Senior Account Executive

New York City, NY (On-site)

$85K/yr – $105K/yrSenior LevelOther

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end production delivery and client-facing outputs with a focus on timelines, budgets, and strategic framing across government-focused accounts.

  • Own delivery across production, risk spotting, scope changes, and smarter ways of working.
  • Shape briefs and outputs with strategy and creative teams, and confidently discuss research, audiences, and channel approaches.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the delivery.
  • Oversee timelines, budgets, estimates, approvals, invoicing, and reconciliations. Manage production with minimal oversight, spotting risks, scope changes, and smarter ways of working.
  • Elevate the work.
  • Play an active role in shaping presentations and outputs. Help ensure every piece of work is on brief, insight-driven, and strategically sound.
  • Engage confidently with clients.
  • Present clearly and articulately. Lead constructive discussions around feedback, filter and debrief thoughtfully, and push back where appropriate in a clear and solutions-focused way.
  • Champion strategy.
  • Understand the broader strategic direction of your accounts and work closely with strategy and creative teams to shape briefs and outputs. Be confident discussing research, evaluation, audiences, and channel approaches.
  • Build strong relationships.
  • Develop trusted relationships with clients and cross-agency teams. Represent creative and strategy perspectives effectively, and demonstrate strong knowledge of relevant regions, sectors, and current affairs.
  • Contribute to agency life.
  • Support cross-agency collaboration, mentor more junior colleagues, and contribute positively to team culture. Take part in recruitment conversations and wider agency initiatives.
  • Manage up and down.
  • Escalate issues appropriately, act as a reliable point of contact for production and delivery, and provide day-to-day leadership so senior team members can rely on you with confidence.
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M+C Saatchi UK

Creators and curators of Cultural Power

Founded in 1995
London, England, GBR
918 employees (228 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
4.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
57.2%
Direct
31.1%
Referral
8.3%
Social
2.5%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~918

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
117 (13% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
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