Account Executive

This job is with Mindshare, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community.

Mindshare is a global media agency designed to make media exciting, fun and life changing. For the last 20 years, our values of Speed, Teamwork and Provocation have guided our 10,000 people who work with some of the world's best brands and companies. Located in 116 offices across 86 countries, we are the largest media agency in GroupM, WPP's media investment management arm, which is the #1 media holding group globally. Mindshare Worldwide is the headquarters for Mindshare based in London. We are a team of 400+ people, co-ordinating media campaigns for our global clients.

At Mindshare Worldwide, we offer a competitive salary package, with 25 days holiday increasing with service to a maximum of 30 days, with the option to buy an extra 5 days per year. We also have an enhanced pension scheme, Bupa healthcare, a monthly wellbeing fund and early finishes on a Friday during summer. These are just some of the great benefits we offer. Based ten minutes from London Bridge tube station, our office has a rooftop with 360 views of London - a great space to hang out with colleagues and friends! We also offer an extensive training programme to help guide your career development whilst you're with us.

Our attitude is reflected in our core values of Empathy, Energy and Impact, which drive our people and our business. We want Mindshare Worldwide to be a place where everyone feels that they belong, everyone can be themselves and everyone has the same opportunities to develop their careers. Over the last 12 months, we have made important steps in progressing on our journey to a truly inclusive organisation.

This role is a unique opportunity to begin your career or for someone early on in their media career or looking for a change to build an excellent foundation in media planning and be part of a team that works with collaboration at its heart. You will gain an understanding of the inner workings of a global media account, building a solid grounding in how paid media supports our clients' growth ambitions. Working closely with the wider strategy, planning and activation teams, the function's role is to support a smooth end-to-end process from planning to reporting.

The ideal candidate will have an interest in both online and offline paid media. The individual should be a good communicator and enjoy the challenge of owning projects, ensuring efficiency is delivered in the end-to-end campaign process and the capacity to be involved in proactive asks and forward thinking.

• A team player who is interested in and excited to learn more about the world of global media.
• Show an active interest and maintain knowledge of the advertising industry at large.
• Excellent organisational skills with excellent written, verbal, analytical and numerical skills.
• Demonstrates a high degree of accuracy and numeracy in reviewing data sets.
• Experience using basic features of PowerPoint, Outlook and Excel.
• Ability to communicate and present succinctly.
• Organised to support across multiple projects and workstreams so that deadlines and quality standards are met.
• Used to working end-to-end processes.
• Solutions focused with a mindset towards process optimisation.

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience using tools for planning, measurement and competitor analysis.
• Experience working in an agency environment.
• Basic understanding of media principles, campaign measurement and KPIs.

Responsibilities:

• Support the team to coordinate annual and campaign level paid media planning process across EMEA.
• Assisting with day-to-day internal duties and assisting with client requests.
• Support on Ops Reporting, PCAs, Production delivery.
• Work with local markets to ensure their ongoing and ad-hoc deliverables are supplied on time, ensuring consistency and accuracy of reporting documents & data requests for onward use with clients.
• Responsible (with support) for the update and distribution of the budget and changes tracker.
• Keep updated with media channel developments, understanding the landscape and industry news and write-up actionable insights.
• Develop media planning knowledge.
• Own planning/reporting system, being responsible for reporting.
• Provide organised timelines for all projects and campaigns which cover client side and agency tasks.
• Keep updated on EMEA media channel developments and lead in the collation of competitor, market, and media activity that might identify new channels and test opportunities for upcoming campaigns.
• Share examples of great campaign activation from competitive and power brands across EMEA.

Attitude:

• Positive, enthusiastic with a can-do attitude.
• Inquisitive and happy to question the status quo.
• A team player who is interested in and excited to learn more.
• Calm approach to managing urgent deadlines.
• Enthusiasm and interest to go beyond the task.
• Proactive nature with strong self-motivation.
• Solutions focused.
• Comfortable with a dynamic, agile environment.
• Organised with a high attention to detail.