Sustainability Account Executive - London, United Kingdom - Design Portfolio

Description

The role:


Sustainability Account Executive:
a junior role at the heart of our fast-developing business
Ever Sustainable, Design Portfolio's in-house sustainability consultancy, is seeking an enthusiastic and bright-minded person to join our growing Sustainability team, with a can-do attitude, a strong focus on customer service and an excellent attention to detail


In short:
Intelligent, articulate, ambitious and accurate.

The principal role will be providing support to our sustainability and client services teams in the smooth administration, research and production of our wide-ranging sustainability projects.

As a secondary point of contact to our clients, the Account Executive helps provide administrative and project support to designated projects on a day-to-day basis.

Projects are wide ranging and include sustainability consultancy projects, as well as the production of sustainability reports.


Main responsibilities

• Provide a second point of contact for clients, with an opportunity to progress to running smaller client projects independently (under guidance from a Client Services Director (CSD)/Account Director (AD)/Account Manager (AM)/Sustainability lead (SL)).
• Monitor and update project administration on specific client projects in addition to providing ad hoc administrative support to the sustainability and client services teams.
• Creation of client research notes, background research into sustainabilityrelated topics and fields, and ability to use this information to inform the sustainability team.
• Attendance at workshops, working sessions and meetings (more common for sustainability projects); notetaking, action management and agenda ownership.
• Assist with the update of the company's online management information system to help monitor client information and plan and deliver resource across projects.
• Update timetables in line with key milestones and rebook resource accordingly. Develop an understanding of timetables to enable the creation of first draft timetables.
• Work with the CSD/AD/SAM/AM/SL to ensure swift delivery of accurate cost estimates to the client, assisting with management of any purchase order requirements and subsequent invoicing, in addition to monitoring of utilised resource against budget.
• Update weekly production agendas and attendance at weekly production meetings.
• Liaising with thirdparty suppliers, where required.
• Check in design/contentrelated client amends and other proofing tasks throughout the proofing process, to ensure accuracy, consistency and quality at all stages.
• In line with above, working on ad hoc implementation of amends via our digital CMS and/or corporate reporting remote authoring system.
• Provide support to the wider business on research and internal projects to help increase your knowledge of our business, our clients and our processes.

Requirements:

- no previous experience in sustainability is needed, however we would like to see a passion for the topic and interest in learning more;
- has a can-do attitude, is organised and is a highly proactive administrator;
- has an in-depth knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint;
- is aware of the importance of client/customer relationships;
- has excellent attention to detail; and
- is able to work from home (due to hybrid working).


Benefits

• We operate a flexible approach to hybrid working which allows our team to combine working in the office with working from home. We work with our team members to ensure they have the right equipment, set up and support to successfully work from home, from onboarding and throughout their careers at Design Portfolio.
• We also operate a core hours policy whereby there are set times when everyone must be working onsite in the office/at home/out visiting clients/suppliers and the rest of the working hours are flexible, so employees can log on to work wherever they are and whenever they are able to work.
• Training and mentoring programme
• 31.5 days' annual holiday entitlement includes birthday day off, 2 days (16 hours) of personal time and Christmas office shutdown plus all bank holidays
• Charity/volunteering day incentive
• Workplace pension scheme
• Annual eye test

• Profit share scheme

• Private health cover
• Free income protection
• Perkbox freebies and discounts
• Subsidised health and wellbeing membership
• Cycle to work scheme
• Benefits eligible after sixmonth probationary period.

About us
At Design Portfolio, we empower companies to tell the stories that matter.

We champion integrated communication with ESG at its core, through the advice we give, the way we work and the services we deliver.

Digital communications

• Websites
• Video & animation
• Campaigns

Corporate communications

• Reporting
• Brand
• Presentations

Sustainability

• Materiality & strategy
• Performance & targets
• Framework alignment

Salary:
From £24,000.00 per year


Benefits:

• Company pension
• Cycle to wor