Job Description

About the role:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Strategic Account Manager to join our Clients and Markets team in Birmingham.

In this role, you will help shape and strengthen the firm’s most important client relationships, driving sustainable growth, deeper engagement and an enhanced client experience through a consistent, insight‑led approach.

Working closely with the Strategic Account Team, the Head of Clients & Markets and senior stakeholders, you will support the development and embedding of our Strategic Account Management approach. You will play a key role in managing both established Strategic Accounts and emerging priority clients within our Horizon Client Programme.

By leveraging client insight, market knowledge and AI‑enabled tools, you will help the firm better understand client needs, identify opportunities to add value and promote a joined‑up, commercially focused approach to managing our most significant client relationships, both in the UK and internationally.

About you:

We’re looking for a Senior Strategic Account Manager to help shape and grow some of the firm’s most important client relationships.

You’ll bring experience in strategic account management within a professional services environment, along with the confidence to work closely with senior stakeholders and build trusted client relationships. With a strong commercial mindset, you’ll enjoy turning insight into action and helping drive sustainable growth and deeper client engagement.

You’ll thrive in a collaborative, fast‑paced environment, balancing multiple priorities while maintaining a strong focus on quality and impact. Excellent communication skills and a proactive, positive approach will be key to success in the role.

Curious and forward‑thinking, you’ll be keen to use data‑driven and AI‑enabled tools to enhance client insight and account planning, supporting new ways of working that add real value to client teams.

What We Can Offer You:

The opportunity to work for a firm that has been recognised as one of best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work® for 26 consecutive years.

Excellent benefits, including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• 25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
• Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
• A generous pension allowance
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
• The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
• Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes
• State of the art offices, with an onsite restaurant
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development

Equal Opportunities:

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.

If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Meg Astley at meg.astley@gowlingwlg.com

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