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Closing date: 17th July 2025Reporting to:&nbsp;Senior/account manager This is an exciting opportunity to join our London team as an Account Executive or Senior Account Executive, working across both consumer and trade accounts.We are looking for capable and confident operators with a good, but still developing, understanding of the required basic media and communication skills and who know the media tools available to create the required media coverage in all PR areas. AccountabilitiesAgency Business<ul><li>Understand and meet guidelines on best business practices, including utilisation, daily timesheets, accurate billing, timely expense reports etc</li><li>May make presentations to small groups, both internal and to clients</li><li>Participate in professional development training and identify and utilise other opportunities for learning and continual improvement</li><li>Actively share knowledge</li><li>Support new business teams as required</li></ul>Client Service<ul><li>Implement and begin to manage day-to-day activities in partnership with clients</li><li>Read key publications daily across both trade and consumer titles. Share findings and implications for the business with your client, team or broader agency as appropriate.</li><li>Understand and stay up to date with clients’ businesses and industry news (issues, marketing objectives, technology and products, competition, marketplace trends), by reading business plans, researching the marketplace, attending meetings and asking questions</li><li>Develop organised, professional, concise written materials and emails that provide “value-added” relevance to the client’s business</li></ul>Media Relations<ul><li>Serve as day-to-day contact with influencers on client’s behalf</li><li>Research, understand and anticipate influencers’ interests, needs and preferences in order to provide value-added service to editors, to brief clients and to build relationships</li><li>Understand&nbsp;the trade press and liaise with journalists to provide information relevant to their audiences</li><li>Proactively negotiate client inclusion in coverage; propose story ideas, benchmark criteria for product reviews; educate on broader marketplace themes and schedule meetings</li><li>Solicit feedback from influencers regarding clients’ competition and industry</li><li>Reactively answer influencers’ questions, coordinate requests and provide useful information</li><li>Research and draft press releases</li><li>Mailing list preparation and coordination of mailings</li></ul>Digital Skills<ul><li>Update social media channels</li><li>Identify appropriate social media channels to support client needs</li><li>Monitor social media opportunities</li></ul>People Management<ul><li>May coach, mentor and motivate work placements or trainees</li></ul>Press Cuttings<ul><li>Manage cuttings service for allocated clients</li><li>Monitor press opportunities and feature/story angles for weekly media summary</li></ul> Knowledge, skills and experience<ul><li>Previous Public Relations or similar industry experience in both Trade and Consumer (12 months)</li><li>Digital campaign and social media experience in a Public Relations environment</li><li>An active interest in the relevant client sectors, including both trade and consumer</li></ul> If this role is of interest to you, send your CV to Ellie Kitcatt by clicking the 'Apply' button.We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.&nbsp;Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.&nbsp;

Wild Card

Account executive / senior account executive

Closing date for applications: Sunday 20th July at 11.59pm. Please make sure to review the 'To apply' section in detail at the bottom of this role description.Salary: London Living WageStart date: September 2025Duration: 15 weeksWorking hours: 9am - 5.30pm, Monday - FridayLocation: Hybrid with at least 2 days per week in the London office Are you looking to begin a creative career? Want to gain an insight into how a global advertising agency operates? Don't miss this exciting opportunity to join McCann Health as an IGNITE intern.Part of the IPG Health network, <a href="https://ipghealth.com/" target="_blank">McCann Health London</a> is one of the most awarded healthcare communications agencies. We are guided by our founding philosophy, Truth Well Told, and united by one vision: to help our clients’ brands and businesses play a meaningful role in people’s health. We combine science, creativity and strategy to deliver best-in-class services to some of the world’s top, as well as emerging, health and wellness brands.&nbsp;We do this by challenging convention and bringing to life smart, creative ideas that push boundaries and leave the world a healthier place than we found it.In recent years McCann Health London has been named European Health Agency of the Year at the London International Awards, won Grand Prixes and Golds at Cannes Lions and featured in AdWeek’s Top 25 global campaigns.The team at McCann Health are excited to be running the IGNITE programme again, a 15-week long paid internship that supports people looking to begin creative careers, regardless of background or experience. &nbsp;What you will learn&nbsp;<ul><li>An introduction to how a global advertising agency operates</li><li>World-class mentoring from award-winning Creatives</li><li>An introduction to the Creative, Design and Studio teams</li><li>How to dream up and execute campaigns</li><li>Experience of responding to a live client brief</li><li>How to create a pitch deck, client presentation or pipeline</li><li>How to develop an idea/prototype and tell a story of a brand or non-profit</li><li>How to adopt a fresh approach to problem-solving</li><li>Support a&nbsp;McCann Global Health brief where you will team up with global colleagues</li></ul> &nbsp;What we're looking for<ul><li>A genuine interest in communications and the creative industry</li><li>A passion for creative discipline</li><li>A natural conceptual thinker with loads of ideas</li><li>Good communication skills, both written and verbal</li><li>Strong attention to detail</li><li>You must have the right to work in the UK</li></ul> &nbsp;To apply<ul><li>Log in to your Creative Access account or register today to apply for this opportunity</li><li>Upload your CV and cover letter (including questions outlined below) as one document</li><li>It’s optional to share an example of creative work that you're most proud of alongside your CV, if you have one</li><li>Applications without a tailored cover letter will not be accepted</li><li>Once submitted, you can no longer amend your application, so proof-read carefully</li><li>Do not contact or apply via the company directly</li><li>Please email any queries about this role to Creative Access at this address:&nbsp;<a href="mailto:recruit@creativeaccess.org.uk" target="_blank">recruit@creativeaccess.org.uk</a></li></ul> &nbsp;Please answer the following questions as part of your application:<ul><li>Imagine you had to pitch a reality TV show based on your dreams. What’s the concept?</li><li>If you could redesign the sky, what would you put in it instead of stars and why?</li><li>Imagine someone discovers your project 1,000 years in the future. What do you hope they’d understand about you?</li></ul> &nbsp;This opportunity is only open to individuals from a group that is under-represented in the creative industries. This includes, but is not limited to Black, Asian and ethnically diverse candidates, disabled people, those undergoing gender reassignment / transitioning and individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.The successful candidate for this opportunity will also participate in a Creative Access support programme that sits alongside workplace training. This includes a programme of induction training, monthly masterclasses, wellbeing support, buddying / mentoring and more.

McCann Health London

Creative intern – IGNITE programme

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