Senior Account Executive

THE ROLE
Were looking for an Earned Travel Food andBeverageSAE to join our team and create standout work that will help make our clients famous.Youllplay a key support role in delivering standout work that helps make our clients famous across travel culture food &beverageand lifestyle sectors working with some of the countrys most recognised brands.

The SAE works closely with Account Directors to create smart earned firstwork andtap into your media contacts and stellar understanding of the Australian media landscape todeliver the best quality work across client program development implementation and reporting meeting and exceeding campaign KPIs and makes a positive contribution to identifying and securing new business for the agency.

For this role you will need todemonstratethat you have your finger on the pulse and are up to date on all the latest trends in culturetravelandF&B. You will understand what makes a story great and have amazing media contacts proven through your experience working within an agency context.

In addition you will have the skills todemonstrateautonomy judgementadaptabilityand responsibility to manage client activities and junior members of the team who help implement them.

We encourage people from diverse backgrounds identities beliefsageand abilities including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply for this or any role with us.

We look forward to meeting you.

Key Responsibilities

Be the wow factor for clients

• Develop and cultivate positive relationships with clients and their stakeholders such as media

• Prepare basic media strategies and programs for clients and make a solid contribution to more complex ones

• Working with senior managers prepare and regularly review and update detailed project/program plans including working timetables of activity to ensure successful implementation and achievement of KPIs

Bring your Black Book of media and influencer contacts

• Develop and cultivate a wide range of relationships across mainstream and specialist media relevant to client base

• Bring your creativity developing uniquerelevantand newsworthy story angles

• Cultivate strong relationships with social influencers relevant to client base

• Develop high quality media releases pitches and materials including research writing editingcollatingand distributing through relevant social media channels

• Monitor and report on client and industry media activity ensuring media coverage is provided in the best quality and as quickly as possible

Be an event manager extraordinaire

• Plan and implement events including research venue catering talent selection and management theming and decoration speaker briefs and speech writing

• Manage guest listsinvitationsand RSVPs

• Provide quality control issues management and hands on support at the event and professionally interact with clientsstakeholdersand guests

Be a culture driver

• Be a driving force for culture within the agencyand our team; share your knowledge of culture (youth culture subculture internet culture) trends and audiences to fuel culturally meaningful ideas and insights

• Be a force for positive and approachable creativity contribute creatively to projects newbusinessand campaign development

• Bring ideas to the table that will push the creative team the wideragencyand our clients into tomorrow

Be a dynamo part of the Consumer and Brand and wider HAVAS Red team

• Participate as an active and interested team member providing support to colleagues and taking every opportunity presented to learn and develop

• Participate in brainstorms to generate media strategies and story ideas

• Bring your unique self to work and activity add to the teams culture

Skills
WHAT YOU BRING

• Media relations activity

• Event management

• Supporting development of communications plans

• Stakeholder management tasks

• Communications measurement and evaluation

Personal Application

• Uses verbal and non-verbal communication for workplace negotiation

• Demonstrates initiative and proactivity

• Completes tasks within set deadlines with good attention to detail

• Successfully coordinatesnumeroustasks under pressure

• Contributes strongly to team effectiveness and culture

• Clearly outlines problems and suggests solutions

• Proactivelyidentifiespersonal areas for improvement

• Reviews own performance

The Basics

• A degree in Communications Public Relations or Journalism (or similar) would be great (but not mandatory)

• Experience and contacts within the Australian media with key relationships across news lifestyle luxuryfood and beverageand travel

• A minimum two years full-time in agency or similar experience and provenproficiencyto perform tasksto a high standard

Knowledge Requirements
This position requires specific in-depth theoretical and technical knowledge of:

• The communications industrytheoriesand practice

• Australian politics society news mediainfluencersand social media

• The agencys clientstheir industry sectorscustomersand stakeholders/key influencers

• The legal and ethical behavioural expectations of the Australian communication practitioners

Enjoy The Perks That Our Network HasToOffer

• We have active social teams who organise ad-hoc events within the agency teams

• We have an excellent Salary Sacrifice scheme

• We recogniseacknowledgeand celebrate the value and contributions staff have shown at various tenure milestones.

• Summer Fridays allowing you to finish at 3pm on a Friday once all work is complete

• Free yearly flu shots for all staff

• Health and Wellness discounts

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): a confidential counselling coaching and wellbeing servicethatsfree of charge anditsnot only available to you but also to your immediate families

• Birthday Leave:Itsyour special day - have it off on us!

• Community Service leave & Volunteer Leave

• We also have generous parental leave. We offer 12 weeks paid leave for the primary carer plus anadditionalone week per full year of service. We also provide subsidised childcare for the first three

ABOUT HAVAS Red

We are HAVAS global earned-first agency that puts culturalclout creativemagicand strategic insight at the heart of everything we do.

We help brands become part of consumer conversation by thinking bigdifferentand bold with attention-grabbing creative driven by strategic cultural insight that is authentic engaging entertaininginformativeand provocative.

As a global network with over 30 offices worldwide we pride ourselves on our borderless thinking that transcends marketchanneland discipline. From content to social to experiential to influence to editorial our work delivers on every level.