Salary – from £24,000-£25,000
We are Harvard: a multi award-winning agency for tech brands big and small. With services spanning creative and marketing, strategy and PR, we help our clients make their move and our people make their mark.
We’ve grown phenomenally in the last few years to a 70+ strong business with global clients – and we continue to expand. Marketing services is a key area of growth for the agency: covering everything from creative campaigns and brand development through to social media, events, influencers and content marketing.
We are now looking for a B2B PR & Marketing Junior Account Executive to join the team and build a career here.
Who you are
You are an organiser with a thirst for knowledge. With a focus on day-to-day task management and smooth running of account processes, you are integral to ensuring clients and your account teams have what they need to deliver for clients daily.
You are….
…reporter to your clients
…support for your account teams
…energy to the business
…communicator between your client and our creative services and strategy teams
…mastering B2B technology, PR and marketing
You are the lynchpin that ensures the smooth running of client work and campaigns, by noting clients’ strategic needs and joining the dots between internal teams. Across the agency, you are our go to expert on the latest stories, media, social & digital trends, and bring everyday creativity to everything you do.
What you do
For our clients…
- Drive the day to day rhythm of work across your accounts
- Effectively manage your time to complete tasks across multiple accounts and projects
- Be a media hound – pitching and securing a stream of interview, feature, byline and rapid response opportunities – keeping up with the changing media landscape and its intersection with social media and industry influencers
- Understand the art of crafting a story and how to tell this across different mediums
- Write well-thought through written materials, including briefing documents, opinion pieces, blogs and social posts
- Contribute to our clients’ media planning by drafting, updating, and maintaining the media calendar as well as spotting proactive and reactive media opportunities
- Respond to and liaise with clients, providing consultancy and developing strong relationships
- Supporting client admin: writing contact reports, drafting timing plans, campaign reporting
- Managing third party partners, such as research companies, animators or translation services
For your team…
- Work to build out your own media contacts, developing relationships with journalists
- Support each other by circulating relevant sector intelligence and news stories, sharing comms expertise and previous experiences
- Drafting task briefs for creative service teams and overseeing internal resource to produce best-in-class outputs
- Participate in new business brainstorms, taking an active role in supporting with research and insight
For our agency…
- Be curious and have an intentional focus on developing your PR & marketing knowledge and skill set
- Start to learn about Harvard’s integrated client portfolio – look at how an integrated approach to PR & marketing could help clients get to better outcomes
- Through building your own connections with journalists, help to nurture Harvard’s excellent reputation with the media
- Take an active, positive part in our agency culture and support Harvard’s own marketing and social activity
- Participate in our training programme – Never Stop Learning
- Approach the development of your role with enthusiasm and commitment
- Contribute to a positive, inclusive culture at Harvard
What we believe in
Harvard’s values are fundamental to helping ensure we operate in a high performing manner, remain people-first, and crucially succeed as an organisation collectively. We expect us all to live and breathe these values. They encapsulate the culture that fosters a happy, supportive and rewarding working environment, and also drive growth for our business by helping us know our clients and unlock opportunities. The Harvard values are:
- COURAGE – We actively challenge – ourselves, our clients and the industry – by being brave, thinking big and always striving to do better
- COMPASSION – We put people first, creating an environment rooted in kindness, empathy, respect and inclusivity.
- CURIOSITY – We are strategic and creative problem solvers, restless in our learning and in the pursuit of innovation.
- CANDOUR – We quickly and openly address challenges head-on and have the conversations we need to in order to do the right thing and get to the right answer.
- COMMITMENT – We strive every day for high-performance, as individuals and for the collective, aligning personal success and growth with the success of the business as a whole
What we promise you
At Harvard we believe that your career should be driven by you, guided by a brilliant line manager and enabled by us as an agency. With that in mind, you will have:
- The empowerment and autonomy to take control of your own career path and make use of all of the support and guidance available
- Comprehensive training through easy access to our ‘Never Stop Learning’ programme
- A talent management structure built around personal contact and clear communication on career paths and the meaning of high performance at Harvard
- A diverse and varied client-base, with opportunities to build skills, try new types of work and work across teams
- An equal and inclusive culture and approach, ensuring that all voices are heard and respected and we continue embrace new ideas
Are you ready to make your move?
Our people are our superpower – we exist to enable every single one to reach their potential. We know we can only achieve that by creating and maintaining an environment where anyone, from any background feels safe, inspired and encouraged to thrive. That is our People First Promise.
We provide all the benefits you’d expect – profit-related pay, up to 5% matched pension, private medical insurance, discounted gym membership and structured training to help you develop and progress your career. As well as a few that are a little special such as; industry leading gender neutral parental leave, full access to the mindfulness app Calm and a monthly pizza on us, to name a few!
