Account Executive
Job Description:
- Meeting clients to discuss their advertising needs
- Working with account planners to devise a campaign that meets the client’s brief and budget
- Presenting campaign ideas and costings to clients
- Briefing the creative team who will produce the adverts
- Negotiating with clients, solving any problems and making sure deadlines are met
- Checking and reporting on the campaign’s progress
- Keeping in contact with the client at all stages of the campaign
- Managing the account’s budget and invoicing the client
- Making ‘pitches’ to win new business
Requirement:
- Good spoken and written communication skills
- Strong presentation and negotiation skills
- Confidence, tact and a persuasive manner
- Good organisational and time management skills
- Good ‘people skills’, for working with a range of colleagues and clients
- The ability to lead and motivate a team
- A willingness to work long hours, often under pressure
- A professional manner