Senior Account Manager

Senior Account Manager

Overview

Cornerstone is on the lookout for a highly motivated and experienced senior account manager to join our growing agency.

Known for our passion for the industry, ability to achieve the impossible and provide outstanding work, client satisfaction and results, we are looking to recruit an account manager that is highly motivated, a strong communicator and planner, an excellent people person and up for taking on new and demanding challenges.

The role will involve the management of multiple deadlines and projects, building client relationships, as well as providing the ability to multi-task whilst maintaining outstanding levels of attention to detail for clients and their campaigns.

The ideal candidate should have at least four years’ experience within a marketing or agency role, be looking to develop their career in a growing agency, be passionate about the job and be a strong and confident planner and marketing strategist.

Key Skills

  • Strategic thinker – able to take complex client briefs and convert them into objective-driven, creative solutions for clients
  • Time management and planning – ensuring multiple projects are completed in a polished and streamlined manner within deadlines, ensuring accurate milestone achievement
  • Detail orientated – A keen eye for detail, brand identity, consistency and creativity
  • A marketer – Marketing trained to a degree or CIM level, with practical experience of implementing solid marketing strategy and tactics across accounts
  • Commercially aware – Ensuring accurate quoting, estimations and budget management for client projects
  • Fully integrated – Strong understanding of the full marketing mix, spanning creative, digital, PR and web
  • Briefing and brief taking – interpreting client requests and transforming those into a solid and well thought through internal brief
  • Communication – A strong communicator both verbally and written, able to articulate requirements, outcomes and goals succinctly and effectively
  • Planning – A natural planner and organiser both of your own projects and the teams and clients you work with
  • Pitching, presenting and account development


Key Responsibilities

  • Key account management – managing a range of key accounts and complex retainers across diverse sectors
  • Retainer clients – Management of key client retainers, ensuring monthly delivery of all required activities across our departments
  • Project management – ad hoc project management for a variety of clients across industries to client brief and deadlines
  • Strategy – Marketing strategy for your allocated clients, working with our lead strategist to form activities and KPIs for yearly client planners
  • Planning – Planning of projects, teams and retainers ensuring milestone achievement, objective achievement and project delivery
  • Client satisfaction – ensuring client satisfaction throughout your project delivery

Salary and Benefits

  • Salary DOE
  • Healthcare insurance
  • Annual bonus
  • Part remote working available (2-4 days remote per week)




Account Manager

Account Manager

Overview

Cornerstone is on the lookout for a highly motivated and experienced account manager to join our growing agency.

Known for our passion for the industry, ability to achieve the impossible and provide outstanding work, client satisfaction and results, we are looking to recruit an account manager that is highly motivated, a strong communicator and planner, an excellent people person and up for taking on new and demanding challenges.

The role will involve the management of multiple deadlines and projects, building client relationships, as well as providing the ability to multi-task whilst maintaining outstanding levels of attention to detail for clients and their campaigns.

The ideal candidate should have at least three years’ experience within a marketing or agency role, be looking to develop their career in a growing agency, be passionate about the job and be a strong and confident planner and marketing strategist.

Key Skills

  • Time management and planning – ensuring multiple projects are completed in a polished and streamlined manner within deadlines, ensuring accurate milestone achievement
  • Detail Orientated – A keen eye for detail, brand identity, consistency and creativity
  • A Marketer – Marketing trained to a degree or CIM level, with practical experience of implementing solid marketing strategy and tactics across accounts
  • Commercially Aware – Ensuring accurate quoting and estimations for client projects
  • Fully Integrated – Strong understanding of the full marketing mix spanning creative, digital, PR and web
  • Briefing and brief taking – interpreting client requests and transforming those into a solid and well thought through internal brief
  • Communication – A strong communicator both verbally and written, able to articulate requirements, outcomes and goals succinctly and effectively
  • Planning – A natural planner and organiser both of your own projects and the teams and clients you work with


Key Responsibilities

  • Retainer clients – Management of key client retainers, ensuring monthly delivery of all required activities across our departments
  • Project management – ad hoc project management for a variety of clients across industries to client brief and deadlines
  • Strategy – Marketing strategy for your allocated clients, working with our lead strategist to form objective-driven activities for yearly client planners
  • Planning – Planning of projects, teams and retainers ensuring milestone achievement and project delivery
  • Client satisfaction – ensuring client satisfaction throughout your project delivery

Salary and Benefits

  • Salary DOE
  • Healthcare insurance
  • Annual bonus
  • Part remote working available (1-3 days remote per week)




Senior Digital Marketer

Senior Digital Marketer

Overview

We are looking for highly motivated senior digital marketer to be part of a team leading the many digital projects and campaigns we deliver for our wide and varying range of clients across the UK.

