Account Executive/Senior Account Executive
Guildford (Hybrid)
£25k-£28k
You’ll need excellent writing skills, to be great at researching and enjoy getting to grips with complex topics. Building relationships with media is a must and you will want to achieve outstanding results. We also want to tap your creative instincts to help us create brilliant, original and award-winning marketing ideas. And when life gets a bit more back to normal, you will be attending in-person networking events in London, as well as going on occasional international business trips with colleagues.
Written Work
* Writing press releases, articles, social media content and other materials requiring only minimal amendments by senior colleagues and clients.
* Proofreading all written materials carefully before submitting them to senior colleagues.
Media Skills
* Possessing an understanding of how the media works in areas relevant to the company and our clients.
* Building relationships with journalists, with the support of senior colleagues.
* Fully managing the process of press release distribution, to include list-building.
* Helping research and identify forward feature and other media opportunities for clients.
* Pitching stories to journalists.
* Handling incoming media enquiries.
* Demonstrating confidence and professionalism in journalist discussions.
* Assisting in the organisation of media events, such as interviews, photo calls and press conferences.
Marketing Content
* Devising, creating and implementing marketing content, as directed.
* Developing an understanding of content marketing strategies and programmes. Meetings
* Participating actively in meetings with colleagues, clients, journalists and other parties.
* Sharing responsibility for discussing/presenting information in client meetings and presentations.
* Sharing responsibility for discussing/presenting information in new business presentations.
* Helping prepare materials and information for meetings.
General
* Liaising with clients in a confident and professional manner, establishing and maintaining good working relationships.
* Undertaking desk research for client programmes and new business pitches.
* Possessing the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and prioritise work appropriately.
* Contributing to social media activities of the company and its clients.
required qualities
* The role requires a self-confident individual, at ease with liaising with client contacts and busy journalists.
* You need to be highly organised with the ability to keep on top of multiple activities simultaneously.
* You must be highly adaptable to change and short notice client requests, with the ability to remain calm and think clearly under time pressure.
* You must enjoy a challenge and be ambitious to achieve outstanding results.
* You must possess strong writing skills in all the types of work detailed above.
* You must be team-oriented and enjoy delivering great results through collaboration.
* You must possess excellent research skills and enjoy mastering sometimes complex topics.
* In normal times, you must be able and eager to travel internationally on business