Account Executive, Connections Planning

GROUPM; Derry/Londonderry; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job description

Description
Position at Mindshare

Role: Account Executive
Department/Team: Various

Role Overview

We are looking for enthusiastic, conscientious and proactive Account Executives to join Mindshare / GroupM Nexus with vacancies across various teams and clients.

About Mindshare & GroupM Nexus

Mindshare is a leading global marketing and media services network with billings in excess of £23 billion worldwide. We work with some of the most famous businesses and brands in the UK – such as Unilever, Ford, KFC, Marks & Spencer, Volvo 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.

GroupM Nexus UK is a community of more than 1000 specialists comprised of Search, Social, Programmatic & Display, and Ad Tech Ops Practice Squads from across the GroupM agencies. GroupM Nexus is designed to accelerate GroupM clients’ businesses by leveraging the power and capabilities of GroupM and its agencies, through partnerships with the world’s leading digital platforms, advanced accreditations for digital practitioners or continued development and deployment of industry leading benchmarks.

About the role

We are recruiting for Account Executives to join several teams within Mindshare/Group M Nexus.

The Connections Planning team plays a crucial role in designing the audiences, connections, content and measurement that deliver the most innovative and effective solutions to clients. Members of the team understand consumer trends and are able to translate insights and strategic direction into actionable media solutions. They interact with a wide range of other teams including Insights and Strategic Planning, the specialist channel teams that execute the media, and the Live Planning team that optimises across all media channels.

The Programmatic team specialises in digital media and they are integral to achieving client goals by developing and optimizing activity as part of integrated, multi-channel campaigns. The ideal candidate should be able to demonstrate an enthusiasm for digital media and be keen to develop a career within digital and Programmatic. They should be able to articulate key features and benefits of Programmatic. They work closely with the Connections Planning team as well as our Live Planning teams on measurement.

The Commerce team is a rapidly growing team, working more closely than ever with Connections Planning. They focus on planning, buying and optimizing activity within search and display across our Retail Media Networks. The ideal candidate should be able to demonstrate an enthusiasm for this fast-growing space and be keen to develop a career within digital and eCommerce.

About you

Prior media/marketing experience is not a pre-requisite. A combination of “hands-on” experience and a structured training programme means Account Executives gain a comprehensive knowledge of how a media agency business operates and an understanding that is the cornerstone of a successful career in the media industry.

Required key skills & behaviours:

• Enthusiastic and positive with a genuine interest in a career in marketing and advertising
• Enthusiastic, reliable and excellent team player
• High level of comfort using data – both small and large datasets
• The ability to analyse data to discover insights
• Inquisitive and curious with a drive to really get under the skin of our client’s marketing
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organisation skills incl. time and project management
• Comfortable working in teams and will be able to proactively engage and collaborate with peers
• Proactive and self-motivated, always looking to expanding knowledge and capabilities
• Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint and ability to upskill on industry specific tools

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

Our Ambition

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 & GroupM Nexus

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 Diversity & Inclusion

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)