Senior Account Executive

djeholdings; Greater London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Edelman, a leading global communications firm, seeks a Senior Account Executive to drive day-to-day client work across UK and international markets. You will manage projects, nurture client relationships, and coordinate with media and internal teams to deliver integrated campaigns.

The SAE role emphasizes strong writing, proactive problem-solving, and leadership development within a fast-paced, collaborative environment that values curiosity, accountability, and impact.

Responsibilities

• Act as a key day-to-day point of contact for clients, owning and leading specific projects and ongoing workstreams.
• Build strong client relationships through reliability, responsiveness and consistently high-quality delivery.
• Lead client interactions where appropriate, articulating a point of view with confidence and gravitas and proactively anticipating client needs, upcoming moments, issues and opportunities.

Job description

Edelman is a voice synonymous with trust, reimagining a future where the currency of communication is action. Our culture thrives on three promises: boldness is possibility, empathy is progress, and curiosity is momentum.

At Edelman, we understand diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) transform our colleagues, our company, our clients, and our communities. We are in relentless pursuit of an equitable and inspiring workplace that is respectful of all, reflects and represents the world in which we live, and fosters trust, collaboration and belonging.

About the Company

We are a leading global communications marketing firm helping business and organisations evolve, promote, and protect their brands and reputations. We are independent and family owned, which allows us the freedom to deliver original thinking and invest in our clients.

In the UK, there are more than 600 employees based in our offices in Victoria. We create award-winning creative communication programmes for our clients who include Microsoft, Nissan, Disneyland Paris, FedEx, Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

We have deep expertise and advise on consumer trends, research, analytics and insights, corporate reputation, health, technology, capital markets, crisis, energy, and government affairs.

About the Team

The Associate Practice at Edelman represents the foundation of our client service talent pipeline, a unified structure designed to foster early career growth across communications, public affairs, and advisory disciplines. This practice encompasses professionals from entry-level to emerging specialists who support and drive client work through curiosity, collaboration, and accountability. It aims to build well-rounded, integrated practitioners who deliver exceptional work across the firm's offerings while developing the strategic, operational, and leadership skills that define Edelman excellence.

Senior Account Executive (SAE) has distinct responsibilities, skill expectations, and performance indicators including developing leadership maturity by demonstrating growing confidence, judgement and solid communication. Supports day-to-day client interactions, mentoring juniors, and contributing to strategy.

The role

Senior Account Executives (SAEs) are ambitious, motivated and proactive communicators who take ownership of the day-to-day running of multiple client workstreams. They are strong communicators with excellent writing skills and attention to detail, and act as trusted connectors between clients, teams and media or stakeholder networks. SAEs demonstrate emerging leadership by anticipating needs, solving problems proactively and driving work forward with confidence. They act as a key day-to-day point of contact for clients, own and lead specific projects and workstreams, and support and provide guidance to junior team members. They collaborate and integrate effectively with colleagues across different practices and teams, both in the UK and wider global markets, while contributing to strategic planning and the delivery of integrated communications programmes across earned, owned, paid and social channels.

Role Summary & Key Responsibilities:

Client Leadership

• Act as a key day-to-day point of contact for clients, owning and leading specific projects and ongoing workstreams, as well as supporting broader day-to-day account activity.
• Build strong client relationships through reliability, responsiveness and consistently high-quality delivery, with the confidence to manage ongoing workstreams with more junior clients.
• Lead client interactions where appropriate, articulating a point of view with confidence and gravitas and proactively anticipating client needs, upcoming moments, issues and opportunities.

Strategic Planning & Program Management

• Play a key role in the research, planning, brainstorming, development and execution of campaigns and communications programmes.
• Act as a driver of relevant workstreams you do 0001;

Content & Storytelling

• P roduce and edit high-quality client-facing content, including press releases, social media content, executive briefing materials, visual assets, editorial content such as social posts, infographics and video scripts, and client reports.
• Produce strong first drafts of client-facing content quickly and efficiently, with minimal edits fr