Reporting to the Head of Digital, the ideal candidate will have 5+ years’ practical agency experience in digital strategy, social media marketing, SEO, PPC, email marketing and analytics platforms, and will have the ability to work both independently on projects as well as working within a team.

This is an excellent opportunity for a well-rounded digital marketer to work across a wide range of industries and progress their career in a growing agency.

You will be responsible for the research, planning, strategy and implementation of client digital projects and campaigns of varying scale and sizes, showcasing solid results and ROI for our clients and agency through digital reporting and analytics summaries.

As a fast-growing agency, there is also opportunity for leadership progression within the role so experience of mentorship and management of small teams would be desirable.

Key Skills

  • Digital strategy creation and roll out
  • Social media management
  • Robust technical SEO skills
  • Keyword research
  • Knowledge of HTML and CSS
  • PPC; especially Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, and Spotify
  • Email marketing and automation
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Problem solving
  • Excellent written and verbal communication
  • Expert knowledge of Hootsuite
  • Expert knowledge of Google Ads and Meta Ads
  • Expert knowledge of Google Search Console, Google Analytics, and WordPress
  • Expert knowledge of Campaign Monitor and/or Mailchimp
  • Expert knowledge of Screaming Frog and SEM Rush
  • Content writing and entry


Key Responsibilities

  • Overseeing junior accounts and ensuring digital activity is in line with strategic direction and goals
  • Delivery, analysis and refinement of multi-channel digital campaigns and ongoing strategies
  • Mentoring junior account managers on digital processes and best practice
  • Day-to-day social media management for technical B2B and FMCG clients
  • Monitoring the technical health of a wide range of websites, proactively implementing solutions to increase site health
  • Tracking and reporting keyword rankings, pivoting strategies and keyword targeting where required
  • Day-to-day PPC management
  • Creation and implementation of email marketing and automation strategies
  • Content writing for blogs, email, social and other digital channels for a wide range of purposes and objectives
  • Monthly digital reporting
  • Support the business development team in forming new business proposals for digital opportunities

Salary and Benefits

  • Salary DOE
  • Healthcare insurance
  • Annual bonus
  • Part remote working available (Up to 3 days remote per week)
  • Regular, funded team social events
  • Generous training and development budgets
  • Real career progression
  • Growing and stable agency




Senior PHP Developer

Senior PHP Developer

Overview

Cornerstone is a fully integrated marketing agency based in the Northwest, with year-on-year growth of 30-40% and over 16 years of success and stability in the sector.

Currently in the process of further expanding our web services offering, we’re on the lookout for a motivated senior PHP developer to work across a variety of exciting PHP web projects using Laravel and WordPress.

The appointed candidate will have at least five years industry experience, and be involved in carefully crafting beautifully developed, structured websites and web applications that not only look and function exceptionally well, but add real value to our clients’ businesses.

This is a superb opportunity to join a happy, motivated and passionate team of experts within their field, whilst joining us on our journey of growth, development and success across our targeted sectors.

Key Skills

  • Fully versed in HTML, CSS, PHP, W3C standards and best coding practices and standards
  • Laravel development
  • Bespoke WordPress development (inc., Full Site Editor and React)
  • API development & integrations
  • Git setup, version control and management
  • Vanilla JavaScript, Livewire, and React (Vue.js also an advantage)
  • Understanding of Cloud Computing (AWS, GCP or Azure)
  • Writing technical documentation
  • Ability to work as part of a team, and individually where necessary
  • Understanding of server structures from a web development perspective such as plesk, cpanel or similar
  • Problem solving and debugging
  • Commercial solutions and specification creation
  • Client-facing and ability to problem solve in a busy environment


Key Responsibilities

  • Heavy focus on backend development and database structures
  • General understanding and capability with frontend technologies (including Livewire and React)
  • Expert in Laravel and WordPress builds, being able to craft either or both to meet client specifications
  • Mentoring of junior team members and supporting our technical lead in technical solutions
  • Quality checks and verification of code base across our teams
  • Data security of solutions and integrations into payment gateways and third party systems
  • API development and integrations with multiple third party systems across Laravel and WordPress builds
  • Supporting our teams in resolving technical issues and queries spanning our sites
  • Overseeing our server and hosting solutions and forming recommendations and improvements where suitable to support the company’s growth ambitions
  • Support in the estimating, specifying and technical solutions for all new incoming projects
  • Work with the team to develop skills, capabilities and processes
  • Take a lead on larger and complex builds spanning industries and project types

Salary and Benefits

  • Healthcare insurance
  • Annual bonus scheme
  • Hefty training budget
  • Hybrid working available
  • Regular team socials events
  • Pension scheme
  • Flexible working
  • Modern bespoke office space makes for a stunning place to collaborate
  • Excellent tech, training and support
  • True investment from management in your career and wellbeing
  • Hybrid Role Expected 2 days in the office
  • Salary: Highly competitive DOE