Account Executive

Leith; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Electric car scheme

Private health insurance

Annual discretionary bonus

Generous annual leave

Parental leave

Pension plan

Learning & development

Mentoring

Job summary

Leith Agency in Edinburgh is seeking an Account Executive to join a growing team focused on Health & Wellbeing projects for clients both in the UK and internationally. The role emphasizes relationship-building, proactive client communication, and maintaining high agency standards.

You will work with internal teams and suppliers to keep projects on track, while supporting budgeting and estimating tasks. Passion for meaningful health outcomes and flexibility in language skills are valued.

Qualifications

• 1 year experience in a similar role.
• Show an interest in working in the creative industries.
• Have good written and verbal communication skills.
• Ideally language skills in European languages (French ideally).
• Relentless attention to detail.
• A problem-solving personality, with the desire to help your colleagues.
• Most importantly a passion for creating meaningful work that improves the health and well-being of people.

Responsibilities

• Preparing and circulating information for the team and clients.
• Maintaining regular contact with clients through calls, meetings, presentations and informally in a proactive way.
• Helping ensure the agency’s standards and reputation in all external dealings are maintained.
• Briefing internal departments and external suppliers.
• Ensure the projects on the team are kept on track and the team and clients are fully informed of project progress.
• Keeping accurate and comprehensive financial records for every project being managed.
• Supporting with estimating jobs that are briefed from our clients.

Skills

Communication skills

French language

Creative industries interest

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Job description

Overview / About Us

We’re The Leith Agency a creative, strategically minded, digitally savvy team of over 130 working in Edinburgh (often ranked as one of the world’s best cities to live in).

Leith is part of Lumanity, a global consultancy with over 1200 employees through the United Kingdom, Europe, United States, and India.

Responsibilities / Position Overview

We’re growing the work we do in the Health & Wellbeing sector and are looking to add a new Account Executive to our team.

We currently work on a range of clients internationally and in the UK. We have ambitious plans to grow the business. Given the nature of the work, it will be a bonus for candidates to have language skills.

But more importantly you must be passionate about using communications to help make a difference to the health and well-being of people, from helping increasing vaccination rates in meningitis and RSV for children to telling the story of the science behind the world’s most innovative medicines.

You’ll be liaising with our clients:

• Preparing and circulating information for the team and clients
• Maintaining regular contact with clients through calls, meetings, presentations and informally in a proactive way.
• Helping ensure the agency’s standards and reputation in all external dealings are maintained.

You’ll be working on projects with the team including:

• Briefing internal departments and external suppliers
• Ensure the projects on the team are kept on track and the team and clients are fully informed of project progress.

Looking after the pennies and the pounds by:

• Keeping accurate and comprehensive financial records for every project being managed.
• Supporting with estimating jobs that are briefed from our clients

Qualifications

• 1 year experience in a similar role
• Show an interest in working in the creative industries
• Have good written and verbal communication skills
• Ideally language skills in European languages (French ideally)
• Relentless attention to detail.
• A problem-solving personality, with the desire to help your colleagues
• Most importantly a passion for creating meaningful work that improves the health and well-being of people.

Benefits

What’s in it for you?

• You’ll get to work at an award-winning agency with smart people who have a huge variety of skills
• Hybrid and flexible working as well as a nice, airy, cushy office right on The Shore of Leith
• An electric car and cycle to work scheme to save you cash for saving the planet
• Regular company-wide learning sessions and a suite of training courses through our parent company
• Vitality Private Health Insurance
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave and shared parental leave
• Pension plan with employer contributions and much more

Leith is an equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity. We want everyone working here (or at home) to be able to reach their full potential, feel like they can be themselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of family-friendly and inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, a mentoring scheme, and take an individual and flexible approach to supporting staff from different backgrounds. Please feel free to discuss any working requirements you have in your interview.