ social media manager and love getting under the skin of a brand.

• Overall social media community management monitoring of social pages including stakeholder escalation.
• Ideation and development of the social media calendar with support from the social content creator and in-house studio and project manager.
• Collaborate on influencer content ideas.
• Live on the ground coverage and publishing with support from the social content creator.
• Support the strategist with weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting.
• Support wider agency with content seeding plans and copywriting

Skills

• Channel moderation, escalation, and engagement.
• Content calendar development
• Pro-active/ reactive content ideas
• Good social copywriter for both paid and organic
• Understanding of social platforms such as YouTube, Discord, TikTok, Twitter, BeReal, Instagram, Twitch
• Comfortable working across live events
• Have best in class platform knowledge
• Passionate about communities and storytelling
• Compile design briefs and briefings
• Creative thinker
• Understanding of basic social metrics and reporting
• Comfortable being client facing with support from wider accounts team.

What we offer

For the right candidate, we will offer a competitive salary and benefits package which includes private healthcare, dental, employer contributory pension, life assurance and income protection. We also offer a host of benefits that support wellbeing including subsided gym membership, whilst our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion sees us offer learning opportunities around DE&I, targeted mentoring programmes and the opportunity to participate in a number of active Employee Led Networks and associated events. Finally, this role will be supported with all the necessary personal development required to set someone up for success.

The M&C Saatchi Group UK has pledged its commitment to create a company that values difference, with an inclusive culture brought to life through equity with an 18-month roadmap of business-wide activity across people, culture, industry and society. As part of this, M&C Saatchi Group continues to be an Equal Opportunity Employer which does not and shall not discriminate, celebrates diversity and bases all hiring and promotion decisions solely on merit, without regard for any personal characteristics.

All employee information is kept confidential according to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

We’re hiring a Senior Account Director to work on two of our prestigious clients in Entertainment, both big blue-chip brands activating in culture. This is a new and exciting opportunity to join our established and growing Entertainment division, working on new clients. You’ll have strong PR strategy and campaign planning, media, influencer and media management experience, for this opportunity and importantly you’ll be immersed in music and fashion culture and previous experience of working on big brands in a global or regional capacity.

About Us 

M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment is a creative leader in the passion marketing sector, we connect brands to a diverse range of consumers through the things they love. We deliver award-winning campaigns for a number of leading brands globally, regionally and within individual markets.

About the Entertainment Division

The ‘Entertainment’ in ‘Sport & Entertainment’ is a hugely exciting and profitable area of the business, with a 20 plus strong team that shape and manage culture platforms across music, gaming and TV for brands including Virgin Media O2, Barclaycard, Absolut, Malibu, Ballantine’s, Google Pixel, Ladbrokes, and Jameson, developing campaigns that are at the cutting edge of culture. The agency are looking for an exceptional SAD to join the growing team, helping to shape the growth of our client’s culture platforms, managing key culture partnerships and delivering exciting Talent, PR and influencer led work.

Location: London

Requirements:

– PR, campaign, and influencer experience

– Strong knowledge of the media, social media and digital landscapes

– Love of youth culture, pop culture and an ear to the ground for the latest trends

– First class communication skills, including document writing and presentations

About the Role:

A Senior Account Director’s role is leadership based. As a Senior Account Director in Entertainment, you are responsible for leading your team and providing direction and council to both team and client. You are responsible for developing successful creative campaigns which achieve the client’s strategic objectives and ensuring that work is completed to the highest possible standard. You also play a key role in the wider business and should have commercial awareness and an understanding of company, business, and financial objectives.

Core responsibilities include:

• Strategic and creative development of client campaigns
• Overseeing the implementation and delivery of campaigns including financial control of budgets
• Primary point of contact for clients, dealing with the majority of senior level relations and counsel
• Managing teams on both a day-to-day basis and a wider level, using experience and knowledge to aid the development of junior staff
• Overall budgeting on accounts including estimation, tracking, billing and forecasting
• Playing a broader role in company business including new business and staff development
• Taking an active role as line manager, including managing the appraisal process

Client Relationships

• Maintain regular communication with main client contacts to establish a relationship of trust, ensuring that you are viewed as a source of sound strategic, creative and operational advice

Consulting

• Direct client contact and ensure that all work delivered to clients is of an appropriate standard
• Provide sound strategic counsel using experience, insight and professional opinion to shape an informed point of view
• Be proactive in identifying solutions to problems that arise as campaigns develop, and in pre-empting potential considerations

