Client Executive

Job Description:

Introduction

Dentsu is an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world's leading organizations. Founded in 1901 in Tokyo, Japan, and now present in over 145 countries and regions, it has a proven track record of nurturing and developing innovations, combining the talents of its global network of leadership brands to develop impactful and integrated growth solutions for clients. Dentsu delivers end-to-end experience transformation (EX) by integrating its services across Media, CXM and Creative, while its business transformation (BX) mindset pushes the boundaries of transformation and sustainable growth for brands, people and society.

Carat is an important part of our world-class offering - an award-winning media, content and branding agency that uses its peerless understanding of the passions, motivations, and behaviours of real people to bring brands and their customers together. Carat is privileged to work with some of the most eminent companies in the world.

We're hiring for a Client Executive to join our Comms Planning team in London.

Purpose of the Role

We're looking for a Client Executive to work on 2 of our accounts; Premier Food and Ferrero in a 50/50 split. You'll support the Account Managers in all aspects of planning and account handling for clients and work collaboratively with colleagues across dentsu to service client needs.

Premier Foods have a portfolio of long-established brands that are household staples and which are invariably category leaders with brands including Mr Kipling, Bisto, Ambrosia and Batchelors. Many of the brands were built on TV and this channel remains the cornerstone for their advertising budgets. We work closely with the client procurement and insight teams to explore effectiveness and efficiency in all channels.

Ferrero provides the opportunity to work with some of the world's most beloved and iconic confectionery brands like Ferrero Rocher, Nutella, Tic Tac, Thornton's and more! In this role, you'll be part of a dynamic team crafting innovative media strategies for brands that have a rich heritage and a passionate global fan base.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Account Managers and Associate Client Directors with the delivery of multiple workstreams simultaneously to meet client expectations, coordinating the team's projects, ensuring all work is provided to our local and global teams in an accurate and timely manner.
• Builds and maintains collaborative working relationships with all specialist teams e.g. AV, One Display (press and digital), Posterscope (OOH) and meet with & learn from key local media owners.
• Work with Account Managers to ensure regular financial reports are accurate and match our PO budgets and that invoices are reconciled in a timely manner and work with global Finance teams to ensure UK financial reports match global budget trackers.
• Support Account Managers in the development, review, and presentation of regular campaign performance presentations and contribute to regular and ad-hoc competitive reports and completion of global reporting templates.
• Create and review target audience insights based on audience definition provided in campaign briefs and support Account Managers in translating audience media consumption insights into holistic media mix recommendations that deliver on our clients' business objectives, building out detailed, tactical plan recommendations and executing plans once approved.

Qualifications + Skills

• Familiarity with the UK media landscape with an understanding of different advertising channels.
• Experience building trusting, collaborative relationships with colleagues and clients.
• Proactive, enjoys working in a busy, fast paced team environment.
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail, driven to produce accurate & high-quality work.
• Able to communicate clearly with your immediate team, external stakeholders and client contacts through both verbal and written communication.
• Passionate about staying up to date with changes in the media landscape.

What we offer

This is a permanent role. The team is based in our London office but operates under flexible working arrangements. The team are currently in the office every Wednesday and Thursday.
As well as a competitive salary, you'll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

Inclusion and Diversity

Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their whole selves to work and be proud of doing so. For us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.

We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles - we can't promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If 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.

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Location:
London

Brand:
Carat

Time Type:
Full time

Contract Type:
Permanent]]>