Account Executive

**Job Description**:
**Account Executive**

We believe that creativity is the most powerful asset in business today.

Our ability to create fresh, original, disruptive, transformative ideas comes from a deep understanding of human behaviour. It’s what we bring to every business problem.
**We call it HumanKind thinking.** It’s not about customers or consumers; we start with people and their behaviour. And we use all our intelligence, design thinking, digital innovation, and customer experience capabilities to shape that thinking into behaviour and business-changing solutions.

**THE ROLE**:
**Core responsibilities**:
PEOPLE
- Supporting all members of your team on their respective tasks assigned
- Alerting your manager (s) of any real or perceived client issues
- Effectively prioritising your work load and ensuring that your team are constantly kept informed on your progress of any given task

PRODUCT
- Take on tasks directed to you by the team leader to help keep projects on track internally and stakeholders informed
- Understanding your clients’ business, being fully aware of the market, consumer and current issues effecting each category
- Understanding consumers and sourcing intelligence on consumer trends / product related topics
- Know the client Brand Guidelines to ensure all communications are on brand and meet requirements
- Develop clear written briefs/debriefs and project documentation
- Take notes and write Contact reports for client meetings, important detailed phone calls and WIP meetings within 48hrs
- Maintain client filing system
- Gain approval of Creative Briefs, estimates/timelines, Internal concept review, copy, concepts and final artwork by relevant parties
- Update Traffic/ production, proof artwork, follow correct approvals, obtain print and delivery information, brief proof reader, book meetings and invite relevant attendees
- Develop Material Instructions based on accurate specifications from Media schedules

PROFIT
- Deliver projects to deadline and budget with accuracy
- Update internal and external agency WIP reports
- Keep other internal teams up to date daily on timelines and budgets
- Develop accurate estimates and re-estimates and gain approval of these
- Assist invoicing procedure and keep track of costs against the JDR maintaining an estimate tracker
- Implement campaign analysis for each campaign

**Desired Skills and Experience**:

- Tertiary qualified in a communications/marketing discipline preferred
- Preferably some advertising agency experience
- Proficient in MS Office - Word, Excel & Powerpoint
- Organisation, communication, administrative, interpersonal
- Strong attention to detail
- Demonstrates initiative with enthusiastic “can do” approach
- Can work independently
- Basic analytical skills

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

**What we’ll offer you**:

- Work in one of the world’s most progressive and dynamic modern communications businesses
- Opportunity to work with a diverse workforce where we value all the benefits of harnessing differences for our people, our clients and our business.
- A committed Diversity and Inclusion and Belonging strategy driven through our **Viva Women**, **Égalité** and **First Peoples** RAP (reconciliation action plan) programs
- A creative, fun and rewarding office environment backed up by our Publicis Liberté flexibility approach “working your way, with us”
- Open environment, where your input and feedback is valued
- Access to employee benefits including -wellness programmes, learning and development opportunities, network events
- Confidential 24 hour support via our employee assistance programme