Account Executive

**Company Overview**:
Reinventing out-of-home planning and placement for the performance age. billups is the leading independent out-of-home (OOH) specialist in North America and is continuing to grow in the EMEA and APAC regions. Delivering OOH managed services globally, helping advertisers and agencies strengthen media performance through our patented analytics and measurement platform. Our mission is to transform the power of places to connect brands with their consumers.

**Summary**

The Client Team (comprising Client Services and Client Development functions) undertakes a wide range of responsibilities in driving billups’ business forward, developing and nurturing client and partner relationships. As part of our Client Services function, the Account Executive role collaborates closely with peers, Assistant(s), Senior Account Executive(s), Account Manager(s), Senior Account Manager(s), Account Director(s) and Senior Account Director(s) in:
**Media Planning & Buying**:

- Support the day-to-day management of your clients, effectively servicing them, and proactively contributing to growing client and agency business.
- Support the Client Development function with the creation of, or access to, materials or content.
- Media plan development, RFP collation, grid development, DOmedia utilization, Platform/mapping, Planning tools & systems, posting instructions, creating POP reports, etc.
- Small-level plan/project development/ownership, low-level negotiations, and managing client relationships with high-level oversight from the line manager are the main tasks.

**Project Management**:

- Assist in managing shared file drive systems, ensuring all documents and content are appropriately saved and regularly updated.
- Compile, organize, and maintain accurate, up-to-date campaign files such as buy specs, decks, POP, etc.
- With oversight, responsible for Billups’ delivery in ensuring the timely activation of media campaigns for your clients.
- Track campaign start dates and ensure everything is ready to go live on time; liaise with relevant vendors to manage artwork delivery
- and approval processes.
- With oversight, responsible campaign reporting for your clients - access ‘Proof of Posting (POP)’ and Campaign Attribution, ensuring this is received by clients and/or their agencies in a timely fashion.
- Generate consistency and maintain high accuracy in all work through the adoption of appropriate templates and guidelines, ensuring operational excellence.
- Juggle multiple project deadlines without compromising quality.
- Help coordinate calendars to arrange team meetings or presentations.
- Adopt and understand required tools and systems.

**Relationships**:

- Develop strong personal relationships with your day-to-day agency, client, and media vendor contacts, building trust and collaboration.
- Attendance of relevant client/partner/industry events. Travel, as required.
- Build supplier relationships on a daily basis regarding the development and execution of industry-leading OOH planning.

**Thought Leadership**:

- Develop and grow your industry knowledge through (i) meeting and event attendance, (ii) company training, (iii) conducting site visits, (iv) engaging with Billups’ communication platforms. Sharing knowledge and best practices across the wider team and business.
- Advocate Billups’ mission/vision/purpose, strategies, and services, across your clients.
- Attend and contribute to wider company initiatives, including social events, town halls, etc.
- Read advertising and business trades to understand the changing media landscape.Training & Development:

- Support team Assistant(s) on their learning of foundational work. Assist with training/mentoring junior team members.

**Business Development**:

- Help Account Manager(s) and Senior Account Manager(s) with new business opportunities and project related tasks.
- Learn to identify ways of delivering organic and diversified revenue growth within media plans and help convert these.

**Department Collaboration**:

- Support your team with client marketing needs such as gathering competitive information, writing market profiles, and pulling geopath reports.
- Supporting POP on the Hive.
- Collaborate with the Investment Team for alignment and optimization across markets and vendors.
- Help liaise with wider Billups’ centralized resources within existing or new conversations - for example, Marketing, PlatSol, and Design Teams.

**Professionalism & Compliance**:

- Comply with all company and departmental policies and procedures. Follow process and enhance it as needed to ensure quality consistency.
- Adopt tools and systems; contribute to their development and deployment as required, including participating in requirement definition and testing periods.
- Timely completion of all assigned company training.
- Lead by example and operate internally and externally with professionalism at all times.
- Other duties as assigned by Senior Account Executives (s)