Account Executive, US KEY Accounts

Salary: $55,000 - $60,000

We're looking for an Account Executive to join our team in New York as part of our Sales function.

Your team: The LIONS Commercial Partnerships team works directly with clients year-round and is responsible for driving revenue consistently against our events product portfolio. This award winning team works with world class clients such as LinkedIn, Amazon, Spotify, Adobe, TikTok, Pinterest and more on creative partnership solutions. We provide a full service, working with the client from initial introduction through signing a contract to delivering their partnership on site and digitally.

Your Role: This role will report directly into the Senior Account Manager, and work with building world-class experience for global advertising and creativity clients. You will be tasked with supporting key accounts in partnerships with the Senior Account Manager. We are looking for an ambitious project manager with an eye for creativity and new ideas who wants to work with suppliers and partners to deliver ambitious projects in an organised and high quality manner.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate projects and schedules for Senior Account Manager to support client management

• Support account growth and new business development by attending calls, taking notes, drafting contracts, creating sales presentations, and developing new business outreach

• Support Senior Account Manager in liaising with internal LIONS teams, including operations, marketing, content, awards & finance. 

• Assist with accurate contact, pipeline, and activity information in Salesforce. 

• On-site operational support during the Cannes Lions Festival period, including direct liaison with clients and suppliers. 

• Willing and able to travel for necessary event operations, site visits, planning to both our London, UK HQ office and Cannes Lions Festival in Cannes, France. 

• Responsible for achieving the designated Account Executive performance target. 

Your Experience

• Interest and/or experience in the advertising, tech and creative industries. 

• Excellent literacy and numeric skills required. 

• Confident verbal communications skills. 

• Computer literate, use of Google, Microsoft Suite and internal CRM will be required 

• 1+ years’ experience in a sales or a sales focused customer facing environment with evidence of demonstrable success and growth necessary. 

Second language skills are not required, although French and/or Spanish would be of significant added value.

If you don't meet every single requirement, we'd still encourage you to apply. At LIONS, we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role we would still like you to apply.

Who are we?

The LIONS brand is probably most synonymous with Cannes Lions, The International Festival of Creativity, the definitive meeting place for the global creative communications and advertising community. It’s five days of inspiration, aspiration, unlimited magic and potential. The Festival has been championing creative excellence since 1954 with the goal of providing a global destination and the definitive benchmark for creativity that drives progress.

LIONS is going through an exciting time as it’s recently repositioned as The Home of Creativity, supporting those in the business of creativity at every step of their journeys with an extended portfolio of new advisory, learning and intelligence services. Our purpose is to drive progress through creativity for an incredibly diverse and talented global creative community.

You will join a team of change makers. The team’s purpose is to champion change to create the most powerful global creative community and drive growth for the brand.

LIONS is part of Ascential. Ascential takes the world’s leading brands to the heart of what’s next for their industries. We do this through our events, intelligence products and advisory services. Our 700 people serve a global customer base from more than 100 countries in the large and growing Marketing and Financial Technology sectors. Ascential is part of Informa Group

Why Choose Us?

Two divisions. Three continents. One great culture.

We strive for the highest standards in everything we do. But that’s not just for our customers. We