Overview
The role of Assistant Account Executive offers a thrilling opportunity to contribute to a dynamic and rapidly growing client poised for greatness. In this position, you'll play a pivotal role in cultivating a collaborative partnership both with internal teams and clients, working together to deliver exceptional and groundbreaking work.
You will be at the forefront, instrumental in establishing and expanding a premium brand in the dairy category, helping to shape the future of this exciting segment at the agency. With a focus on innovation, you'll have an unparalleled chance to bring fresh, daring ideas that will forge stronger connections with consumers and fuel significant business growth, all while being driven by our high creative ambitions.
As a key player, you'll support the Account Director in every phase of the initiative lifecycle, guiding the cross-functional team from discovery through to creative development, production and market optimization.
We are seeking someone whose spirit is ignited by the advertising industry, eager to dive deeply into the client’s world with a passion for the food category. Your enthusiasm for collaboration will propel you and the agency team to discover and develop bold strategic and creative platforms that deliver maximum impact and elevate this brand to new heights.
Responsibilities
Embrace a dynamic role where you'll take ownership of weekly status updates and skillfully present project progress to both internal agency teams and clients, becoming an essential driver of informed decision-making. You'll work hand-in-hand with the Account Director to ensure project and production timelines align seamlessly with client expectations, all while honing your project management skills.
In this multifaceted position, you'll lead the charge on administrative tasks, ensuring seamless communication and organization through adept management of meeting notes, electronic files, and schedules. Your proactive approach will also shine as you assist in guiding the internal agency team—comprising creative, production, and strategy experts—to execute groundbreaking and compelling creative ideas.
You'll have the opportunity to master the intricacies of production documents, with support from the Account Director, and deftly manage the creative trafficking process with our valued vendors and media partners. By keeping the team informed of client business and industry developments, you'll provide valuable insights that will elevate creative development and enrich strategic business understanding. Your role involves not only reviewing creative work with a discerning eye but also synthesizing and relaying feedback effectively to ensure flawless revisions and approvals.
Your contributions will extend to ensuring decks and documents are always up-to-date, reflecting client feedback with precision and detail. You'll also play a key role in collaborating with the Account Director to track projects against scope, and support the Strategy team by diving into research and preparing for thought leadership presentations.
Lastly, you'll lead competitive reporting and industry trend tracking with enthusiastic support from the Strategy team, ensuring the agency remains at the forefront of innovation and strategic vision. This role offers a platform for you to grow, learn, and make a significant impact in the world of advertising and beyond.
Qualifications
- CPG experience, preferred.
- Production experience (TV, online video, digital banners, social ads), preferred.
- Creative delivery (fulfilling media buy, trafficking)
- Fundamental understanding of media tactics and analytics or eagerness to learn
- Skilled in Excel spreadsheets + foundational understanding of developing presentation decks in PowerPoint and Google Slides
- Ability to prioritize tasks / assignments and deliver on deadline
- Ability to creatively and proactively problem solve
- Great communication skills with ability to quickly build relationships with multitude of stakeholders including brand teams and agency team
- Experience reviewing and proofing creative
- Ability to critically examine, distil, synthesize and communicate internal and external feedback
- Able to quickly develop conference reports, extract / capture next steps, and manage project status reports
Soft Skills:
- Food lover!
- Team player
- Proactive
- Quick learner
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced environment
- Flexible with changes
- Calm under pressure
- Good multitasker
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