Serious are looking for a Junior Account Manager (who will become an AM within 6 months).
Serious want someone who is willing to develop an in-depth understanding of a client’s marketplace, their business and their objectives in order to work with agency colleagues to develop the right marketing activity for them.
They will need the ability to work solo and as part of a team. Managing various types of people, maximizing each of their skill sets to complete a project cost effectively, as well as delivering with added value.
Key characteristics: The successful candidate will need to demonstrate integrity, diplomacy, commitment and motivation. They will also need to be articulate, persuasive, numerate, have an eye for detail and the desire to work as part of a team; together with charm — and a sense of fun! Clock watchers need not apply.
Main Responsibilities
• Supporting the Client services team
• Meeting and liaising with clients to discuss and identify their requirements
• Working with agency colleagues to devise campaign plans that meet the client’s brief and budget
• Presenting, alongside agency colleagues the campaign ideas
• Writing briefs including media, creative and research
• Liaising with, and acting as the link between, the client and agency by maintaining regular contact ensuring that communication flows effectively
• Presenting creative work to clients for approval or modification
• Handling budgets, managing campaign costs and invoicing clients
• Writing contact reports
• Monitoring and reporting the effectiveness of campaigns
• Undertaking administration tasks – see below
• Arranging and attending meetings
• Managing client media schedules, including distribution of the correct media artwork to meet publications deadlines
• Complete research for new business meetings
• Manage third party relationships and costs such as printers, production teams and photographers
Admin Responsibilities
• Keeping Job folders up-to-date, both hard and soft copies
• Signing off all client artwork – including managing internal approval
• Manage the development of project central and implement training
• Manage all internal projects including development of the digital presence
• Manage Serious social media such as twitter and facebook accounts
• Maintain “workshop” tools
• Maintain “samples” library
Candidate must
• Speak fluent English
• Have relevant marketing qualifications (preferred only)
• Have previous agency experience (minimum 9 months)
• Drive – due to location
YOU
Jolly good designer person who’s visually fresh, slick, quick and able to handle big projects, concepts and think off and online. Fluency in all the standard design packages a must – as is a better taste in music than the CD.
US
Jolly nice creative agency based in Cobham Surrey with big ambitions. Our lovely clients expect great thinking, gorgeous work and faultless delivery (oh, and sandwiches with the crusts cut off).
CREATIVE ARTWORKER (FREELANCE/TEMP TO PERM)
YOU
Flexible, fast and all-round jolly good egg who is able to interpret designs into brochureware, ads and origami (okay so we’re not exactly overrun with origami projects, but you get the drift). Being deeply organised and with a pin sharp eye for detail is definitely desirable. Knowledge of digital design disciplines is pretty cool too,
US
Jolly nice creative agency based in Cobham Surrey with big ambitions and some lovely clients working in all media.
FREELANCE DIGITAL DESIGNER (FREELANCE/TEMP TO PERM)
YOU
Will be Matt’s right hand. You will know almost as much as him about absolutely everything. In return he will teach you the ways of the Jedi, the Matrix and our server who is called Dave.
US
Jolly nice creative agency based in Cobham Surrey with big ambitions and some lovely clients working in all media.
If you think you’re up to the challenge please send your CV, including rates and availability to chris@seriousideas.com & jennifer@seriousideas.com
Last year we collected an IPA Effectiveness Award.
This year we bagged an ISO 9001* accreditation.
And it’s only February.
So we must be doing SOMETHING right…
ISO 9001 is very big news to a creative agency.
For one, there aren’t many agencies out there with ISO 9001.
For two, it means you can RELAX.
Your projects are in SAFE HANDS.
Our processes have been given a top-to-toe inspection.
By important people from the British Standards Institute.
It doesn’t stop us from being CREATIVE.
In fact, it frees us to focus on what we do best.
Dreaming up and delivering the very best THINKING, within BUDGET and TIMEFRAMES.
The ISO people call it Quality Management.
We call it Doing The Right Thing. Always. Forever. And a Day.
So now you get the BEST of both worlds.
Fabulous ideas from highly ordered, O.C.D. clean freaks.
How lovely is that?
*About ISO9001:2008 Every organisation would like to improve the way it operates, whether that means increasing market share, driving down costs, managing risk more effectively or improving customer satisfaction. A quality management system gives you the framework you need to monitor and improve performance in any area you choose.
ISO 9001 is by far the world’s most established quality framework, currently being used by over ¾ million organisations in 161 countries, and sets the standard not only for quality management systems, but management systems in general.
It helps all kinds of organisations to succeed through improved customer satisfaction, staff motivation and continual improvement.
Many of us – myself included, struggle trying to think of new, fresh and topical articles to write on our blogs which provide value to our audience and keep the flow of content frequent. In many cases sites become so hampered by this that they end up either releasing a stream of self-promotional drivel which interests no-one or even worse let their blog stagnate and go out of date. Adding boring, useless or spammy content as well as adding no content will damage your reputation and ultimately your blog’s ranking in the search engines.
Whilst watching Channel 4 News this evening I noticed a brief appearance of what looked to be a QR code in the titles.
Unfortunatly I wasn’t able to read the code with my phone despite several attempts to rewind the TV and pause it in different places.
It is great to see hidden or rather bonus extras in the programs we watch, it would though be better to make them more accessible.
Not long ago we would expect to video our favorite shows, often they would feature material at the end which we would need to view frame by frame. With the uptake of digital TV and with many people choosing to watch online the ways in which we interact with our programmes is certainly changing – is a mobile element something that could work?
Christmas has been and gone and we realised we didn’t blog about our Christmas card. So to kick us off with a bit of post holiday New Year fun here it is again!
Our good friend Jamie has created a handy set of design templates for anyone developing for iPhone™ or iPod touch™.
iSketchers provides a template offering multiple screen views and application icons, letting you have something you can can print out and sketch some ideas down on when it matters. Handy!
Today we were awarded an Outstanding Achievement for excellence in the design, development and implementation of the Serious Digital Ideas Website from the 2009 IMA (Interactive Media Awards).
Interactive Media Award 2009
We’re focused on delivering high standards to the web and this award confirms again that our Digital Ideas website has met and surpassed the judging criteria, including design, usability, innovation in technical features, standards compliance and content – great news!
You can check out our Award Gallery to see our previous entry last year along with our latest entry here.
We found an interesting article via our updates from netimperative today, the importance of the from field in your email marketing campaigns.
It’s something that is very often overlooked or not given much thought, how many emails do you receive from ‘company‘ with their latest news or offers? Would you be more inclined to read further rather than dismissing it as this weeks junk if you have a more personal link with the sender?
Using an example B2B newsletter, the recipient list was split in half, one half receiving the email from their account manager the other from the company.
The results showed 62% opened and 24% clicked when mail was sent from the account handler, while only 21% opened and 3% clicked when the message was sent out as the company.
