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About the Company
We are a leading global communications marketing firm helping business and organisations evolve, promote, and protect their brands and reputations. We are independent and family owned, which allows us the freedom to deliver original thinking and invest in our clients.
We have deep expertise and advise on consumer trends, research, analytics and insights, corporate reputation, health, technology, capital markets, crisis, energy, and government affairs.
About the Team
We create commercial value by delivering campaigns and advisory work for companies and brands that operate in the full glare of the public spotlight and whose reputations shape their businesses.
We have deep industry expertise and advise on integrated media strategy, digital and content production, crisis planning & response, litigation & legal affairs, employee engagement & advocacy, research & analytics, capital markets and government affairs.
We take pride in delivering exceptional work for our clients but, at our core, we are a non-hierarchical team who like to spend time together in and out of the office. We are relentlessly collaborative, and supported by leadership who champion and celebrate our collective achievements.
About the Role
We are looking for an ambitious, motivated, and proactive individual to join the Edelman Corporate Technology team. The Senior Account Executive role requires a candidate with excellent writing, attention to detail and media handling skills, and the ability to drive forward the day to day running of one of Edelman's biggest clients. The ability to act as a main point of contact for the client, support junior team members and collaborate and integrate with other parts of the business will also be key.
Key Responsibilities:
- Excellent eye for what makes a truly great story and broad knowledge of the Indian media landscape and beyond
- The candidate will be a key point of contact for clients and be able to own and lead specific projects as well as day to day account activity
- This will include research and vetting of executive speaking and media opportunities, development of executive briefing materials, drafting of LinkedIn content and issues and crisis management
- Playing a key role in the research, planning and execution of key business milestones
- Practical and solid understanding of the earned, owned, paid and social media space and how to incorporate these channels into client plans for holistic communications programmes
- Producing content; writing/editing press releases, social media content, briefing documents and communications plans
- It will also include supporting on new business pitches with research, slide development and media/social insights and contributing to internal marketing for the corporate team
- Finally, the candidate will be competent in handling multiple clients, have exceptional attention to detail, can operate in a fast-paced team and will need to be able to demonstrate their breadth of experience across traditional media, social and digital
Key Requirements:
- Desire to work as part of a large team in a busy, fast paced and highly motivated working environment
- Excellent verbal and written skills, ability to articulate point of view with confidence and gravitas
- Proven track record in prioritising workload as well as supporting junior team members
- Ability to service multiple clients, work in a matrix structure, and prioritise deliverables
- Ability to balance ‘quick hits’ and longer-term strategy and understanding the difference
- Team player, collaborative, non-hierarchical
- Ability to manage both up and down and take overall responsibility of day to day client deliverables
- Experience of integrating with different practices / teams on cross-business work, ability to work collaboratively with a variety of people to meet client expectations
- Interest in current affairs, news, international business, and consumes media in all forms
- A creative problem solver
- Delivery-driven with ability to take responsibility of tasks and accounts
- A desire to share previous expertise and experience to enhance work of the team
- Keen to carve out distinctive role and use own initiative to help the running of the team
We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
