Senior Account Executive

Salary: £36,000 – £42,000 per year

The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Account Executive (SAE) who is interested in developing their career in media and advertising. The SAE will work closely with the Account Managers, Senior Account Managers, and Account Directors to manage client relationships, produce and manage media campaigns, whilst building on their existing media knowledge.

The role is across two of our priority client relationships – Intel and Sky. A minimum of 1 year of relevant industry experience is required.

Key areas of responsibility:

* Account Management

* Manage client project status documents, reviewed with multiple stakeholders weekly

* Work closely with media team colleagues to review deliverables on a daily basis

* Maintain account files and documentation on the server

* Prepare screenshot presentations

* Gather market and media research, and compile competitive spend reports

* Work closely with media and account teams to develop and maintain media plans

* Format, proof, and prepare PowerPoint presentations as needed

* Prepare POVs (point of views) on opportunities presented to us

* Schedule media owner meetings

* Finance & Profitability

* Prepare media authorizations and maintain updates on PO tracker

* Monitor and reconcile client/vendor billing

* Issue insertion orders (IOs) and change orders (COs)

* Campaign

* Maintain client media buy details

* Prepare and maintain online creative traffic masters – gather ad specs to be shared with client/creative agencies

* Manage due dates of tracking reports

* Work with media team colleagues to track online programs – pacing, performance, etc.

* Traffic lead gen assets as needed

* Reporting

* Manage weekly and real-time campaign performance reports

* Prepare and maintain reconciliation reports, including running reports from ad servers to update booking system with current month-end activity

* Collect leads from media partners, and organize, scrub, and prepare summaries as needed

* Internal/Vendor Relationships

* Assist in sending vendor RFPs and collect/organize completed RFPs

A few of the benefits

Whether it’s the joy of working with people at the top of their game or the Merkle social calendar, people love working here – and we hope you will too

· Career development through Merkle University and other tools; with access to courses, textbooks, and mentorship

· Company Pension, Private Medical, and other corporate benefits

· Free breakfast, fruit, and most importantly, biscuits!

· Food Fridays – enjoy a takeaway lunch courtesy of us once a month

· Four Thirsty – have a drink on us on a Friday afternoon!

· A selection of other industry-standard benefits

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At Merkle, a dentsu company, we believe that creating diverse and balanced teams is not just a moral imperative, it is a business imperative. To help our clients reach millions of different people every day, we need our people to reflect the society that we represent.

We aim to create an inclusive culture where all talent thrives, and we champion meaningful progress in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) for our people, clients and partners.

DEI is firmly embedded into our shared values – the 8 Ways to Never Before – and our Leadership Framework, which applies to all of our people. And our Global DEI Principles reflect our pledge to be an organisation that promotes wellbeing and inclusivity for everyone – regardless of ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, gender (incl. gender identity and gender expression), age, neurodiversity or physical ability.

We are proud of what makes us different and encourage applicants from all different backgrounds to apply to join us. We are always happy to discuss all flexible and agile approached to working and should you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.