VAN is recruiting for Bristol-based campaign managers.
What does VAN do?
- We seed great viral ads to great sites so people can enjoy and share them.
- We work with some of the best ad agencies in the world, generating views and sharing for their brand campaigns, especially their YouTube videos. We’re based in Bristol and London UK.
- We’re growing fast, and we offer an outstanding opportunity for graduates or people who are starting their career in marketing, advertising and digital media. It’s a great learning environment.
What’s the job?
This is an awesome way to get started in the industry. You get to work with great clients and great content, and you’ll pick up key skills in account management, pitching, planning, media buying and reporting. We hope you’ll stick around for a couple of years, but we’ll train you in ways that give you a great preparation to step up to your next position.
The role has a clear structure, with three key responsibilities:
- Supporting our sales team by preparing proposals for clients.
- Setting up campaigns and making media bookings with our network of publishers.
- Account management and reporting to our clients.
In detail…
Supporting our sales team
Our London-based sales team deal with the majority of client meetings, and pitching.
You’ll need to write proposal documents to support them. These need to be turned around quickly and accurately, and be sensitive to the client’s specific needs.
You will not be required to cold sell in this role, but you will need to work with the rest of the team to achieve the monthly sales target.
You will need to develop and close warm leads that come in directly by phone or email.
Developing account relationships and retaining clients by providing consistently good service is essential for sales.
Campaign Operations (daily)
It’s critical that we meet our promises to clients, getting them the views they need in the agreed timeframe.
You’ll need to plan and book media placements for campaigns, working with the rest of the team to make sure that we deliver on all client campaigns. The campaign needs to be monitored for progress throughout, and action taken to resolve any issues.
We report progress to clients using a dashboard system during the campaign then delivering a final report at the end. You’ll need to ensure the dashboard is up to date, and produce the final report (we have standard formats for doing this).
Where necessary, you’ll need to develop and maintain relationships with publishers directly to make sure that campaigns meet their targets.
Client handling & sales (daily)
Account management duties, including:
- Responding to client requests by phone and email.
- Maintaining the agency-client relationship throughout campaigns.
- Reporting and following up on campaigns
- Developing relationships to drive repeat business.
Additional responsibilities
Occasionally you’ll need to assisting with marketing, including prep of campaign case studies.
We improve the product and service continuously, looking for more efficiency and better results for our clients. You’ll need to contribute to this & work quickly to adopt changes and improvements.
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What you’re like
This is a job for people who:
- Are comfortable with numbers, especially straightforward arithmetic.
- Enjoy talking to people by phone and email to develop relationships.
- Work hard (cliche, but true here). It’s a job where you need to get your tasks done to time. It can also be necessary to check campaign progress out of office hours (using online systems).
- Have solid writing skills: we don’t have time to check your spelling etc, and we’re working with clients who will judge us negatively if you can’t write clearly and accurately.
The type of work is fairly consistent and suits someone who is happy to do similar tasks on a daily basis. That said, the job is exciting: new opportunities come up, new proposals need to be done, we get sales wins and awesome content to seed, and campaigns need to get their views.
You will definitely need:
- A good degree. Everybody here has proven themselves.
- A genuine desire to get stuck into work and take responsibility.
- Previous work experience, this can be anything dealing with people or a task based role. It doesn’t have to be relevant to marketing or online, but we don’t have time to teach you the most basic professional and get-things-done skills.
Salary and progression
- Within the role, you can progress from ‘novice’ to ‘ninja’. This would take a couple of years. A novice gets paid £16.8k, and a ninja would get around £25k.
- There’s healthy profit share on top for all staff (linked to company performance), and a success club (team rewards for making monthly sales target).
- There’s a wide range of progression opportunities when it’s time to move on from this role. There may be opportunities to move up within VAN taking management responsibility for aspects of sales or operations, or moving elsewhere within the Team Rubber group. It’s also a great stepping stone into agencies or client-side marketing, giving a solid grounding in account management, media planning and buying, and campaign operations.
Or get the lowdown on the job with these words from Katrina (who is leaving VAN for a role running operations elsewhere).
Interested? Feel free to read more, but to apply mail Ally with a covering letter outlining why you think you are suitable for the position and where your strengths lie, along with a 2 page CV.
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