Account Executive - Publicis Sport and Entertainment

Company Description

Publicis Sport & Entertainment is a wholly owned division of Publicis Groupe. Driving value for brands and rights holders in sport and entertainment, we are headquartered in London with offices in fifteen markets around the world. Adopting the Publicis Groupe’s Power of One model, Publicis Sport & Entertainment is active across the entire value chain, from strategic consulting and research to creative leadership, content creation, PR, social/digital activation and experiential execution. We offer partners a unified, client-centred model that gives them access to all the Groupe’s expertise, tools, and insight that has been built through work for some of the biggest brands and rights holders over the last 20 years. Publicis Sport & Entertainment works with a number of leading brands and rights holders including; Gillette, Samsung, Disney, TikTok, World Athletics, FIFA, IOC and UEFA.

Our Commitment
Publicis Sport & Entertainment is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce and therefore strongly encourages applications from underrepresented groups.  We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of their background.

Job Description

You will be applied to a range of Consulting client projects and could involve work on multiple clients and brands.

From the identification of partnerships, to negotiation of value exchanges, activation of rights including asset creation, PR and effectiveness assessment. Publicis Sport & Entertainment’s work for brands crosses a wide range of industry sectors and covers the spectrum of sports and entertainment properties and media on both national and local market levels.

As an Account Executive, you will be involved in some or all of these. Your day to day at any given time might range from supporting the delivery of a strategy recommendations for a client looking to reach a specific audience, assisting with a partnership negotiation all the way through to managing talent on a content shoot, and working to ensure a campaign is measured effectively.

• This role sits within the Consulting side of the business, so you will act as an interface between brands and the world of sport and entertainment.
• Provide multi-channel partnership solutions with a creative mindset.
• Manage demanding stakeholder needs, as you will be dealing with high profile brands and senior clients.
• Ability to capture and present ideas in a succinct way to our clients.

Qualifications

• Given the nature of the partnership investments our clients make, a passion for sport and entertainment is important.
• Professional etiquette when dealing with high profile clients.
• We work on complex projects with multiple stakeholders so an organisational skills are essential.
• Being comfortable using, manipulating and applying data, given the nature of some of our outputs, is important.

Additional information

If you have any  adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with the recruiter who contacts you.

Employee benefits

• 25 days holiday increasing to 30 days after 5 years’ service plus bank holidays
• Enhanced Parental leave packages
• Summer Fridays
• Work our World, our flexible working programme
• Birthday day off
• Technology, shopping and local business discounts including Westfield
• Headline – our Mental Health Programme and many more