Advertising executive jobs

There are several different job titles in advertising jobs, including advertising account manager, art director, copywriter, media buyer and media planners.

Account executives provide a communication link between clients and the advertising agency. Their role is to liaise between the client and agency staff to relay and coordinate advertising campaigns. The communication with clients often continues day to day basis throughout a campaign. They manage administrative and campaign work, making sure everything is completed on time and within the budget. You would usually be reporting to an account manager.

This type of advertising job can see you handling up to four client accounts, depending on the size of your agency. In bigger agencies they can afford to focus more on individual campaigns, so do not assign more than one or two at a time.

Typical advertising job description

Advertising account executives develop campaigns. Tasks can involve the following:

• Emailing, phoning and meeting clients to chat about and identify their advertising wishes
• working with agency colleagues to come up with an advertising campaign that meets the brief and budget
• accompanied by the account manager you need to present campaign concepts and budget ideas to the client
• speak to the media, creative and research departments in your agency, and assist with conceptualising marketing strategies
• act as the link between the client and the agency by maintaining regular contact, ensuring proper communication
• discussing the details of a campaign with clients and agency staff
• presenting work to clients for their approval or to flag problems
• you need to manage the budget and costs
• write reports for agency clients
• monitoring the campaign’s performance
• daily administrative tasks
• ‘pitching’, along with other agency staff, to try and gain new business contracts

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