Job Description: Account Executive

Blue Parrot Advertising is a fully integrated advertising agency focusing on the healthcare industry. With in-house design, DTP, traffic and production, we conceptualise, manage, control and produce campaigns from strategy right through to final production.

Key tasks and Responsibilities
• Supporting the Account Manager or Account Director that is ultimately responsible for each client that you will work on.
• Delivering quality work, on time and according to instructions.
• Be the day-to-day client contact on work in progress
• Update status reports and attend status meetings
• Handle the day-to-day account admin and project management
• Take briefs from client, check them with the Account Manager and brief them into studio
• Proof check all work before reverting to client to ensure that it’s accurate on brand and strategy
• Liaise with production, creative, data and digital departments in terms of deliverables, timing, costs and process issues
• Put together and manage timing plans per job
• Ensure cost estimates are checked before submitting to client
• Understand the client’s brand, their competitors and their business objectives as shared with the agency
• Knowing to whom and when to escalate matters internally and at client
• Know how to priorities jobs: urgent vs important
• Understand the processes (production, data, postal, fulfilment, interactive etc.)
• Present creative to client in a way that best sells the strategy and creative
• See all projects through to conclusion: confirmed mail date, seeds, samples, test results, email reports etc.

Requirements
• A Degree in Marketing/ Science
• An interest in working in a healthcare agency

Desired Skills
• Act professionally
• Good communication and people skills
• Be proactive, responsible and an informed marketer
• Be a team member (draw on the strength of others and offer support where possible)
• Solve problems creatively (be solutions driven)
• Always act in the interest of the agency
• Learn from others, learn from experience, learn from repetition, learn from questioning and share your knowledge
• Develop trust with your client
• Take responsibility