We're Hiring - Job Descriptions
The Lounge is an integrated agency, who specialise in the creation & development of marketing communications solutions for under 30s.
We fundamentally believe in the principle;
"only the market gets the market"
The Lounge’s vision is to be the leading authority on under 35s.
Unlike the competition this is not done through having a cool hair cut and a fancy pair of jeans but by a genuine connection with the target audience through The Lounge’s network’s of under 30s and Influencers.
We work with our networks on all our clients in order to gain valuable and unique insights that inform our strategy and creative solutions - this approach means we get it right first time round.
Account Director Job Description
As Account Director (AD), you’ll be firstly directing the day-to-day client relationship. And on specific pieces of business, you’re also in a position to guide and steer the way that The Lounge works with its clients.
In this role you’re a thinker as well as a doer. Being an Account Director means that 80% of your time needs to be spent on thinking and leading others to make things happen, with only 20% spent on actually doing the doing. You’ll need the ability to step back and to plan, yet also be a focal point in the development of our campaigns. Bring out the best in people around you and you’ll thrive. So begin to develop your leadership style to reflect the needs of the differing personalities around you.
ADs deliver their results through others. So active involvement in the way your team works is key to your career development. Let those around you benefit from your detailed understanding of the marketplace. Your client will especially appreciate your multi-disciplined/strategic understanding of their business. The Lounge will encourage you to own pieces of its business and rely on your powerful relationships with senior client personnel.
PR Director
Want to run the PR division?
Your dream is to start and run your own PR agency. Hell, you may already have a client or two that would move with you if you were to abandon your current ship. However, for a variety of reasons you haven’t taken the leap just yet. It could be financial, it could be that you’re afraid of the investment required; it could be the right time just hasn’t shown itself. Well, the time is now because you’re sick of putting in the long hours and making money for someone else, when you know you could be putting in the hours and effort for your own personal reward and financial gain.
We can offer you the infrastructure, the team, the resource, the new business manager. They just need you to have a drive and hunger to develop and grow a PR practice that can compete with some of the best.
We are looking for someone to develop the PR offering, ensuring new business growth and activity executed with excellence. You will have full P&L responsibility and lead on several high profile clients that range from record labels to cool new consumer technology. As well as run the operation you will provide senior counsel to clients, search out and field new opportunities and build the profile of the business within the market.
You are probably based in London currently and have a strong track record working with some of the best consumer PR consultancies. You are at least Group Account Director level with a keen ambition to run your own business. You are entrepreneurial, hungry for success, understand what it takes to attract the 18-35 year old to a brand/product or idea and have a large appetite for getting things done.
We want you to inspire and lead a team. A background that includes experiential activity, influencer outreach, events and the obvious kick-ass media contacts will help with your success.
Senior Operations Manager
As a Senior Operations Manager, your overall role is to direct the operations business to ensure income is generated either through staffing or insight driven research.
As the leader of this strand of the business, it’s essential that you’re a thinker as well as a doer. A significant percentage of your time needs to be spent on thinking, planning and leading others to make things happen. You’ll need the ability to step back and to plan, yet still be a focal point in the development of the campaigns and work that you deliver. It’s your responsibility to bring out the best in people around you and as a result see your strand of business thrive. It’s essential that you develop a leadership style to reflect the needs of the differing personalities around you.
Our service - Specialist knowledge and insights from our networks needs to be at the heart of everything The Lounge do. As such you’re responsible for ensuring all account teams understand your service offering and are regularly pitching it to their client base, and including it as part of their brief response.
- The success of Operations depends on the quality, engagement and effectiveness of The Lounge Network. It’s your responsibility to develop and implement a plan to ensure the network contains right number and quality of people to meet your business needs. You should have a clear development plan covering recruitment, retention and network growth and manage the implementation of this in partnership with your team
- By developing strong relationships with your contacts you’ll be able to keep abreast of new opportunities, get The Lounge front of mind and as a result leverage better briefs.
- Integrating clients into agency life is a way of building trust and winning confidence. So where possible involve them and help ensure that they understand how we operate by planned agency immersion sessions, etc.
- Every campaign has the potential to teach us something new. You’ll be the one to recognise what learnings each has provided and share the information with the team and the wider agency, as appropriate.
Delivering results
- As the leader of Operations you get to play a key role in agency-wide rewards. It’s important for you to take ownership of profit forecasts, develop suitable strategies and take pride in delivering them. It helps when you make sure team members are being efficient and maximising revenue opportunities.
- Identifying and developing new business opportunities needs to be second nature. You should be able to predict and ultimately maximise new business opportunities for The Lounge. Combine this with an ability to bring your client(s) along with your thinking.
- Working with key people across the agency where necessary, you need to be a hot shot at negotiating fees with clients on a project-by-project basis. Do well and everyone in the agency will benefit.
- Be resourceful. In other words, manage available agency resources in the most efficient way. We’ll also expect your input into short and medium-term forecasts for resourcing requirements.
- Good financial management is critical to our long-term success. Cascade its importance through the rest of the team.
We're only in the fourth week of the new Big Brother and already the celeb factor is all over the media. You can hardly trip over the wrong paving stone and fall into a random newsagents without bumping into an Angry Alexandra getting kicked out or a Sassy Stephanie showing all and sundry just how famous she intends on being. More often than not Evictee No. 1 is gone and forgotten within minutes, but not our Steph, plastered across the front page (and 10 pages inside) of Nuts Magazine - well enjoy it while it lasts.
Britain's obsession with celebrity continues to amaze me more and more - and everyone is obsessed by it; whether they want to love or hate it; and the same can be said for Big Bro - everyone has an opinion, even if it's how much they wish they'd get this rubbish off the tele.
Not a gossip columnist, not a consumer mag, not even Vanessa Feltz, but the Deputy Art Editor of one of the UK's top-end, top-market national newspapers - I couldn't help thinking to myself, "does this mean that Big Brother is becoming more and more acceptable among the so-called ABC1 people in the country or does it mean that The Times is starting aim at a different market and readership?" It could be either; or indeed neither. Maybe they simply needed a journalist and he simply seemed interested- and why not? I suppose just because you write for The Times doesn't mean you're not allowed to enjoy some of the country's so-called 'dumbed-down' forms of entertainment. Art is art is art at the end of the day.
