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We’re looking for a driven, confident, and quick-thinking Digital Executive to work on one of the most important and exciting parts of Sky’s business – Sky Entertainment. This product area spans all of Sky’s key programming such as Gangs of London, Brassic,, X and X as well as the corporate and environmental initiative aspects of the business. The candidate should have a general understanding of the media industry, it’s workings and have a passion for digital media specifically.

About the role

Our Digital Executives are responsible for the operational delivery of the team’s output across Display and Social, meaning you will work closely with media owners, clients and third-party partners for campaign management, optimisation, reporting and reconciliation. Strategically, you will be responsible for delivering best in class campaign performance, setting up and managing social campaigns across a host of platforms, analysing performance, and ensuring the admin fundamentals within the team set our agency and client up for success.

The role will work closely with multiple day to day clients, such as marketing groups, social and digital specific in-house teams. Candidates will be expected to work collaboratively with all, show a real passion and expertise for the work and presenting skills are essential.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to the Digital Account Manager

3 best things about the job

  1. Delivering step changing work on one of the biggest advertisers in the UK, on one of the most exciting and innovative product areas
  2. Working with the best talent in the industry, both internally at MediaCom and externally at Sky to strive for better
  3. Opportunity to build and grow their career in a supportive, award winning agency with a host of training and support frameworks

Measures of success

In three months, you would have

  • Mastered the basics of the Sky account and the ways of working.
  • Taken ownership of our reporting processes.
  • Began to build relationships with internal and external stakeholers
  • Fed into response to brief presentations
  • Got involved in quarterly & campaign planning, decided partner spends / phasing.
  • Become confident at activating our Social activity.

In six months, you would have

  • Contributed to and supported on client calls
  • Started to take more ownership for briefs and recommendations
  • Developed a strong relationship with our more junior clients. Be their go to person for anything digital
  • Delivered brilliant work to the client

Responsibilities of the role

Clients

  • Develop strong relationships with clients you have contact with, be actively engaged, personable and accessible
  • Ensure an understanding of the client’s business and competitor landscape
  • Respond to smaller briefs independently
  • Work on proposals based on media owner ideas/solutions
  • Re-working proposals based on client or planner feedback/tweaks to brief
  • Maintain strong relationships with media owners

What you will need

  • Desire to drive performance and improve efficiencies across a high spending client
  • Base understanding of digital landscape and media such as opportunities in market, media partners, how digital works in the wider media system
  • Competent in Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook
  • Problem solving and solutions focused mind-set
  • Strong presentation and communication skills with excellent written & verbal English language skills/grammar
  • A positive and passionate approach that motivates the team around you
  • Independent worker who can own and manage relationships confidently
  • Exceptional attention to detail
  • Ability to train others and encourage knowledge sharing

About MediaCom

MediaCom is the UK’s largest planning and buying agency, with over 1,400 employees across five offices in London, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and Edinburgh.

We believe in People First, Better Results. This means that through investing in our people’s whole-person wellbeing, careers and capabilities and creating a culture of belonging, we achieve brilliant results for both our clients’ businesses and our own. We champion individuality and diversity in our people through an abundance of initiatives and training, and attract and retain the greatest talent in the industry.

Our mission is to See the Bigger Picture for our clients. We apply our unique ‘Systems Thinking’ philosophy and technology to all marketing levers: media, message and data. As a result, we design communication strategies that deliver short term results and help brands build for the future.

MediaCom represents some of the greatest brands in the UK and beyond, both big and small. This includes Sky, British Gas, Sony, Boots, DFS, TUI, The Coca-Cola Company, Tesco and Cancer Research UK. Our client work is celebrated at the industry’s most prestigious ceremonies, and we were named Campaign’s Agency of the Decade for 2009 and 2019.

MediaCom is a member of WPP, the world's largest marketing communications services group, and part of GroupM, WPP’s consolidated media investment management arm. As such, we have access to the richest data, most robust benchmarks and most advanced capabilities in the market. This helps us provide comprehensive solutions to all marketing challenges.