E-commerce Senior Account Manager
- company
- Soar With Us
- location
- Manchester, United Kingdom (remote)
- work mode
- remote
- posted
- 13 May
- ### Description
- E-commerce Senior Account Manager
- **Function:** Performance Creative | Account Leadership | Pod Management
- **Reports to:** Account Director
- **Location:** Remote-first (1 days per month in-office - Hambi Media HQ, Oval, London)
- **Compensation:** £40,000 – £50,000 + Bonus + Benefits + 27 Days Holiday
- ### About the Soar Group
- The Soar Group is one of the UK’s fastest-growing performance agency groups, home to three specialist agencies. On the inside, we work as one:
- Hambi Media: Performance creative agency for Meta, delivering High Production, UGC, and Static ads. The UK’s largest performance creative division in the UK.
- For You Advertising: The UK’s #1 independent TikTok agency, specialising in TikTok paid media, TikTok Shop, and creator-led content at scale.
- Soar With Us: Paid social and paid search, managing media buying and growth strategy across the group’s client portfolio.
- Together, the group manages over £100M in ad spend, works with category-leading D2C brands, and operates the UK’s largest Creative Strategy department with design, production, strategy, and UGC all under one roof.
- ### What Sets Us Apart
- Nominated for Meta’s Creative Diversity Award 2025, the only independent agency recognised.
- Highest independent agency spend on Meta in 2025.
- Official TikTok Agency Partner, Creative Partner, and one of the only TikTok Shop Partners across UK and US.
- Two production studios (London and Manchester)
- Creators of D2C Diaries, one of the UK’s leading eCommerce podcasts.
- ### Requirements
- We are looking for someone deeply embedded in the **DTC/ecommerce world**.
- You understand:
- Performance creative
- Paid social growth
- E-commerce launch cycles
- Creative testing velocity
- Scaling consumer brands
- Retention and revenue conversations
- How fast-moving founders operate
- You’ve likely worked with e-commerce brands before and know the pace, pressure, and expectations that come with scaling them.
- This role is for someone who can confidently lead high-growth DTC accounts while managing and elevating a pod of Account Managers underneath them.
- **Client & Commercial Leadership:**
- Own senior relationships across larger, higher-impact accounts
- Lead strategic client conversations, performance reviews and planning
- Guide clients through launches, pivots and scale moments
- Spot upsell, retention and growth opportunities
- **Pod & People Management:**
- Line-manage Account Managers within your pod
- Coach AMs on communication, organisation and client ownership
- Raise delivery standards across accounts and workflows
- Support hiring, onboarding and development of AMs
- **Delivery & Quality Control:**
- Oversee UGC and creative workflows across the pod
- Ensure launches are planned, resourced and executed cleanly
- Act as escalation point for delivery or client risk
- Maintain consistency across processes and client experience
- **What you bring:**
- 4+ years’ experience in agency account management
- Proven experience managing or mentoring Account Managers
- Strong understanding of performance creative, UGC and launch cycles
- Confidence running senior client conversations independently
- Commercial awareness — retention, margin, and growth matter to you
- Calm authority — clients and teams trust your judgment
- **Who you are:**
- A true manager - you enjoy leading people, not just accounts
- Standards-driven - you care about quality and consistency
- Accountable - you own outcomes across your pod
- Structured and decisive - you bring order and clarity
- A role model - AMs learn by watching how you operate
- ### Benefits
- Client Portfolio: Work with a diverse range of D2C and e-commerce brands, spanning multiple niches and continents.
- Exceptional Team: Collaborate with a world-class team of motivated and high-performing individuals.
- Career Growth: Enjoy opportunities for rapid career progression in a fast-growing agency.
- Work-Life Balance: 27 days paid holiday (plus your birthday off), hybrid working, and flexibility to work abroad for up to 30 days.
- Comprehensive
Benefits
- Private health and dental insurance, company pension scheme, and structured training programmes.
- Remote working with 1 day a month in London Head Office.