Account Executive

MISSION Group; Barnstaple; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading marketing agency in Barnstaple is seeking a motivated Account Executive to join their dynamic Client Services team. In this hybrid role, you will manage small projects and collaborate with various brands across sectors like food, healthcare, and B2B. Strong organizational skills, effective communication, and multitasking abilities are essential. This position offers competitive benefits like 25 days’ holiday and a company pension scheme, providing a supportive environment for career development.

Benefits

25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Company pension scheme

Medical cash plan

Employee discount scheme

Outstanding training and progression programs

Regular staff social events

Qualifications

• Ability to prioritize workloads and meet tight deadlines.
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to build effective relationships with clients and teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage projects from client requirements to completion.
• Ensure timely delivery of projects through proactive management.
• Compile market sector information for teams.
• Provide professional service to clients.
• Prepare meeting rooms and materials for client meetings.
• Proofreading and managing incoming communications.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication

Multi-tasking

Social media knowledge

Job description

Overview

Account Executive
Filleigh- North Devon /Hybrid

Competitive + Benefits

A little about us….

Bray Leino is a full-service brand growth Agency established in North Devon in 1973, with further offices in Bristol, London and beyond, servicing national and global B2B and B2C Clients.

Role

About the role…

We have a great opportunity for a motivated and confident individual with a passion for developing a career in the marketing and communications sector. As an Account Executive you will provide support to the Client Services team, working with a variety of well-established brands.

You’ll be given the opportunity to manage small projects from start to finish, compiling timing plans, cost estimates and studio briefs across various jobs, ensuring their smooth running from start to finish, including managing the work on our bespoke job management system.

Our Client base is broad, working with businesses and brands in food & drink, healthcare, and B2B. Combined with our unique breadth of skills- including creative, digital, activation, strategic planning and events. You’ll be in one of the best possible places to learn about the industry. To ensure Account Executives learn as much as possible about what we do and discover the things that excite them most, you will typically have the opportunity to work in at least two different teams before progressing to Account Manager.

Key responsibilities:

• Accountable for managing all projects through the process from understanding Client requirements, briefing creative work, to the completed product
• Responsible for managing the production process to ensure we meet project deadlines through proactive management
• To compile market sector information for Account Team and investigate competitor and market initiatives
• To provide an effective timely and professional service to the Client either directly or via the Account Manager
• To compile status reports and contact reports
• Responsible for organising and preparing meeting rooms for Client meetings, ensuring Agenda and presentation material are all in place
• Proof reading, data inputting and a host of other key tasks such as filing and answering incoming calls/emails to ensuring the smooth running of the account

What we are looking for…

You will need to be organised and possess the ability to multi‑task, being able to prioritise workloads and work to tight deadlines is important as we need to deliver work on time to our clients. Communication is crucial and so the ability to be clear and concise in both your written and verbal communication is key. You will be working across a variety of different brands and Client services teams, so you will need to be able to quickly build effective working relationships with many different areas of the business and with clients. A sound knowledge of various social media platforms would be advantageous.

Benefits

• 25 days’ holiday, increasing to 29 after two years’ service + Plus Bank Holidays
• Company pension scheme, with enhanced Employer contributions after 1 years’ service
• Medical Cash Plan – including employee assist programme, contributions to dental, optical, physio etc
• Employee Discount Scheme – an online platform for all staff offering a variety of discounts at various shopping outlets, gyms etc
• Electric Car Purchase Scheme, via Salary Sacrifice
• Outstanding training and progression, including access to LinkedIn Learning and The Mission Group Learning Management System
• Employee referral scheme
• Regular staff social events
• Company Christmas closure
• Long service awards
• Cycle To Work scheme
• Mission Share Scheme

Our office is based in Bristol and we are currently working a hybrid model with everyone attending the office three times a week.

Here at Bray Leino, we’re celebrators of difference. We know it’s where Creativenergy comes from. So our culture’s open, diverse and inclusive. Whether you’re coming for an interview or have been with us for years, what matters is your talent and character; the rest is what makes you, you.

We’re committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed (Level 1) Employer. As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to; ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, communicating and promoting vacancies, offering an interview to those with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria for the job and anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required.

We are also a part of…

The MISSION Group Plc. is The Brand Performance Group. Delivering measurable, results-driven campaigns as the preferred creative partner for real business growth. We offer top-tier agencies, strategic specialisms and global reach delivering outstanding performance for brands. We call it Work That Counts™

Over 1,100 people across 25 locations and 3 continents