Senior Account Manager - Maternity Contract - Aylesbury 

As a Senior Account Manager, you will be responsible for the overall operation from enquiry to completion, looking after a large portfolio of clients at any one time and managing office staff (Account Co-Ordinator and Administrator), as well as on-site teams.

Location: Aylesbury (must have your own vehicle) 

Contract: 12 Months Maternity contract

Hours: 9am-5pm

Salary: £40,000

Duties:

Manage and lead your team of Account Co-Ordinator and Administrator as well as:

- Over seeing projects and ad-hoc work of your team and suggest ways of making improvements
- Be responsible for the line management, support and training of your team members including management of annual leave, working from home, sickness, one to ones, performance development reviews, site visits to all jobs in accordance with company policies and ensuring HR platforms up to date.
- Make sure financial forecasting documents and any reports (such as an enquiry log and Tour News document) are kept consistently up to date
- Work alongside other Senior Account Manager who will be your buddy re holiday and cover

Negotiating quoting and budget processes with clients and suppliers to ensure budgets and profit margins are adhered to. Looking at the PandL’s for your projects in order to help with budget management, whilst having an understanding of SAP finance system.

Manage all contact with our clients from enquiry to completion:

- Preparing quotations, presentations, menus and site plans for a variety of different events through Canva and Microsoft programmes. Provide clear costing''s spreadsheets whilst keeping up to date with pricing and trends to remain competitive within our market, by having regular meetings with suppliers
- Overseeing the booking of staffing on necessary staffing levels per project
- Organising and managing all logistics (such as scheduling necessary equipment, booking trucking, carnet manifests, accommodation, and any other operational and administrative event related task

Regularly attend and organise international events, networking events, menu tastings and site visits (Potentially out of hours as necessary),

Requirements:

- Experience in managing a team
- Confident in using Microsoft packages and SAP
- Full UK driving license.

If you would be interested, please apply or call Corinne at Pertemps.