Strategy, creativity and planning

• Play a central role in developing creative campaigns that achieve the client’s strategic objectives
• Be responsible for the development of responses to briefs from existing clients and, where relevant, to new business briefs
• Ensure briefs are fully analysed/interrogated and develop an efficient creative brainstorming process, resulting in first class creative solutions
• Produce standout written plans, demonstrating good storytelling, strong written skills and the ability to effectively position an idea to the client. Ensure that both content and look and feel are of a high standard
• Work with senior staff to ensure that all agency responses are creative, achievable and meet the client’s strategic objectives

Team management / leadership

• Manage team members on a day-to-day basis to ensure effective account running
• Provide clear briefs and time frames to team members for all working tasks
• Give clear guidance, direction and feedback to your team to ensure they are aware of what they need to deliver and when
• Encourage proactivity from all team members
• Build a strong framework to ensue you are managing your team effectively, implementing regular team catch ups and reporting systems
• Manage upwards and flag any issue to senior management
• Oversee servicing responsibilities, ensuring the correct resourcing for each account

Campaign delivery

• Lead campaign execution, ensuring first class delivery and success against objectives
• Be responsible for the briefing of junior staff, delegating and assigning specific roles against campaign tasks and deliverables
• Empower junior staff to take ownership of specific campaign elements to further their development and increase client exposure to the whole team
• Lead regular internal and external update and review meetings and conference calls
• Be responsible for quality control on every element of agency output

Budgeting and finance

• Be responsible for high level financial administration
• Work with senior colleagues and negotiate with clients over fee and activity budgets
• Understand impact of staff cost on the profitability of accounts and manage resource accordingly

Broader company role

• Be involved in new business development including identification/pursuit of leads and leading pitch processes
• Identify opportunities for external company marketing and PR
• Manage the appraisal and review process for junior staff
• Liaise with other account directors to ensure that staff resource allocation matches operational requirements and is planned in a timely and efficient manner
• Line manage assigned members of more junior staff, working towards their growth and development

Commercial Awareness

• Have commercial awareness, understand and contribute to the achievement of wider company business objectives
• Approach work with overall profitability for the business in mind
• Actively seek and develop new business opportunities
• Maintain good business practice on behalf of the company towards clients and suppliers

Marketing and PR

• Ensure that successful PR output is at the heart of all client work

• Display a sophisticated understanding of how PR enables clients to achieve their business objectives and provide competent counsel against their commercial deliverables

Media Management

• Have a strong knowledge of media be able to offer your team and client council on the media landscape and fully understand media’s needs and requirements
• Maintain strong relationships with key high-level media across all relevant clients
• Manage your team to ensure they are delivering rich editorial opportunities
• Be aware of all client coverage and articles of interest, as informed by more junior members of the team
• Be aware of any coverage issues your team may face ahead of it becoming an issue with your client and deliver effective solutions.

Social Media

• Work with Digital Director to define relevant client strategy based on brief and objectives
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the social media / digital media landscape – in particular in relation to your client’s digital presence and objectives
• Incorporate relevant digital mechanics / strategy into client responses
• Help to manage the cross-agency structure (where relevant) understanding where we fit into it from a digital perspective
• Develop an understanding of emerging technology and its potential uses in marketing. Use these insights to sell new ideas to the client
• Provide strategic counsel to the client based on their social objectives and competitor activity
• Proof and approve content for social media created by your team
• Proof and approve social media reports and ensure insights and recommendations identified fit with the broader strategy

Campaign Execution

• Oversee the planning and implementation of client activations
• Work to ensure that activation is delivered to an extremely high standard, on time and within budget
• Ensure success and a results driven approach when implementing all campaigns
• Be aware of any financial or logistical issues before they become an issue for the client and provide relevant solutions.

What we offer

For the right candidate, we will offer a competitive salary and benefits package with a day off for your birthday, private healthcare, employer contributory pension, life assurance and income protection. We also offer a host of benefits that support wellbeing including subsided gym membership, summer hours, flexible bank holidays, carer support etc., whilst our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion sees us offer learning opportunities around DE&I, targeted mentoring programmes and the opportunity to participate in a number of active Employee Led Networks and associated events. Finally, this role will be supported with all the necessary personal development required to set someone up for success.

