Senior Account Manager | Sport | London

Overview

Hanover is an award-winning communications consultancy that advises enterprises, institutions, and individuals on building recognition and enhancing reputation. From our offices across Europe and the Middle East, we adopt an integrated approach that connects the dots across channels, audiences and issues. Our collective of smart, curious people think differently and live by a shared mission, purpose, vision, and values. These shape how we work, not just with our colleagues, but with clients and partners too.Our mission is to ‘rewire communications for impact’ and harness its transformative power to advocate, trailblaze and make a difference. We do this by igniting and empowering the potential of every individual within our company, recognising that each person is a unique spark, capable of creating extraordinary impact. We believe that by nurturing and harnessing the collective brilliance of our people, we can drive innovation, foster an uncommon work culture, and make a positive difference to society.Embracing the complete range of skills and services across the communications spectrum without constraint, we create the best outcomes for our clients and deliver world-class work.Role

Hanover Sport is recruiting for a Senior Account Manager who will work across our biggest sport brand accounts – NFL, Wimbledon, Women’s Super League Football - and be a key part of a fast-paced growing team.Responsibilities

Client responsibilities – 60% of your timeOverseeing day-to-day execution of client campaigns including strategy development, media relations, storytelling and events. The role will include working across the diverse range of brands delivering game changing work for:

NFL

– Day-to-day lead on account. This includes initiative storytelling, championing key moments in the season such as the London Games and Super Bowl, and supporting on the international media operation for the London Games.Wimbledon

– Proactive storytelling lead (off the court storytelling!) – this includes proposal-through-to-project delivery. You will be a key player in an integrated account that delivers strategic communications for Wimbledon.WSL Football

– Day-to-day lead with a focus on brand storytelling and strong experience negotiating and delivering high impact coverage across cultural, lifestyle, youth and sports media.

Take a key role in the development of organic account opportunities including the creation of clear strategies, killer creative ideas and brand storytelling strategiesProactive media relations is essential to the success of our team and client work. Therefore, you need to lead by example and drive media relations across a broad media mixActively collaborate with cross agency/network teams to showcase the Hanover SportRequirementsExcellent understanding of the media and social media landscape to guide clients in their PR approachStrong understanding and demonstrable experience of the sport marcomms landscape and awareness of the sports (NB- in depth knowledge of NFL, WSL and Wimbledon are a nice-to-have but not essential)Experience running global media operations for high profile events and player / team / brand media daysAbility to build comprehensive media strategies across youth, lifestyle, sport and news mediaConfident providing consultancy on industry topics, media and audience insightsExcellent writing skills across various content formats e.g press release, proposal, social media etcConfident in creating and managing budgets for clients and supplierHighly organised with great attention to detailAgency responsibilities

20% of your timeEmbody the agency values in your work and how you run your teams. It is essential that you foster a team ethic where we support each other and go above and beyond for our clients.Participate in training and cross network creative ideation sessionsTo actively collaborate with wider Hanover teams/cross agencyTaking a leading and hands on role in the development of our young and talented team. Open door policy and supportive attitude.Personal Attributes

Confident communicator within large groupsProactive, committed, enthusiastic and energeticAdept at building relationships with external and internal stakeholdersNew Business responsibilities

20% of your timeConfident in being a driving force behind a new business proposal development – from overseeing the team on insights, to supporting on the strategy development and to leading on the idea generation.Excellent presenter and ability to build a rapport with prospectsStrong network to feed into the growth pipeline of new business opportunitiesProactive networkerDiversity, Equity and Inclusion

Hanover Communications is an equal opportunities employer, committed to creating and ensuring a fair, inclusive, and diverse work environment where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We believe that equality and diversity are essential to high performance and a thriving culture.We maintain a strict no-tolerance stance against any form of discrimination and harassment, ensuring all individuals are treated equitably, irrespective of their race, ethnicity, religion, beliefs, age, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, marital or pregnancy status, genetic background, or any other attribute safeguarded under our company policies or federal, state or local laws and legislation.We want to ensure that our hiring process is accessible. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please send an email to recruitment@hanovercomms.com with the nature of your request.We are committed to transparency about how we collect and use your data, including ensuring we comply with legal obligations relating to data protection. You can view our data privacy policy here.Hanover is part of AVENIR GLOBAL’s powerhouse of specialist communications consultancies across EMEA and North America. Collectively we rank among the top 15 largest communication firms in the world.Apply for this job

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