Account Executive

Company Description

Saatchi & Saatchi has grown from a start-up advertising agency in London in 1970 to a global creative communications company headquartered in New York with 114 offices in 67 countries and over 6000 employees. 

Saatchi & Saatchi is part of the Publicis Groupe, the world’s third largest communications group. We are a full-service, integrated communications network and we work with 6 of the top 10 and over half of the top 50 global advertisers. 

We’re in the business of getting people to fall in love with our clients’ products and services. We have an unshakeable spirit and unbeatable attitude from day one at Saatchi & Saatchi that Nothing is Impossible.

Job Description

Overall

The Account Executive works closely with greater account team, agency teams, and clients to coordinate and input on strategic development, creative development, project management and tactical execution for clients’ marketing campaigns. Account Executives are the ‘composers of the orchestra’ and are essential to make the process, and creative work, wonderful and effective!

Team Relationship & Management

• Proactively Manages UP, DOWN, and ACROSS teams
  • Comprehensive but concise verbal & written communication
  • Over-communication is much preferred than not communicating at all
  • Working with Managers to prioritize workload and ability to tactfully say ‘no’ to commit to those priorities.
  • Manages AAE and oversees and approves their responsibilities
  • Delegates work efficiently
• Builds trust and respect from team members
  • Internally - as a Power of One structure, the team will be comprised of Account, Strategy, Creative, Digital, Production, Media
  • Cross-team – there will be interactions, collaboration and partnerships with the other Family Care brands and likely other CPG businesses 
  • Externally – with our CPG clients and other external agency partners or JBPs

General Responsibilities

Overview:

• Oversee and execute client projects with oversight.
  • Manage budgets, timelines, status updates, recaps, and junior staff as needed.
• Deliver excellent client service and account/project management.
  • Manage client & internal communications to advocate for creative excellence while exceeding client expectations. 

Creative Development & Production:

• Status
  • Leads any necessary status calls
  • Reviews status documents updates to ensure they are complete and comprehensive. 
• Meeting Recaps (Internal/External)
  • Leads process for finalizing meeting reports after all meetings with AAE, including confirming need for recap with AD and sharing with AD for approval in timely fashion
• Timelines
  • Works closely with Managers to create and manage project and production timelines.
• Print & Digital Production
  • Spearheads all Print and Digital creative development/activation from brief to release and acts as liaison with Brand, Creatives, IP’s, Strategy, and Print Producers
  • Prepares and leads creative calls with Brand team
• Broadcast/Video Production
  • Support all aspects of broadcast production process, including:
    • Writes Pre-Bid and oversees development of Pre-Pro Meeting materials
    • Manages substantiation documents, network clearance and legal reviews.
    • Supports greater team on shoots (whenever possible)

Budget and Asset Delivery and Management:

• Budgets/Finance
  • Manages budget documents to make sure they are kept up to date, accurate, and thoroughly detailed. Ensures this is done consistently, as changes happen in real time, so there is no scrambling/backtracking whenever reconciliation or new budget requests arise. This will help with both accuracy and time management.
  • Works closely with AAE to keep budgets updated and flag any issues.
  • Leads (with the AAE) communication with business managers, talent managers, production managers to ensure all Agency/Brand process is abided by in a timely fashion.
• Talent
  • Keeps a very close eye on all Talent and Trafficking updates to ensure that all Holding Fees, talent terms / expiration dates, upcoming costs, etc are accounted for.
  • Reviews and approves talent estimates and ensuring that talent estimates are accurate according to latest media plans, and monitors actuals/accrued costs, vs. planned spends on a regular/as-needed basis.
  • Advises on usage terms as media opportunities are presented via the media team or client
• Traff