Senior Account Executive

About The Company

We are a leading global communications marketing firm helping business and organisations evolve, promote, and protect their brands and reputations. We are independent and family owned, which allows us the freedom to deliver original thinking and invest in our clients.

In the UK, there are more than 600 employees based in our offices in Victoria. We create award-winning creative communication programmes for our clients who include Microsoft, DP World, Nissan, Disneyland Paris, FedEx, PayPal, Starbucks, Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

We have deep expertise and advise on consumer trends, research, analytics and insights, corporate reputation, health, technology, capital markets, crisis, energy, and government affairs.

About The Team

We are London’s leading Corporate Reputation team. We create commercial value by delivering campaigns and advisory work for companies and brands that operate in the full glare of the public spotlight and whose reputations shape their businesses.

We have deep industry expertise and advise on integrated media strategy, digital and content production, crisis planning & response, litigation & legal affairs, employee engagement & advocacy, research & analytics, capital markets and government affairs.

The team includes more than 80 consultants specialising in all areas of corporate reputation and includes former journalists, seniorin-house practitioners, government advisors and industry specialists - as well as dedicated sector experts.

We take pride in delivering exceptional work for our clients but, at our core, we are a non-hierarchical team who like to spend time together in and out of the office.  We are relentlessly collaborative, and supported by leadership who champion and celebrate our collective achievements

The role

We are looking for an ambitious, motivated, and proactive individual to join the Edelman Corporate Reputation team. The Senior Account Executive role requires a candidate with excellent writing, attention to detail and media handling skills, and the ability to drive forward the day to day running of multiple accounts. The ability to act as a main point of contact for the client, support junior team members and collaborate and integrate with other parts of the business will also be key.

Responsibilities include:

• Creating compelling media angles, handling and developing relationships with journalists, and media monitoring
• Acting as a key point of contact for clients and to own and lead specific projects as well as day to day account activity
• Producing content; writing/editing press releases, social media content, articles, PR proposals
• Playing a key role in the research, planning and development of campaigns and driving these forward
• Supporting on new business pitches with research, slide development and media/social insights and contributing to internal marketing for the corporate team
  
  

Key Requirements:

• Desire to work as part of a large team in a busy, fast paced and highly motivated working environment
• Ability to service multiple clients and manage workload whilst supporting junior team members
• Team player that can manage both up and down and take overall responsibility of day to day client deliverables
• Experience of integrating and collaborating with different practices / teams on cross-business work
• Interest in current affairs, news, international business, and consumes media in all forms
• Solid and practical understanding of earned, owned, paid and social media, and how to incorporate these channels into communications programmes
• Excellent attention to detail, verbal and written skills, ability to articulate point of view with confidence and gravitas
• Entrepreneurial spirit - willingness to ‘get stuck in’ and make the most of opportunities
  
  

Edelman is a global communications firm that partners with businesses and organizations to evolve, promote and protect their brands and reputations. Our 6,000 people in more than 60 offices deliver communications strategies that give our clients the confidence to lead and act with certainty, earning the trust of their stakeholders. Our honors include the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for PR; Advertising Age’s 2019 A-List; the Holmes Report’s 2018 Global Digital Agency of the Year; and, five times, Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work. Since our founding in 1952, we have remained an independent, family-run business. Edelman owns specialty companies Edelman Data & Intelligence (DxI) and United Entertainment Group (entertainment, sports, lifestyle).

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