Account Manager - Midlands - Up to £28k pa depending on experience

Salary: Up to £28k pa depending on experience

A highly successful print management company requires the services of an Account Manager. As the link between the accounts and our client you will strive to understand your client's goals and then organise suppliers to produce successful print campaigns. The Account Manager will serve as the primary business contact for the client and is responsible for client satisfaction. You are expected to consistently provide excellent customer service to accounts, as well as represent client needs and goals within the organisation to ensure quality. In addition, you will build relationships with clients to encourage new and repeat business opportunities.

Some experience in and an understanding of the print production process is required, but the ability to learn quickly and ask the right questions is equally important. You will be required to plan print jobs and send quote requests to the most appropriate suppliers for every print job. The successful candidate will also be required to work with suppliers.

To be a successful Account Manager you'll need:

• Good spoken and written communication skills
• Strong presentation and negotiation skills
• Confidence, tact and a persuasive manner
• Good organisational and time management skills
• Good 'people skills', for working with a range of colleagues, clients and suppliers
• Must have a commercial outlook
• Experience in print production
• A professional manner
• Good business sense and the ability to work to budgets

This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a word document, depending on which sector you are in, to :-

Head of Packaging recruitment - Greg Nelson -

Head of Print recruitment-Neil Pearson -

Head Paper recruitment - Gary Young -

Board level, account management and all levels of sales vacancies -

Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector, for example a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management, in fact we have over 30 specialist categories. Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or contact you in the near future as soon a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.

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