Account Coordinator

ACCOUNT COORDINATOR

M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment is a full-service creative communications agency operating across lifestyle, sport, entertainment, fashion, technology and beverage.

Our approach is an integrated system of creative and communications services, executing both always-on brand communications as well as creative campaigns from ideation through to design, production, execution and social, via our comms, marketing and influencer specialists who collaborate alongside our in-house studio. We create content across a variety of mediums including still, video, print, experiential, and many more. Our team is a collective of experienced and integrity-driven individuals who believe success is found through navigating, creating and leading meaningful change.

Our agency philosophy - Brutal Simplicity of Thought - is at the heart of everything we do, ensuring that we create tangible impact for our clients.

It is our belief that brilliant work can only be achieved with diversity of minds and thought, and an inclusive culture that allows everyone to bring their true selves to work. When people have the permission to be themselves, they will bring their very best selves.

M&C Saatchi Sport and Entertainment North America employs some of the brightest minds in the business. We believe investing in our people and their development ensures they consistently progress.

Your Role:

The Account Coordinator role provides a strong foundation for our account teams and ensures that campaigns are run as efficiently and professionally as possible. As an Account Coordinator, you are the key support on the account, responsible for assisting the AE's, AS's and AD's throughout daily tasks. You will be included in a variety of meetings / events and given the chance to contribute creative ideas and experience the many different things that our industry has to offer.

Core requirements include:

• Be a dedicated, positive and enthusiastic team player
• Proactively support senior members of the team and maintain responsibility and accountability for your work
• Immerse yourself in accounts, showing a keenness to learn and passion for the business
• Go above and beyond to demonstrate your commitment to the accounts and to push yourself towards new achievements
• Ensure that work presented to senior members of the team is of an appropriate standard - typos and grammatical errors are unacceptable
• Manage workload effectively, meeting deadlines and always flagging any potential issues to senior members of the team
• Approach practical tasks with a 'make it happen' attitude and explore all routes to deliver requests from your team

Media Management:

• Show an understanding and passion of the media landscape, especially in relation to the specific needs of your client
• Build and cultivate relationships with key media and maintain an extensive network
• Assist in ongoing editorial pitching on behalf of clients, overseeing opportunities from initial sell in to final delivery
• Continually monitor media for all client coverage / articles of interest and flag / report to team and clients in a timely manner
• Assist in the development of media materials (e.g. press releases, media alerts, pitches, media lists, media updates, coverage recaps, etc.)

Campaign Execution:

• Support AAE's, AE's, SAE's, AS's by managing day-to-day tasks and responsibilities as assigned
• Manage status reports and recaps to ensure that they are completed in a regular and timely fashion

Client Services:

• Work with team to handle client requests and communication promptly
• Flag anything that may be of interest to your team and client - competitor activity, news relating to brand ambassadors, media insights etc.
• Show genuine interest in your clients' business and overarching industry

Creativity and Industry Insight:

• Participate and offer ideas in brainstorms and group discussions
• Become immersed in the competitor landscape and creative industry
• Keep your team updated with any industry news

Social and Digital:

• Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of social media platforms and the digital landscape
• Monitor both client and competitor channels on a regular basis

Administrative Work:

• Take ownership of essential administrative tasks and deliver them to a high standard
• Develop clear and detailed recaps from all client calls highlighting all discussions and identifying next steps to share with the team
• Manage day-to-day team administration (e.g. status docs completed and shared before calls, all docs from clients saved on server, meeting rooms booked, etc.)
• Oversee all client administration (e.g. reporting, coverage documents, status reports, ensuring folders are kept well organized, etc.)

Salary range is $45,000-$50,000 and is commensurate with qualifications and experience. All candidates must have the ability to work in the US; we are unable to sponsor any work visas for this role.

ABOUT M+C SAATCHI SPORT & ENTERTAINMENT

We connect brands to consumers through the things people love, building cultural power through passions. We have a global team of passion specialists who live and breathe sport and entertainment and are part of the cultures and sub-cultures around, and across, those spaces. The most awarded in the sector, we have panoramic capabilities across Sponsorship & Partnership amplification, PR, Social, Influencer, Experiential and Content Creation, creating fully integrated campaigns for brands in, or wanting to enter, the sport and entertainment spaces.

ABOUT M+C SAATCHI GROUP

M+C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment, NA as part of M+C Saatchi Group has pledged its commitment to create a company that values difference, with an inclusive culture. As part of this M+C Saatchi Group continues to be an Equal Opportunity Employer which does not and shall not discriminate, celebrates diversity and bases all hiring and promotion decisions solely on merit, without regard for any personal characteristics.

If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please make us aware as part of your application.

All employee information is kept confidential according to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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