Senior Account Executive; FTC)

Position: Senior Account Executive (6 Month FTC)
This is a 6 month fixed term employee contract initially, with a likelihood of extension.

JOB PURPOSE
This role is part of our Global Studios team. We create emotive yet conversion-focused ideas, products and campaigns at scale and speed. Our specialty is hyper-personalised, digital communications that change perceptions, shape new behaviours, and shift market share for our clients.

As a Senior Account Executive, you will be joining a team that works on producing creative content at scale at a global level. As a project manager you will be supporting across the account as a whole ensuring consistent and successful delivery of multiple projects, managing workflows and ensuring processes and running smoothly and efficiently. You will be working closely with Designers and the Accounts team within the agency to ensure successful campaign deliveries.

You will be required to manage internal client briefs with the team, plan, assign, review, and contribute to process optimisations ensuring projects are well managed contributing to the overall agency workload in partnership with the rest of the team.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Manage, draft and review client briefs

Ensure client deadlines are met across multiple campaigns and liaising with the Account Director on the team's capacity

Manage workflows across timezones ensuring concise communication and management of workflows between teams

Clearly and effectively distill and transfer client feedback to designers, copywriters

Prioritising workloads for the team, and escalating when needed

Ensure client requirements are met whilst protecting DEPT brand values

Maintain a full understanding of the clients' business, strategies, objectives, brand, audiences, and challenges, advising on the communications solution that best meets their needs, with the objective to becoming a trusted adviser

Build excellent working relationships with internal stakeholders – by attending regular meetings, video conference calls, planning sessions, briefing meetings, and participating in evaluation reviews

Ensure high standards are maintained and add value wherever possible

Ensure success criteria are met and projects are delivered to time and to budget

Maintain a good knowledge of all DEPT products and services and actively promote them to clients

Escalate to senior management with internal and external issues and events that might impact accounts positively or negatively

WHAT YOU BRING

Project management experience in creative or tech marketing

Experience delivering a broad range of multi-channel marketing communications including digital

Extremely organised, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

You are ambitious with the ability to think strategically, contribute something new to the agency

Ability to work within short time frames and meet deadlines with ease and efficiency, successfully managing schedules and priorities

Highly motivated to learn, grow and improve

Personable, approachable demeanor and motivating team player

Moderate understanding of production and interactive processes

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Superb planning and organisation ability

Ability to manage and develop client and supplier relationships

Basic understanding of financials to effectively manage budgets

WE OFFER

A flexible, hybrid/remote working policy

An excellent salary based on experience and equal pay policies

Mental health support, and company sick pay scheme.

15 days paid holiday annually (plus Public Holidays).

Refreshments are provided in the office all week

Enhanced family friendly policies to support new parents.

Social and Cultural Events, plenty of opportunities to connect with colleagues through organised activities and celebrations.

Inspirational Talks, bringing the outside in with…