Account Executive

We have an opening within our Solutions division for an Account Executive to join our team here in our head office, One Canada Square in the heart of Canary Wharf. For this role we are keen to speak with highly efficient and career driven graduates or current media sales executives who are looking to start their career in media sales. You will be a strong communicator, commercial thinker and someone who has the ability to build relationships with key agency clients.

As an Account Executive, you support our Digital Account Managers in driving digital revenues across all aspects of the Reach Digital portfolio and product offering, ensuring reporting is accurate and prospects are kept up to date on a daily basis. We are looking for candidates that are eager to learn our industry and will strive to progress to become an Account Manager themselves within 2 - 3 years.

Who are we? We are Reach...

Reach Solutions is the team that brings together Reach's editorial output with media agencies and clients, to collaboratively create strong connections between our valuable audience, content and advertiser brands. Our role is to connect our advertising customers with 'Modal Britain', the mass majority audience that we best represent, entertain and inform, and on whose behalf we campaign.

Our creative approach enables us to develop tailored marketing solutions that utilise our unique National and Regional, Print and Digital portfolio of media products. Our solutions span many influential news brands which together reach 1 in 2 adults in the UK every week.

Every day our newsbrands - national and regional, in print and online - reach millions of people up and down the country. We are the UK's largest news publisher, with influential national newsbrands such as the Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Sunday People, Daily Record, and more than 100 distinguished regional titles.

• Have day to day relationships with Agencies within a portfolio
• Support the Account Managers to enable them to develop and retain revenue-influencing relationships with customers, both existing and new
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with Operations, Trading, Finance and other teams within Reach Solutions
• Take responsibility for own personal development, including the building of PDP and attendance of Power Hours and other training or L&D sessions
• Build relationships with Agencies and Trading Desks where appropriate
• Drive the demand for Programmatic and Digital Direct Business, in line with the agency strategy
• Understand specific advertiser's strategies to help then build bespoke, tailored solutions
• Maintain an up to date and an accurate pipeline for business
• Help forecast and report digital and mobile revenue as part of the overall digital revenue forecast on a weekly basis
• Represent Reach Solutions positively within the wider Reach Plc business

• Highly numerate and a clear commercial thinker, able to identify and maximise revenue opportunities
• Organised and efficient
• Ability to build relationships with key agency personnel
• A strong communicator
• An advocate of our culture, personifying Reach Solutions principles and behaviours including Collaboration, Imagination, Determination, Excellence & Professionalism.
• High-impact, engaging personality with the energy to effect change and influence outcomes
• Strong working knowledge of the Reach Plc portfolio
• Understanding of how Reach Solutions products fit into wider UK media marketplace
• Effective operator, gets things done well and with good pace

We strongly believe the people we work alongside is one of our biggest benefits to working here at Reach Solutions. The sense of community, and working as one team is paramount to our success and employee satisfaction on a daily basis. You will also gain the following additional benefits:

• Competitive salary + Bonus
• 25 days annual leave (excluding Bank Holidays)
• Company Pension scheme.
• Access to a whole host of voluntary flexible benefits inc holiday purchase, childcare vouchers, cycle scheme, staff discounts, season tickets & parking loans, discounted cinema and retail vouchers and an employee assistance programme.
• Onsite Gym
• One of the best skyline views of London you can get as your backdrop every day!
  
  

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