Account Executive - London, United Kingdom - Mindshare

Mindshare

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

Role:

Account ExecutiveDepartment/Team***:

***Connections Planning
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Role Objective**We are looking for an enthusiastic, creative, curious Account Executive to join the Unilever and Yorkshire Building Society teams.

Unilever is one of the world's leading FMCG firms and one of the most powerful FMCG brands in the UK, with an incredibly impressive portfolio of household names.

The company's product portfolio comprises food products, beauty, and personal care products, home care products, nutrition and ice-cream. They have a long-standing heritage of putting their customers at the heart of everything they do - and leading with the principles of driving positive change through their brands

As one of the biggest spenders in the category across TV, your role will be supporting the UL planning team in shaping and creating successful campaigns for their Personal Care products.

We work closely with our Investment and Live Planning teams to ensure our strategies & media-mix are optimised to drive high volumes of quotes & sales with customers.

You will be working to understand audience behaviours, exploring emerging category trends and the competitive landscape; these are essential in this competitive vertical.

Yorkshire Building Society, established in Yorkshire in its humble beginning, is now one of the largest building societies in the UK.

Known not only for their product excellence and rates, across Savings and Mortgages - YBS continue to keep a strong anchoring to their mission to help communities.

Their key media channels are performance based digital channels - giving you a great opportunity to learn about Social, Display and PPC.

About the role

The Connections Planning team plays a crucial role in designing the audiences, connections, content and measurement that deliver the most innovative and effective solutions to clients.

To do this requires a team of people with a high degree of knowledge of the UK media market and a deep understanding of the role of technology in driving opportunities to target audiences, its impact on the connections and content that will engage people, and how media can be measured and optimised.

Members of the team understand consumer trends and are able to translate insights and strategic direction into actionable media solutions.

They interact with a wide range of other teams including Intelligence and Strategic Planning, the specialist channel teams that execute the media, and the Live Planning team that optimises across all media channels.

Working closely with and supporting Connections Planners along with Strategic planning and Client Leadership makes up a large proportion of an Account Executives' time and means you will have the opportunity to learn how Mindshare approaches the definition and design of the audiences, connections, content, and measurement that comprise our media solutions.

The bulk of your time will be spent supporting the team in planning exciting, award-winning campaigns as well as working with channel specialists to make those plans a reality.

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About you
Prior media/marketing experience is not a pre-requisite.

A combination of "hands-on" experience and a structured training programme means Account Executives gain a comprehensive knowledge of how a media agency business operates and an understanding that is the cornerstone of a successful career in the media industry.

Required key skills & behaviours:

Enthusiastic and positive with a genuine interest in a career in marketing and advertising
Enthusiastic, reliable and excellent team player
Inquisitive and curious with a drive to really get under the skin of our client's marketing
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong organisation skills incl. time and project management
High level of comfort using data both small and large datasets
The ability to analyse data to discover insights
Comfortable working in teams and will be able to proactively engage and collaborate with peers
Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint and Word

What we can offer

you

A strong salary commensurate and inline with relevant experience
25 days annual leave and your birthday day off
Ongoing internal and external training opportunities
Flexible working
The opportunity to attend industry conferences and awards nights
Career and personal progression
Private Healthcare
Excellent pension matching structure

About Mindshare

Mindshare is a leading global marketing and media services network with billings in excess of £23billion worldwide. We work with some of the most famous businesses and brands in the UK such as Unilever, Ford, KFC, Marks & Spencer, Volvo and TK Maxx. The Mindshare network consists of 116 offices across 86 countries throughout the USA, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific; each dedicated to forging competitive marketing advantage for businesses and their brands.

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