Account Manager

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Account Manager
(maternity cover)

Join our Client Services team and help manage global accounts across a wide range of industries.

Full-time · Fixed term contract · Amsterdam

About the job

As an Account Manager, you’ll be integral to delivering creative excellence for our clients – from ambitious start-ups to global market leaders, across sectors including FMCG, hospitality, wellness and technology.

We’re looking for a proactive, driven account handler with experience working on projects from concept through to execution within a creative agency environment. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a genuine passion and eye for design to broaden their skills across multiple disciplines while working on incredible projects for global brands.

You’ll partner closely with our Creative and Associate Directors to independently lead the day-to-day relationships on some of our key accounts.

Please note, this is a maternity cover contract running from January to October 2026, for a minimum of four days a week.

About you

Your primary responsibilities will be:

  • Leading client relationships across project workstreams – building strong partnerships and ensuring our work consistently exceeds expectations

  • Delivering multi-faceted projects with our team of creatives, designers and strategists, managing concurrent workstreams to stay on time, on budget, and aligned with our principles of creative excellence

  • Owning the commercials for your workstreams, including budgeting, tracking, forecasting and profitability reporting

  • Providing weekly reporting to the Business Director on revenue, pipeline and potential prospects

Who we'd like to find

Since 2019, we’ve grown from only four to over 16 by finding the right people – people that don’t only fit right in to our studio culture, but bring something incredible to it. 

Required skills and experience:

  • Previous experience in client services or project management within a creative consultancy or design agency

  • A proactive mindset, a drive to take on new challenges, and a desire to learn

  • Diligence and attention to detail for all aspects of your work

  • A true passion and interest in design and creative

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including proven ability in crafting proposals

  • A collaborative team player with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to manage up when needed

  • Commercial acumen and understanding of the financial processes and how these contribute to account success

  • Confidence working across multiple projects simultaneously with a varied creative team

  • The ability to work from our Amsterdam studio at least three days a week

Knowledge of:

  • Google Workspace

  • Microsoft Office

  • Adobe Creative Suite

  • Figma

  • Slack

What we offer

People mean the world to us. That includes looking after our own, with things like:

  • Global clients and world-class work

  • A competitive salary

  • A strong bonus and benefits package, reflecting both company and personal performance

  • Training, support and personal career development

  • A generous company pension

  • A unique, inspiring working environment filled with incredible, like minded people

Apply for the job

Do you want to join our team as our new Account Manager? Then we'd love to hear about you!

We’re forpeople, an independent creative agency, working globally from an old pickle factory in London and a former warehouse in Amsterdam.

Our team of over 100 weaves together a diverse range of skills: from graphic, product, spatial and interaction design to moving image, writing, research and strategy.

Without knowing it, you’ve probably seen or experienced something we’ve had a hand in. Over the last 20 years, we’ve quietly shaped the future of some of the world’s most well-known brands as well as creating others you’ll soon get to discover.

Our work is wide-reaching, from defining brand visions to building identities and designing experiences. Yet everything we do is born from a simple philosophy – we feel, think and do for people.

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