Account Executive

Havas Media Group Spain SAU; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

One Green Bean, an agency within the Havas group, is seeking an Account Executive to support senior account leads in delivering integrated PR, social media and content campaigns for consumer clients in London. You will act as the organisational backbone, ensuring smooth delivery, learning from experienced practitioners, and contributing to award-winning work that drives commercial impact for brands.

You'll develop skills across client servicing, project management, media relations and creative

Qualifications

• 0-2 years' experience in PR or related agency environment
• Experience supporting integrated campaigns across PR, social and content
• Familiarity with media monitoring tools and social platforms
• Strong organisational and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Client Servicing - Support senior account leads in managing client relationships, ensuring communication is clear, proactive, and solutions-oriented
• Understand your clients' businesses: how they make money, their growth targets and objectives
• Grow relationships and trust with clients and partners by being polite, timely, accurate and helpful
• Regularly attend and confidently contribute to client meetings with account insights and recommendations
• Contribute to the collaboration of decks with meaningful and beneficial actions, ensuring client plans are up to date
• Proactively anticipate your team's needs for meetings and help them present a united front to clients
• Be flexible with workload priorities based on business and client needs
• Project Delivery & Execution - Assist in owning timelines, status updates, and workflow across teams to keep projects on track
• Contribute to press materials, track coverage, manage media lists, and support outreach for earned-first campaigns
• Actively find better ways of working and be solutions-oriented
• Demonstrate meticulous attention to detail, accuracy, multitasking and prioritising in fast-paced environments
• Proactively problem-solve to prevent and address roadblocks
• Understand and demonstrate different types, tones, and styles of writing dependent on audience and channel
• Start to develop a black book of media contacts
• Market Intelligence & Cultural Fluency - Monitor trends, platforms, creators, and emerging behaviours to help shape work that feels modern and culturally fluent
• Demonstrate genuine curiosity about the wider world, consumer brands, and keen awareness of media trends, news cycles, and internet culture
• Identify reactive PR opportunities and flag key cultural trends and insights
• Regularly read and digest all media types and share learnings, insights and new opportunities with the wider agency - beyond just the daily newspapers
• Learn about client industries and market trends – becoming a sponge for insights
• Performance & Analytics - Compile campaign reports, social metrics, and insights to demonstrate impact and guide optimisation
• Apply good judgement to everyday decisions, thinking about impact and consequences
• Manage administrative tasks (e.g., reporting) with precision and proactivity
• Keep an eye on competitors' campaigns and actions
• Collaboration & Teamwork - Work closely with the PR team across all accounts and initiatives
• Work with and manage any external vendors where necessary
• Contribute to a positive working culture
• Skills & Innovation - Use AI tools and explore how AI can enhance your daily tasks and improve performance on your clients' accounts
• Bring fresh thinking, creativity, and new ideas to brainstorms and client proposals
• Research new business opportunities and contribute to pitches where appropriate

Skills

Organisational skills

Written & verbal communication

Timekeeping

Proactive problem-solving

Multitasking

Interest in PR/media

Team player

Sense of humour

PR experience

Integrated campaigns experience

Tools

Media monitoring tools

Job description

Agency : One Green Bean Job Description : Account Executive Agency: One Green Bean Location: London Reports to: Account Manager / Senior Account Manager

About OGB A comms agency with ambitions to be one of the most creative companies in the world. While we specialise in PR, social, influencer and events, our focus remains on ideas that change the game. We believe brands can be entertaining while adding value to the lives of their customers if they have the right partner agency who delivers creative ambition with attention to detail. These are the two points most important to us. Our independently minded business is part of Havas; a 22-location-strong holding company that shares our values.

We See It Through We Step Up and Stay Close We Trust Judgement and Act with Courage We Have Fun All the Way

Are you a creative problem solver? If you’ve ever made a world book day costume, planned a surprise party or have a passion for the creative world around us, OGB might just be a place for you.

The Role You're the fresh energy, the organisational whiz, and the ultimate support system. Think of yourself as the future of OGB, learning the ropes and absorbing everything from the best in the business. Your mission: keep the plates spinning, soak up knowledge, and become indispensable to your team and our clients. You're the engine, learning to navigate the fast lane. We're looking for an enthusiastic Account Executive who will support senior account leads in delivering integrated PR, social media and content campaigns for our consumer clients. You'll be the organisational backbone of your accounts, ensuring smooth delivery while developing your skills across client servicing, project management, media relations and creative thinking. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from experienced practitioners, build your career foundations, and contribute to award-winning work that drives real commercial impact for brands.

