Account Executive - SMG : Job Details

The role

We are looking for a Client Executive to join our LS Eleven (Asda Media) Partnership with SMG. In this role, you will be responsible for the coordination of media across all channels in your category area and working alongside the commercial teams, driving successful campaign delivery for the media centre. It will be essential for you to build strong relationships with your key stakeholders, both internal and external, using effective communication skills to support the total business commercial goals and targets. You will successfully process and manage a variety of campaigns, ensuring briefs and artwork material meet guidelines and adhere to the set critical paths, with close attention to detail.

Why SMG?

We are dedicated to supporting our employees to be the best version of themselves both inside and outside of work. We have an extraordinary culture built by exceptional people and it’s because of this that we’ve been recognised by Best Companies within the top 5 best Marketing & Media agencies to work for, with a World Class and Outstanding accreditation across the past 2 years.

We are also dedicated to continuously reviewing and improving our benefits package to offer the best that we can for our people. We have a whole page dedicated to our benefits here, but here are some of our favourites...

• 10% discretionary bonus scheme
• £1,800 yearly wellbeing fund (on top of your salary!) towards your personal wellbeing and passions
• 4 additional Wellbeing Days - one to be taken each quarter, dedicated to focusing on your wellbeing
• £500 yearly "Uni Fund" towards learning and development
• Free headspace subscription
• 4pm Friday finishes all year round
• Two fully paid conferences a year at Summer & Winter, as well as a dedicated team that put on activities and celebrations throughout the year

Why you?

In line with our company values, within your role, you'll want to stay honest, stay hungry, stay foolish, and most importantly, have fun! More specifically, you'll have/be:

• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders (internal and external).
• Ability to work in and adapt to an ever-changing, fast-paced, challenging environment.
• Ability to work to multiple and strict deadlines and / or critical paths.
• Strong professional communication, and manner.
• An interest in working and growing a career within a marketing agency.

P.S. We try really hard to make sure that we list only essential criteria here, BUT if you think you can do an amazing job, yet don't have every single thing on this list, we'd still love to hear from you.

What you'll be doing

We pride ourselves on creating challenging and exciting opportunities, meaning that no two days are the same. However, here's an idea of what your responsibilities will look like:

• Support the co-ordination of your assigned category across all monetised channels, ensuring deadlines are met and the media is delivered as per the SLAs.
• Liaise with and support your clients on the guidelines, information required and critical paths.
• Approve and reject briefs based on set criteria and see all booked campaigns in your category through to live, ensuring process is followed at each milestone.
• Build strong relationships with your clients, internal and external teams to drive collaboration across all functions.
• Support wider organisational projects, whilst helping to create a great workplace and support with SMG's mission to lead connected commerce marketing.

The process

1. We will invite you to a first interview which we try to keep relatively informal, so it gives you the opportunity to share your authentic self. The hiring team will be looking to understand more about your experience and why you're interested in working with us.

2. There will be a second interview which will last a little longer, and involve some form of task to showcase your ability to do the role.

3. We then invite you to a meet & greet which is an opportunity for you to meet the team you'll be joining and ask them questions about the role and wider business.

Helping you shine

We are committed to helping you shine and show your full potential by making any changes you might need throughout your application. If you need an alternative way of applying for this role, support with understanding the role and its requirements, changes to be made to the way we hold our interviews, or anything else, then please reach out to us. You can let us know on your application form.

SMG are proud to be an equal opportunities employer

We are fully committed to providing equality in the workplace and ensure all opportunities for, and during employment, will be afforded to individuals fairly and irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race including colour, ethnic or national origins and nationality, religion or belief or sexual orientation ("the protected characteristics"). We want our organisation to reflect the diversity of our communities and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds.