Account Executive (Creative Studio)

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ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE (CREATIVE STUDIO)

Salary: £26,000 - £28,000 per annum

Department: Marketing, Fundraising and Engagement

Reports to: Account Manager

Location: Stratford, London w/ high-flex (1 - 2 days per week in the office)

Hours: 35 hours per week

Contract type: Permanent

Closing date: Sunday 8 September 2024, 23:55.

Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

We are looking for an Account Executive to join our in-house Creative Studio team. You will coordinate the workflow of internally commissioned creative projects from teams across the organisation, which includes the end-to-end running of the creative process from brief to delivery.

You will also build strong and trusted relationships with commissioning teams and key stakeholders, developing knowledge and understanding of business needs, audiences, channels, and strategy.

You do not need to have experience in the charity sector - we are looking for someone with relevant transferrable skills and a positive, proactive attitude.

What will I be doing?

• Partnering with commissioning teams to be a key point of contact for workflow of jobs into the creative team, and support the creative operations team to inform planning and forecasting
• Being responsible for the smooth end-to-end running of the creative process and manage projects from planning, to brief, to delivery, ensuring stages are delivered on time and to high standard
• Liaising with the creative operations team and utilise the trafficking system to agree and schedule appropriate creative team resource needed to deliver projects
• Managing feedback and amendments directly with creatives and commissioning teams, giving clear and structured articulation of changes
• Being a guardian of the CRUK brand. Work with commissioning teams and creatives to ensure all creative work that leaves the creative team has passed a final point of quality assurance, is on brand and supports wider objectives.
• Being an essential partner in ensuring the best level of service is delivered for commissioning teams, identify, and resolve operational difficulties whilst maintaining the delivery of brilliant creative output
• Ensuring equality, diversity and inclusion is celebrated and considered as part of all decisions taken.

What are you looking for?

• Relevant experience of project coordination in an in-house team or creative agency
• Someone who is highly organised
• A strong communicator
• An avid brand guardian
• The ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Someone who is enthusiastic, keen to learn and passionate about our cause.

What will I gain?

Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do:

• Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination
• Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism
• Human: Act to have a positive impact on people
• Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively

We're looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer.

What will I gain?

We create a working environment that supports your wellbeing and provide a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools. Our policies and processes enable you to improve your work-life balance, take positive steps in your career and achieve your personal wellbeing goals.

How do I apply?

We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won't be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you fairly and objectively.

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