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Zenith Global are the central team, primarily based in London, supporting our local Zenith markets, leading new business efforts, developing thought-leadership, and driving network development for our 250 offices across 95 countries with over 8,000 staff worldwide.

 
We house a large team of multi-faceted communications planners, digital and innovation specialists and client leadership teams. Our global client portfolio comprises a range of category leaders including Reckitt, TikTok, Edrington, Coty, Electrolux and Nestlé.
 

The Senior Account Executive will be a core part of the central EMEA client team for TikTok, working predominantly on account team support. They will be able to understand and manage global relationship with other markets and actively communicate with different stakeholders within the agency group. With some support on strategy, and digital disciplines across the delivery of best-in-class planning, activation, and local market execution. This role is an exciting opportunity to work across a wide variety of disciplines that will allow the right candidate to learn and grow. The majority of the role will be spent on account management and coordination with a small portion of time spent supporting the digital & strategy team.

This candidate will be expected to support the team to drive key client projects that will include cross channel strategy development, markets coordination, supporting digital operations projects, and help identify innovation opportunities.

The role is an exciting opportunity to work on an award-winning client that is transforming its business. ByteDance is a technology company operating a range of content platforms that inform, educate, entertain and inspire people across languages, cultures and geographies. TikTok, a product under the ByteDance portfolio is one of the fastest growing global entertainment brands focused on short form content. This role is to primarily support TikTok and other ByteDance product that falls under Zenith’s remit across a number of exciting projects.

The right candidate will be able to work closely with (and receiving great exposure to) various teams and stakeholders giving her/him the opportunity to learn across agency functions and be part of multiple exiting digital projects.

Key Responsibilities:

1.       Market Coordination & Network Management

• Work with local market teams to share relevant information and ensure understanding & adoption of such strategies.
• Ensure monthly market call presentations are run smoothly and to collate and distribute feedback and plans.
• Support Account Manager in ensuring local markets are following the Global strategy and executing best in class plans at a local level.
• Work closely with internal central team and local markets to coordinate and deliver excellent campaign management.

2.       Client Servicing & Management

• Support the Account Manager in managing key client stakeholders across key tasks and markets.
• Developing relationships with internal stakeholders to be seen as a key point of reference on the TikTok team.

3.       Planning & Strategy

• Support the Account Manager to produce and create best in class ways of working and operations.
• Provide support on overseeing the successful implementation of the strategy and be a key player in ensuring campaigns are timely and reported on effectively.
• Support the Senior Digital Director and Global Account Lead in identifying innovations in data & technology as well as identifying new vendors on the market for central buy testing.

4.       Develop and maintain relationships

• Build relationships and establish the smooth running of key stakeholder groups: central Zenith account & planning and activation teams, and central/local Zenith activation teams.
• Report minutes and points of discussions when participating in meetings with client and internal stakeholders.
• Help to organise diaries and meetings for the central team.
• Be the leader in taking weekly status notes and following up on key actions with the central Zenith team.

The ideal candidate will be someone that has an interest in marketing with a thirst to expand their knowledge and expertise across multiple channels. They will have some degree of knowledge/experience in marketing and be savvy with numbers with a strong proficiency in Excel.

They will be interested in understanding how consumers think, feel and behave in relation to products and services; and in how technology can enable brands to engage with and influence this behaviour. The individual will enjoy working with data and have strong attention to detail. They will be a team player who is keen to learn and is results-driven. They will be ready to take responsibility for the effective implementation of activity within their accounts and be eager to share their knowledge with the wider team.

Experience Required

Preferred background in media/marketing with experience across:

• Understanding and/or usage example of media channels (e.g. TV, radio, print, website, search, social, online video, etc.)
• Proficiency in Excel.
• Experience managing multiple work streams to delivery to deadlines for multiple stakeholders.

A successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following skills and abilities:

• Project management and communication skills to be able to engage with multiple stakeholders to drive delivery of projects.
• Highly organized with previous examples of delivering projects in a timely and effective manner.
• Ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment while ensuring high standard of work.
• Evidence of being solution driven and innovative with how they drive performance and delivery.
• Comfortable in multi-cultural environment.

Desirable experience (but not required)

• Previous working experience in media agency / marketing environment or relevant.  
• Proficiency in other languages, a plus.
• Experience in handling Tech clients, managing In App campaigns, a plus.

What You Will Get:

• Free Private Healthcare for you and your family
• Work Your World for up to 6 weeks a year
• A very rich Family Friendly policy
• Birthday Day Off
• Season Ticket Loan
• Work From Home Allowance
• Flexible working
• Volunteering Leave
• Generous Pension
• Income Protection Plan
• Summer Fridays

At Zenith Global, we believe that fostering an inclusive culture where all talent can thrive makes our company stronger and help drive invention in the work we do for our clients better. We also believe it enables a greater idea exchange that fuels innovation and best reflects diverse consumer experiences.

We are committed to encouraging our talent to participate in Publicis Groupe’s wide variety of talent engagement and inclusion programming, which includes professional development experiences and participation in the company’s many business resource groups. These include VivaWomen!, Égalité, MOCA (Men Of Colour Alliance) and more than a dozen others that are thriving across our network.

Through advocacy, education and inclusion we foster greater collaboration among our people, which in turn inspires work that provides better experiences for our clients and their consumers.