Senior Account Executive

Agency :

Red Agency

Job Description :

 THE ROLE 
We’re looking for an Earned Travel, Food and Beverage SAE to join our team and create standout work that will help make our clients famous. You’ll play a key support role in delivering standout work that helps make our clients famous across travel, culture, food & beverage and lifestyle sectors, working with some of the country’s most recognised brands.  

The SAE works closely with Account Directors to create smart earned first work and tap into your media contacts and stellar understanding of the Australian media landscape to deliver 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 to demonstrate that you have your finger on the pulse and are up to date on all the latest trends in culture, travel and F&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 to demonstrate autonomy, judgement, adaptability and responsibility to manage client activities and junior members of the team who help implement them.  

 
We encourage people from diverse backgrounds, identities, beliefs, age and 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 unique, relevant and newsworthy story angles 
• Cultivate strong relationships with social influencers relevant to client base 
• Develop high quality media releases, pitches and materials, including research, writing, editing, collating and 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 lists, invitations and RSVPs 
• Provide quality control, issues management and hands on support at the event, and professionally interact with clients, stakeholders and guests 

Be a culture driver 

• Be a driving force for culture within the agency and 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, new business and campaign development 
• Bring ideas to the table that will push the creative team, the wider agency and 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 team’s 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 coordinates numerous tasks under pressure 
• Contributes strongly to team effectiveness and culture 
• Clearly outlines problems and suggests solutions 
• Proactively identifies personal 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, luxury, food and beverage and travel 
• A minimum two years full-time in agency or similar experience and proven proficiency to perform tasks required to a high standard 

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

• The communications industry, theories and practice 
• Australian politics, society, news, media, influencers and social media 
• The agency's clients’, their industry sectors, customers and stakeholders/key influencers 
• The legal and ethical behavioural expectations of the Australian communication practitioners 

Enjoy The Perks That Our Network Has To Offer 

• We have active social teams who organise ad-hoc events within the agency teams 
• We have an excellent Salary Sacrifice scheme 
• We recognise, acknowledge and 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 service that’s free of charge, and it’s not only available to you, but also to your immediate families 
• Birthday Leave: It’s your 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 an additional one 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 cultural clout, creative magic and strategic insight at the heart of everything we do. 

 
We help brands become part of consumer conversation by thinking big, different and bold, with attention-grabbing creative driven by strategic cultural insight that is authentic, engaging, entertaining, informative and provocative. 

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

 
The pride we have in our work goes hand in hand with a culture that’s passionate, vibrant and bloody good fun. We believe that people are our most vital asset because they are different. Different to one another and different to the norm. Diverse perspectives fuel our curiosity and fresh thinking.  

About Havas

The HAVAS Village is a truly unique proposition – creative, digital, content, PR, media and partnerships, all under one roof. Our philosophy is to work together seamlessly, building teams around our clients’ needs not our own. We are made up of a number of specialist agencies in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. 

Our mission: To make a meaningful difference to the brands, the businesses and the lives of the people with whom we work. HAVAS is a Great Place to Work Certified Company! 

At HAVAS, we are committed to building a future that is inclusive to all, where you can bring your whole self to work and feel valued, respected, and supported to succeed. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds, identities, beliefs, age, and abilities, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, to apply for this or any role with us. 

We look forward to meeting you! 

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Contract Type :

Permanent

Here at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.