Senior Account Manager

We are now looking for two Senior Account Managers to join our Advertising team! You will have the opportunity to work with big clients on complex campaigns across all Guardian products, setting a high standard and expertise across the solutions team.
About the Roles

• Manage and provide the best responses to briefs across all Guardian products, ensuring high-quality solutions for clients.
• Build and maintain relationships with publishing and partnership teams to enhance collaboration so we can provide the best responses and post-sales service (including PCAs).
• Host innovative and effective internal briefing sessions.
• Coordinate with internal ad ops and project management teams to ensure smooth campaign execution.
• A primary revenue driver, responsible for growing client spend while maintaining accurate financial reporting and predictive forecasting.

About You

• Proven customer-facing experience in advertising sales, agency, digital, marketing, product, or communications.
• Experience managing and pitching complex advertising campaigns.
• Are a strategic thinker with a proven ability to identify and lead initiatives to drive business performance.
• Demonstrates autonomy, proactive troubleshooting and problem-solving skills to address challenges effectively.

We actively encourage applications from groups traditionally underrepresented in the UK media.
We operate in a hybrid environment working 3 days a week from our offices in Kings Cross and 2 days a week remotely.
Guardian News and Media is proud to be a London Living wage employer. The minimum salary for any full-time role within the organisation is £30,000 per annum. Salary ranges are dependent on skills and experience.
We value and respect all differences (seen and unseen) in all people. We aspire to have inclusive working experiences and an environment that reflects the audience we serve, where our people have equal access to career development opportunities, their voices are heard and can contribute to our future. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Many of our staff work flexibly and we will consider all requests for flexible working arrangements.
All roles at the Guardian are open for everybody to apply. It is important to us that you feel supported and comfortable throughout your recruitment process, in order to perform your best. Please let us know if there are any changes we could make to help your application, this includes providing documents in accessible formats or personalising the process to better support your needs. Please contact Karen on karen.walter@theguardian,com to discuss further so we can work with you to support you through your application.
How to Apply
Please upload a copy of your latest CV. You don’t need to provide a covering letter but we would like you to share your responses to the following two questions:

• Tell us about your best sales achievement or project that you have worked on.
• Tell us about a challenging client or campaign problem and how you went about solving it.

Don’t worry we’re not looking for an essay response, we’d like you to share roughly a paragraph (the suggested word count is 100-200 words per paragraph) for each question as part of the application process. Please provide your responses to our questions on one document and upload it along with your CV as part of your application
The closing date for applications is 6pm, Monday 26th October 2026.
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