New Business & Marketing Manager London

Accordience brings together the best of five award-winning communications agencies - Grayling, the Red Consultancy, Cirkle, CDR and movement. With 28+ offices across three continents we combine worldwide reach with deep local insights, connecting clients to the audiences that matter most, both globally and locally. We bring this together in integrated, agile teams with specialist knowledge and expertise to help our clients navigate complex challenges reaching consumers, media, stakeholders and investors.

Role Overview

Accordience is seeking an ambitious and proactive New Business & Marketing Manager to drive growth through strategic marketing initiatives and new business development. This role will play a crucial part in coordinating multi-agency pitches, spearheading prospecting activities, tracking performance against targets, and continuously refining our approach and processes.

The day to day

• Track and report on performance: Maintain the central new business tracker, monitoring new business performance and preparing regular reports to inform senior leadership and support decision-making.
• Pitch and proposal development: Be a partner to integrated agency teams when working on group or multi-agency new business, advising proposals and presentations.
• Lead prospecting strategy: Drive proactive prospecting activity both at a group and agency level. Bring fresh thinking to how teams can go to market, develop new products or utilise tools. Actively seek and attend meetings with potential clients, acting as a credible ambassador for the group.
• Systems and research : Ensure teams are regularly tracking marketing and leads through CRM and updating regularly updated with accurate data.
• Marketing content and comms: Oversee Accordience's content output - aiming for one original post and two curated or reposted items per week. Work closely with agency marketing leads to align messaging. Keep Accordience websites up to date with news, insights, and case studies, ensuring content is refreshed monthly and technical maintenance is carried out as needed.
• Internal alignment and knowledge sharing: Facilitate insight sharing across the group, both internal learnings and external market intelligence - to drive smarter working and greater collaboration.
• Process improvement: Lead regular reviews of internal processes, identifying efficiencies and implementing enhancements to improve effectiveness across new business and marketing efforts.

About you

• Proven track record in new business development and marketing coordination, ideally within a multi-agency or consultancy environment.
• Exceptional project management and organizational skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication capabilities.
• Proficiency with CRM platforms, LinkedIn, and preferably website CMS platforms.
• Creative thinker with the ability to develop innovative product and service ideas.
• Strong interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively across multiple teams and stakeholders.

And in return

• Flexible working arrangements, including hybrid working & flexi time and 4pm finishes on a Friday
• 25 days' holiday, increasing by one day every year up to 30 days.
• Additional day of leave on your birthday.
• Gifted time off over Christmas.
• A monthly cash allowance to use on the benefits most important to you. Whether it's subscribing to services like Netflix, dental insurance or gym membership, you'll have the freedom to choose how you enjoy it!
• Enhanced family-friendly policies.
• Free subscription to Calm app.
• New business and employee referral bonuses.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Employee Assistance Programme offering a 24/7 confidential advice line.
• Life assurance.

Our commitment at the Accordience Group is to combine our employees' unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences to build a more diverse and inclusive organisation that represents all of us and the businesses we work with. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and will consider all applicants regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, family or parental status, neurodiversity and disability status. If you need any adjustments during the application process, we're here to help - just let us know.

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