The M&C Saatchi Group UK has pledged its commitment to create a company that values difference, with an inclusive culture brought to life through equity with an 18-month roadmap of business-wide activity across people, culture, industry and society. As part of this, M&C Saatchi Group continues to be an Equal Opportunity Employer which does not and shall not discriminate, celebrates diversity and bases all hiring and promotion decisions solely on merit, without regard for any personal characteristics.

All employee information is kept confidential according to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

This is a new and exciting opportunity to join our award-winning team based in Amsterdam.

The role offers a rare opportunity to work on global clients within the world of sport and entertainment, across a diverse range of projects and brands.

We’re looking for an Account Manager with strong organisational and project management skills along with PR and media relations experience. You’ll also have worked on experiential projects and influencer campaigns.

About Us 

M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment creates change for brands by making them culturally relevant in people’s passions. We forge enduring connections between brands and consumers through their love of sport, entertainment, and culture.

Our clients include, adidas, Amstel, Ballantine’s, Barclaycard, Barclays, Coca-Cola, Dettol, Dreams, Heineken, Kia, Old El Paso, UEFA Women’s Euro England 2022, Virgin Media O2 and WHOOP. With offices in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Sydney, New York and Johannesburg, a team of specialists deliver the agency’s core disciplines across sport, entertainment and lifestyle, including sponsorship consultancy, rights amplification, PR, branded content creation & experiential production.

Our work has been awarded across the board, including six-time Agency of the Year at the Sport Industry Awards and two-time large Agency of the Year at the UK Sponsorship Awards. The agency is driven by the philosophy of ‘Brutal Simplicity of Thought’, which has been the M&C Saatchi (UK) Group’s mantra since birth: simple messages are the most powerful, making Brutal Simplicity of Thought more valid today than ever before.

M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment sits within the M&C Saatchi Group. Beyond this, the M&C Saatchi global network spans 23 countries with major hubs in the UK, Europe, Middle East & Africa, Asia and Australia.

About our Amsterdam office

You join the Amsterdam team at an exciting time of growth. The office opened in 2020. This role is integral to building the team, developing the culture of the agency and delivering client excellence.

As we enter our fourth year in Amsterdam – weaving Reebok Classic into the fabric of street style, making Heineken’s global sponsorships culturally relevant for fans, helping unlock Amsterdam nightlife for Red Bull, launching Sky Showtime in the Netherlands, showcasing the spirit of Amsterdam for Amstel and much more – we are on the hunt for the brightest, most diverse, passionate and culturally curious new colleagues to join us.

Are you someone who leaves their ego at the door and get on with making a difference to help us become the most famous, influential, and inclusive agency in our space?

We want people with the ambition to dream, a nothing is impossible spirit and a desire to deliver exceptional work for our clients.

The Role:

Account Manager

Key Responsibilities:

As an Account Manager, you will be responsible for the efficient day-to-day management of your accounts with a focus on:

1. Campaign, Experiential and Partnership Management
2. PR / Media Management
3. Junior Team (AE, SAE) and Client Management

Your skills and experience should include:

• Strong written document and presentation skills
• Positive-attitude, proactive and solutions driven

• Project management
• Media relations and hosting
• Toolkit writing and creation of assets
• Branded content creation
• Event management and delivery
• Partner liaison and management
• Talent handling
• Supporting influencer engagement programmes
• Managing small team of AEs, SAEs

Requirements

• Previous account management experience, with a focus on PR
• English language (professional), Dutch is a plus but not essential
• Experience working on integrated campaigns
• A clear passion for the sport and entertainment industry
• Right to work in the EU
• Understanding of day-to-day workings of agency life
• No specific education level required

What we offer

For the right candidate, we will offer a competitive salary and benefits package which includes private healthcare, employer contributory pension, life assurance, income protection and our inclusive bank holiday initiative. We also offer a host of benefits that support wellbeing including subsided gym membership, whilst our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion sees us offer learning opportunities around DE&I, targeted mentoring programmes and the opportunity to participate in a number of active Employee Led Networks and associated events. Finally, this role will be supported with all the necessary personal development required to set someone up for success.

The M&C Saatchi Group UK has pledged its commitment to create a company that values difference, with an inclusive culture brought to life through equity with an 18-month roadmap of business-wide activity across people, culture, industry and society. As part of this, M&C Saatchi Group continues to be an Equal Opportunity Employer which does not and shall not discriminate, celebrates diversity and bases all hiring and promotion decisions solely on merit, without regard for any personal characteristics.

All employee information is kept confidential according to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).