Account Executive (Creative), Grand Visual

At Talon, our mission is to unlock the full potential of out of home, making it more effective, creative, measurable and sustainable than ever. We’re passionate about OOH and are on a mission to drive the growth of this sector within the media industry. In just over a decade, our desire to offer intelligent, creative, technology-led OOH solutions and a full-service OOH offering saw us grow into a team of over 450+ people located in key cities across the globe. In that time, we have been awarded for our approach to our people, our clients and our industry. We hire the finest talent to help us unlock the full potential of the Out of Home (OOH) environment for our clients; and pride ourselves on the individuals who represent our business.

ABOUT GRAND VISUAL

Grand Visual is the Creative arm of the Talon group, focusing wholly on delivering best in class creative services, and maximising media value to the Global OOH market. Our clients include Disney, Nike, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Amazon, Pepsi, Disney Parks and Proximo Spirits to name a few. Our team of experts have been crafting compelling stories for leading agencies, brands and audiences all around the world for over 17 years, delivering projects in the USA for 10 of those. From murals, to experiential, interactive digital experiences and data driven creative our team ideate, develop, manage and produce campaigns seen by millions of people around the world.

THE ROLE

Grand Visual are on the hunt for a talented account executive to join the London team. The role sits within the UK sales team, taking on a range of responsibilities supporting the team across our broad client portfolio. You’ll be expected to be able to jump from the world of creating awesome mock-ups, brainstorming ideas with the wider team, and developing out further into response decks for our client briefs. You’ll have the amazing opportunity to work on big-name brands, deliver award-winning projects, and collaborate with a creative team of awesome people to deliver effective OOH campaigns and activations across the world.

• Management: Support the wider sales team across a range of client brief and creative responses. Be confident in flagging potential issues and deadline bottlenecks. Manage multiple projects of varying complexity. Spot areas of improvement in our processes.
• Creative and Delivery: Participate in and on occasion lead creative brainstorming sessions. Don’t be afraid to voice ideas of all types within the team. Stretch, develop and challenge ideas where appropriate. Research creative examples you find across the global OOH landscape medium and contribute to knowledge sharing.
• Personal Development: Complete programmes of work or study relevant to the creative role that will benefit the business. Build relationships with our key partners and suppliers to provide strong foundations for progression. Review own performance and look for areas of improvement.
• Environmental, Social and Governance Objectives (ESG): Champion sustainability and advocate the value of positive social and environmental impact within your team. Participate in projects and initiatives which drive Talon’s commitment to positive social and environmental causes. Role model the Talon values and behaviours to help ensure the best possible culture and tone is set throughout Talon.

A DAY IN THE LIFE

Assisting in responding to internal and external briefing demands and enquiries in a timely manner with a high level of detail as required by the individual request. Promoting creative ideas and scoping out top line production requirements to realise a creative ambition. Supporting the GV UK Sales team to drive our commercial numbers and reach the team target. Consistently adhering to all key processes including the tracking on sale leads in HubSpot. Developing key agency and client relationships across a large patch of media agencies and clients direct. Building and maintaining strong relationships with current suppliers. Supporting the account directors in client inspiration sessions, agency, and internal brainstorms. Identifying and co-creating new sales opportunities with our team and partners that we can pitch into clients and agencies. Staying up to date with recent creative innovations and researching new production methods to help enthuse our teams and infuse our work with innovative ideas. The ability to work under pressure within a fast-paced environment across multiple briefs. Assisting the Marketing team in the creation of case studies and post-campaign collateral.

Planning and Organising: Demonstrate planning and organisation skills on every project. From briefing to delivery, we expect candidates to be as happy working as part of a team or solo. We expect you to handle the pressure of a busy studio environment and the time sensitivities of a fast-moving industry.

Decision-Making: We believe in our staff and their decision-making skills and allow them to demonstrate this on behalf of the business. That means we need your attention to detail to be sharp, help us to spot areas of concern or strength, and not being afraid to raise them. We’ll provide you with a working environment where this is possible.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• A genuine interest in working in an advertising & media environment.
• A desire to do creatively challenging and compelling work that goes outside your comfort zone.
• Ambitious self-starter, independent and resourceful, with initiative.
• Great communication skills, written and verbal.
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.
• An excellent standard of computer literacy, especially PowerPoint, Excel, and the wider Microsoft Office Suite.
• Organised and reliable approach to work with an ability to problem-solve quickly.
• Bachelor’s degree in an Advertising, Marketing or creative related field would be a benefit.

OUR VALUES AND HOW WE WORK TOGETHER

• WE ARE BOLD: As industry provocateurs and pioneers, we respectfully challenge the status quo, take pride in our people, big ideas and partnerships.
• WE ARE HUMAN: We are a diverse collective of changemakers who value respect, fairness, and integrity and expect the same in return.
• WE ARE SMART: Our trailblazing spirit and learning centric culture ensures our knowledge provides maximum value to each other and our clients.

Talon is an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ and develop a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and brands that we represent.