Key Responsibilities

• - Client Servicing - Support senior account leads in managing client relationships, ensuring communication is clear, proactive, and solutions-oriented
• - Understand your clients' businesses: how they make money, their growth targets and objectives
• - Grow relationships and trust with clients and partners by being polite, timely, accurate and helpful
• - Regularly attend and confidently contribute to client meetings with account insights and recommendations
• - Contribute to the collaboration of decks with meaningful and beneficial actions, ensuring client plans are up to date
• - Proactively anticipate your team's needs for meetings and help them present a united front to clients
• - Be flexible with workload priorities based on business and client needs
• - Project Delivery & Execution - Assist in owning timelines, status updates, and workflow across teams to keep projects on track
• - Contribute to press materials, track coverage, manage media lists, and support outreach for earned-first campaigns
• - Actively find better ways of working and be solutions-oriented
• - Demonstrate meticulous attention to detail, accuracy, multitasking and prioritising in fast-paced environments
• - Proactively problem-solve to prevent and address roadblocks
• - Understand and demonstrate different types, tones, and styles of writing dependent on audience and channel
• - Start to develop a black book of media contacts
• - Market Intelligence & Cultural Fluency - Monitor trends, platforms, creators, and emerging behaviours to help shape work that feels modern and culturally fluent
• - Demonstrate genuine curiosity about the wider world, consumer brands, and keen awareness of media trends, news cycles, and internet culture
• - Identify reactive PR opportunities and flag key cultural trends and insights
• - Regularly read and digest all media types and share learnings, insights and new opportunities with the wider agency - beyond just the daily newspapers
• - Learn about client industries and market trends – becoming a sponge for insights
• - Performance & Analytics - Compile campaign reports, social metrics, and insights to demonstrate impact and guide optimisation
• - Apply good judgement to everyday decisions, thinking about impact and consequences
• - Manage administrative tasks (e.g., reporting) with precision and proactivity
• - Keep an eye on competitors' campaigns and actions
• - Collaboration & Teamwork - Work closely with the PR team across all accounts and initiatives
• - Work with and manage any external vendors where necessary
• - Contribute to a positive working culture
• - Skills & Innovation - Use AI tools and explore how AI can enhance your daily tasks and improve performance on your clients' accounts
• - Bring fresh thinking, creativity, and new ideas to brainstorms and client proposals
• - Research new business opportunities and contribute to pitches where appropriate

Essential Skills and Behaviours

• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Brilliant timekeeping and an eye for punctuality
• Proactive, solutions-focused approach to challenges
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Genuine interest in PR, media, social platforms and consumer culture
• Team player with a positive, can-do attitude
• Sense of humour

Desired Experience

• 0-2 years' experience in PR, communications, social media or related agency environment (or relevant internship experience)
• Experience supporting integrated campaigns across PR, social and content
• Familiarity with media monitoring tools and social media platforms

Contract Type

Permanent

Here at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.

About Us

Founded in 1835 by Charles-Louis Havas, Havas is one of the world’s largest global communications groups, with more than 23,000 people in over 100 countries sharing one single mission: to make a meaningful difference to brands, businesses, and people. Havas has developed a fully integrated model covering all communications activities. The teams of the three business units, Creative, Media and Health & You, work together with agility and in perfect synergy to offer clients tailor-made, meaningful, innovative and entertainment-oriented solutions that support them in their positive transformation.

Life at Havas We take great pride in our Havas family. They bring many unique personalities, perspectives and passions to their work. Collaboration is at the core of how we operate, and Havas Villages are the homes we work in. We encourage our people to take advantage of our many opportunities to learn and grow. Through local agency training sessions, our unique global and development programs, we offer our people endless opportunities to explore.

Havas Creative Network At Havas, we believe creativity isn’t just a description of our business, it is part of our agencies’ DNA. We bring together some of the industry’s most creative and accomplished agencies. By combining creative expertise with the strategic and innovative power of our Villages, we can build seamless teams around the individual needs of each of our clients.

Havas Media Network We create the best media experience, capitalizing on the most meaningful media to build more meaningful brands. We know how to connect a client with their target audience – in the context of where they are, through the content they pay attention to. We deliver this expertise through the Mx System, our global operating methodology and strategic planning process, that creates value for our clients by turning consumer intelligence into clear growth targets, aligning stakeholders and KPIs, and measuring the impact of media experiences.

Havas Health Driven by human purpose and focused on the betterment of humanity through health, Havas Health & You leverages a global collection of experts and individuals to help people everywhere live healthierlives. Witha spirit rooted in innovation, creativity, and education, we are dedicated to delivering consistent excellence and groundbreaking work.