Senior Account Manager

We’re Live & Breathe, an independent Creative Experience and Commerce agency with a mission to connect brands with people in powerful, relevant, and tangible ways. Rooted in curiosity and driven by craft, we pride ourselves on creating standout work across CX, activation, shopper, retail, digital and experiential. Our culture is shaped by four key values: Ambitious, Tenacious, Curious and Conscientious.

We work with some of the world’s biggest and most dynamic brands, and we’re proud of the long-standing client partnerships we’ve built.

Overview of role

We are looking for a Senior Account Manager on a fixed term or freelance basis, supporting the team on global and regional accounts. The work is varied from global shopper toolkits, brand strategy, design execution and production.

As Senior Account Manager you will ensure each project is managed effectively, efficiently and profitably; building up relationships with clients and all key stakeholders, ensuring the work delivers against our internal benchmarks.

This role can be based wither in Leeds or London with the requirement for a minimum of 1 day within either office a week. You will work within a team alongside an Account Director and a Senior Account Executive to support with the daily management of the accounts. There may be a requirement for overseas travels depending on the client and projects at the time.

Key responsibilities

• Drives efficient financial processes, managing estimates, contracts, budgets, and profitability with confidence and accuracy.
• Identifies and champions growth opportunities through integrated thinking, market insight, and proactive value creation.
• Builds trusted client partnerships, applying strategic thinking, research, and strong communication to guide and influence outcomes.
• Delivers strong creative leadership, writing effective briefs, evaluating ideas, and ensuring high-quality, strategically aligned creative output.
• Leads teams and clients with clarity and collaboration, motivating others and ensuring high-quality delivery across all projects.
• Ensures smooth, timely project delivery through strong process management, cross-team coordination, and attention to detail.

Required skills and experience

• Proven experience as a Senior Account Manager in a creative agency
• Understanding of brand growth strategies
• Shopper Marketing, eCommerce and promotional experience a must
• Experience of developing an account and growing the business
• Passion for generating bright ideas and delivering work that sells
• Ability to think beyond execution and to offer solutions rather than problems
• Experience and success establishing and maintaining effective working relations with internal and external stakeholders

Why join Live & Breathe?

At Live & Breathe, you’ll have the opportunity to work on exciting projects for big brands, collaborate with talented colleagues, and grow your skills and experience. Join us and help create work that inspires and delivers results.

And finally…

Alongside a competitive salary you will get the following benefits:

• 25 Days holiday + bank holidays

• Truly flexible working

• Birthday as holiday

• Loyalty holiday scheme

• Wellbeing allowance

• Finish Early Fridays

Live and Breathe value and embrace people from all backgrounds and are committed to attracting and retaining diverse talent.