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We are looking for an enthusiastic, creative, curious Intern Account Executive to join our M&S teams. You will be working across Marks & Spencer a key account at Mindshare. Specifically Marks and Spencer splits into two client divisions: Food and Clothing & Home.
Across Connections Planning you will work with the other Planners as the gate keeper of the brief and assist the team on coordinating input from the wider Mindshare team (Strategy, Buying channel teams, Live Planning, Data & Insights, and many more). More info on the two divisions of M&S as follows:
On Food you will work on helping to boost seasonal food moments across the year (Valentine’s Day, Easter, Halloween, Xmas etc.), ensuring M&S is considered as the go-to for quality food.
M&S Foods is one of the most iconic British brands in the market, from “This is not just” to Percy Pig, with a heritage spanning across 139 years. As a Planner, you are central to the success of M&S Foods, you’ll be helping to shape their media approach through your strategic thinking and campaign planning, to tackle different challenges in a fast paced industry.
This varies from delivering the biggest advertising moment of the year, Christmas, to creating campaigns that show off the journey of food from farms to the foodhall, to ensuring we attract customers into the Sparks app. Underpinning these campaigns, M&S are entering an exciting new phase of transformation, as they aim to increase the level of personalisation that is deployed across their marketing, meaning we have a lot of opportunity to refresh the way we approach our audiences.
From a Clothing & Home perspective you will be helping to shape the reputation of the brand with a focus on driving Clothing & Home style perceptions. Clothing & Home also has a strong seasonal focus, with emphasis on campaigns across Spring/Summer, Autumn/Winter collections and Xmas.
Clothing & Home is a successful growth area within the M&S business, they are building on their credentials for style, alongside their established trust for quality. In this role you will be central in supprting the crafting of responses across the Clothing and Home BUs (Business Units) – specifically Womenswear, Menswear, Kidswear, Beauty, Loungewear/Lingerie and Home.
About the role
The Connections Planning team plays a crucial role in designing the audiences, connections, content and measurement that deliver the most innovative and effective solutions to clients. To do this requires a team of people with a high degree of knowledge of the UK media market and a deep understanding of the role of technology in driving opportunities to target audiences, its impact on the connections and content that will engage people, and how media can be measured and optimised.
Members of the team understand consumer trends and are able to translate insights and strategic direction into actionable media solutions. They interact with a wide range of other teams including Intelligence and Strategic Planning, the specialist channel teams that execute the media, and the Live Planning team that optimises across all media channels.
Working closely with and supporting Connections Planners along with Strategic planning and Client Leadership makes up a large proportion of an Account Executives’ time and means you will have the opportunity to learn how Mindshare approaches the definition and design of the audiences, connections, content, and measurement that comprise our media solutions. The bulk of your time will be spent supporting the team in planning exciting, award-winning campaigns as well as working with channel specialists to make those plans a reality.
About you
Prior media/marketing experience is not a pre-requisite. A combination of “hands-on” experience and a structured training programme means Intern Account Executives gain a comprehensive knowledge of how a media agency business operates and an understanding that is the cornerstone of a successful career in the media industry.
Required key skills & behaviours
- Enthusiastic and positive with a genuine interest in a career in marketing and advertising
- Enthusiastic, reliable and excellent team player
- Inquisitive and curious with a drive to really get under the skin of our client’s marketing
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organisation skills incl. time and project management
- High level of comfort using data – both small and large datasets
- The ability to analyse data to discover insights
- Comfortable working in teams and will be able to proactively engage and collaborate with peers
- Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint and Word
What we can offer you
- A strong salary commensurate and in-line with relevant experience
- 25 days annual leave and your birthday day off
- Ongoing internal and external training opportunities
- Flexible working
- The opportunity to attend industry conferences and awards nights
- Career and personal progression
- Private Healthcare
- Excellent pension matching structure
About Mindshare
Mindshare is a leading global marketing and media services network with billings in excess of £23billion worldwide. We work with some of the most famous businesses and brands in the UK – such as Unilever, Ford, KFC, Marks & Spencer, Volvo and TK Maxx.
The Mindshare network consists of 116 offices across 86 countries throughout the USA, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific; each dedicated to forging competitive marketing advantage for businesses and their brands.
Our approach
Our ambition is to drive Good Growth for our clients. Good Growth is about delivering growth that is enduring and is considerate of people and planet. Media is a powerful force, and we need to be mindful of the responsibility that it brings.
We help our clients make better decisions by ensuring we use media in a trusted, inclusive and sustainable way. We recognise that in order to drive Good Growth, we need to place people at the heart of everything we do. Understanding people, not demographics allows us to place media meaningfully into their lives.
Good Growth is a big ambition – one which inspires change for the industry but also for our agency and we achieve this through our values of Energy, Empathy and Impact.
Working for Mindshare
Our brilliant people allow us to deliver our ambition. We invest heavily in their development to ensure they are progressing and thriving wherever they work in our business.
We also think inspiration for our staff is key and our pinnacle and flagship event of the year, Huddle, connects people, opinions and perspectives across borders and is all about learning something new and participating.
Committed to diversity & inclusion
We have a big dream at Mindshare, to become the most inclusive place to work in the country! This will take time but the whole agency is passionate about making it a reality.
To support this, we currently have 8 Employee Resource Groups available for our people to join and be a part of including, Roots, PrideM, Women in Business, Enable, Declassify, 0Borders, ADAM and Working Parents. These groups hold the agency to account for making progress and, along with our Mental Health Allies, design and lead events and initiatives that help us create a welcoming environment to all and a place where everyone can be their most confident self.
