Account Manager - Connections Planning

We are recruiting for an Account Manager who is an exceptional and driven media planner, to join our Connections Planning team working on PayPal and Qatar National Tourism Council.

As Account Manager, you will work as part of a wider planning team to support the UK strategic planning, delivery, and account management of campaigns for your brands driving effectiveness & innovation within your work. You will build trusted client relationships, lead status meetings, take responsibility for collating reports, and work closely with the activation teams on delivery and reporting. As you progress, you will have the opportunity to take more leadership of the planning on some brands. On some brands, you may work as part of an inter-agency team, working closely with creative, PR & experiential, and influencer agencies allowing us to initiate and drive innovation & award-winning ideas. We have strong relationships with our clients and are often seen as an extension of their team.

You show a breadth of understanding of media channels and can discuss the role they play within a comms strategy. You have an interest in both brand and performance campaigns with some knowledge of ecommerce. You are a tool ‘wizard’...well not quite but excellent knowledge of audience research and planning tools (e.g. TGI & Touchpoints) is a must and awareness of / familiarity with alternative sources (such as media owner tools & data) is a plus. Ability to draw clear insights and implications for media (i.e. connecting the outputs of different insight systems successfully). Take responsibility for the upfront work that needs to happen in order to deliver a great, clear, and concise universal brief to the specialist teams that hits the clients' brief on the head. You care about proving your campaigns work! How? By being able to create a holistic measurement framework relevant for your brand and applicable to every campaign that is digestible (setting KPI’s methods I.e., which tool/system, necessary tracking) and plan for adaptation/optimisation. You are confident in presenting with passion and conviction. You are excited to work as part of a team; immediate, wider department, and specialists as required. Leading by example through presence and contribution. Taking the responsibility for working in a collaborative, inclusive way. You demonstrate excellent attention to detail and accuracy in output and meeting deadlines, as well as strong organization to meet client expectations, manage workflow for self and junior team members. Demonstrate a proactive desire to continually improve own knowledge and wider skill set. You are open-minded, flexible, and have a challenger mindset.

What We Can Offer You:

• A strong salary commensurate and in-line 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.

Mindshare is a leading global marketing and media services network with billings in excess of £23 billion worldwide. We work with some of the most famous businesses and brands in the UK – such as Unilever, Ford, KFC, Marks & Spencer, 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.

Our ambition is to drive Good Growth for our clients. Good Growth is about delivering growth that is enduring and is considerate of people and planet. Media is a powerful force, and we need to be mindful of the responsibility that it brings. We help our clients make better decisions by ensuring we use media in a trusted, inclusive, and sustainable way. We recognize that in order to drive Good Growth, we need to place people at the heart of everything we do. Understanding people, not demographics allows us to place media meaningfully into their lives. Good Growth is a big ambition – one which inspires change for the industry but also for our agency and we achieve this through our values of Energy, Empathy, and Impact.

Our brilliant people allow us to deliver our ambition. We invest heavily in their development to ensure they are progressing and thriving wherever they work in our business. We also think inspiration for our staff is key and our pinnacle and flagship event of the year, Huddle, connects people, opinions, and perspectives across borders and is all about learning something new and participating.

We have a big dream at Mindshare, to become the most inclusive place to work in the country! This will take time but the whole agency is passionate about making it a reality. To support this, we currently have 8 Employee Resource Groups available for our people to join and be a part of including, Roots, PrideM, Women in Business, Enable, Declassify, 0Borders, ADAM, and Working Parents. These groups hold the agency to account for making progress and, along with our Mental Health Allies, design and lead events and initiatives that help us create a welcoming environment for all and a place where everyone can be their most confident self.