Account Executive

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

12/6/2024

Overview / About Us

We’re The Leith Agency - Scotland’s leading creative agency. We’re a bunch of creative, digitally-minded, content-loving people based in the heart of ‘the world’s coolest neighborhoods’. Established in 1984 on the docks of Edinburgh, Leith has come a long way from its ad agency roots. Ranked the most successful regional creative agency in the UK last year and the 22nd biggest overall, the business now delivers its trademark bold ideas through digital, experiences, social and health, alongside advertising, production and design working with a bunch of incredible clients, including IRN-BRU, Nando’s, The Scottish Government and The Famous Grouse.

Leith is part of Lumanity, a global consultancy with over 1200 employees through the United Kingdom, Europe, United States, and India.

Responsibilities / Position Overview

We’re growing the work we do in the Health & Wellbeing sector and are looking to add a new Account Executive to our team.

We currently work on a range of clients in the UK and internationally. We have ambitious plans to grow the business. Given the nature of the work it will be a bonus for candidates to have language skills.

But more importantly you must be passionate about using communications to help make a difference to the health and well-being of people, from reducing childhood obesity to telling the story of the science behind the world’s most innovative medicines.

You’ll be liaising with our clients:

• Preparing and circulating information for the team and clients
• Maintaining regular contact with clients through calls, meetings, presentations and informally in a proactive way.
• Helping ensure the agency’s standards and reputation in all external dealings are maintained.
  
  

You’ll be working on projects with the team including:

• Briefing internal departments and external suppliers
• Ensure the projects on the team are kept on track and the team and clients are fully informed of project progress.
  
  

Looking after the pennies and the pounds by:

• Keeping accurate and comprehensive financial records for every project being managed.
  
  

Qualifications

The skills and experience you will need:

• Ideally 1 year experience in a similar role
• Ideally language skills in French or other European languages
• Show an interest in working in the creative industries
• Have good written and verbal communication skills
• Relentless attention to detail.
• A problem-solving personality, with the desire to help your colleagues
• Most importantly a passion for creating meaningful work that improves the health and well-being of people.
  
  

Benefits

What’s in it for you?

• You’ll get to work at an award-winning agency with smart people who have a huge variety of skills
• Hybrid and flexible working as well as a nice, airy, cushy office right on The Shore of Leith
• An electric car and cycle to work scheme to save you cash for saving the planet
• Regular company-wide learning sessions and a suite of training courses through our parent company
• Vitality Private Health Insurance
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave and shared parental leave
• Pension plan with employer contributions and much more
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Leith is an equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity. We want everyone working here (or at home) to be able to reach their full potential, feel like they can be themselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of family-friendly and inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, a mentoring scheme, and take an individual and flexible approach to supporting staff from different backgrounds. Please feel free to discuss any working requirements you have in your interview.