Account Executive, Connections Planning

ZipRecruiter; England; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits in a dynamic, forward-thinking company where you can kickstart your career in media and advertising. As an Account Executive, you will play a vital role in managing key accounts and collaborating with creative teams to deliver impactful campaigns. Your organizational skills and attention to detail will be essential as you navigate daily operations, client communications, and campaign management. With a strong focus on teamwork and continuous learning, this role offers a platform for personal and professional growth in a supportive environment. Join a passionate team dedicated to driving meaningful results for clients.

Benefits

25 Days Annual Leave

Private Healthcare

Flexible Working

Career Progression Opportunities

Industry Conferences Attendance

Excellent Pension Matching

Birthday Day Off

Ongoing Training Opportunities

Qualifications

• Ability to manage multiple campaigns and client communications.
• Strong understanding of media channels and their role in strategy.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day operations of campaigns and client interactions.
• Support Account Manager in delivering client briefs and project tracking.

Skills

Media Channel Understanding

Organizational Skills

Attention to Detail

Communication Skills

Team Collaboration

Education

Degree in Marketing or Related Field

Tools

Excel

Job description

Job DescriptionDescription
Position at Mindshare

Role: Account Executive

Department/Team: Connections Planning

Role Overview

We are recruiting for an Account Executive looking to kickstart their Career in media and advertising, to join our Connections Planning team.

You will be working on the Ford account in the UK – the biggest auto advertiser and one of the biggest accounts at Mindshare. We work in a unique ‘full service’ model meaning that the media teams collaborate closely with creative and account management teams within the Ford agency structure (primarily working with VML).

Therefore we foster a fully integrated team approach across media, creative and client, working together across the 3 team locations - 2 days (Mon-Tue) at Ford’s Dunton office (a short taxi from Shenfield on the Elizabeth Line- Travel costs are covered), 1 day (Wed) at VML Sea Containers House and 1 day (Thu) at Mindshare Rose Court.

About the role

In terms of your day to day, the bulk of your time will be spent working with the wider comms planning team and specialist channel teams in order to help respond to client briefs and ensuring these deliver. You will be a key stakeholder in ensuring the smooth running of the day to day – therefore an ability to organize and multitask is a must. This involves everything from sharing status updates internally and externally, managing overall budgets, and helping with creative delivery.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Day to day management of campaigns, as a key liaison between clients and channel specialists, ensuring smooth operations and flow of information.
• Manage the finance and billing operations within the team and direct with the client, with the support of the Account Manager.
• Ownership of our creative tracker – working with the creative agency VML to ensure we’re on track and all parties have the necessary information
• Supporting the Account Manager and Account Director in the delivery of responses to client briefs, leading some smaller briefs.
• Our team ‘eyes and ears’ on what's happening in the wider media industry – including attending Mindshare hosted learning sessions and passing back any relevant information
• Owner of our Year Plan (with support from the Account Director and Business Director): a large and continuously evolving excel sheet which keeps track of our planned and actual spends.
• Sourcing and sharing competitor and industry reports when relevant, on an ad-hoc basis
• Our team ‘Tool Guru’: able to become an expert in the various systems and data banks at our disposal.

About you

• You are keen to learn and able to take guidance and advantage of the various learning opportunities.
• You show a fundamental understanding of various media channels (especially online) and can discuss the role they play within a comms strategy
• Have an interest in both brand and performance campaigns
• 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 are excited to work as part of a team; immediate, wider department and specialists as required. Leading by example though 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
• 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

About Mindshare

Mindshare is a leading global marketing and media services network with billings in excess of £23billion 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 approach

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 recognise 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.

Working for Mindshare

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.

Committed to &

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 to all and a place where everyone can be their most confident self.

Please note this is a UK based role and requires individuals to have the right to work in this location