Account Executive

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Founded in April 2018, The GO! Network is the fastest growing marketing intermediary in the UK. Our core business connects in-house marketing leaders with exceptional agency support, across all sectors and marketing disciplines. Moreover, we provide marketers throughout our community with opportunities, including introductions to potential partners, content, events, data & insights, and more.

Our driver is to Raise The Bar on brand-agency relationships, where brands and agencies can grow and achieve mutual success, via our services and the value we add to this community.

Privately owned, the business has grown organically to date and has been profitable since its inception. Operating from HQ in Manchester, the core business services brand and agencies across the UK and internationally.

The business has exciting plans for growth, which include expansion of a Group of services and revenue streams which complement the core offering. The development of the group will present significant opportunities for growth and reward for those who are part of the journey.

As a foundation to this next stage for the business, GO! are looking to appoint a GO! Network Executive to sit within the GO! Network Team.

The GNT sits at the heart of GO!, driving the business internally and are the external face of GO! for all it’s marketing agency members.

The GO! Network Executive role will be solely responsible for managing the briefing process which is integral to the business, whilst at the same time supporting on the communication with the agency members of the GO! Network in order to increase the value gained from of their membership.

In line with the core function of The GO! Network team, the GO! Network Executive role has responsibilities and deliverables which support across all teams in the business, each with a set of clearly defined objectives.

These are split across external client management and internal operational support across Agency, Brand and Marketing teams.

As such an integral part of the growing GO! team, the varied role offers progression into multiple areas of the business. The right candidate will have a desire and ambition to learn and will be rewarded with opportunity and a clear development plan.

Detailed Duties

Agency Onboarding Process & Brief Management:

·      Aligning agencies with briefs and opportunities through a thorough understanding of their specialisms and USPs as captured in the onboarding process

·      Working closely with the brand team and GO! Network Managers to qualify agencies for relevant opportunities as and when they come into the business

·      Responsibility for leading the brief process and all associated internal and external communication

External Communication:

·      Communicating with GO! agency clients including sharing live opportunities and discussing in detail agency capabilities in order to determine suitability

·      Working with agency clients to ensure their content within the bespoke GO! platform is up-to-date at all times

·      Training clients on how to use the GO! software and ensuring they understand the importance of updating case studies throughout their membership

·      Managing communication with agencies throughout the briefing process, ensuring all agency material is submitted and filed and ensuring all deadlines are communicated are hit

·      Taking responsibility for diary management throughout the pitch process with brands and agencies

·      Answering agency queries relating to GO! content output as appropriate

·      Responding to client enquires via email and phone

·      Ensuring information across the business is captured in the relevant format and platform and all data is input real-time into the GO! internal systems

·      Taking responsibility for 100% accuracy across all data entry touchpoints

Business support:

·      Supporting with the development and maintenance of company assets and systems as and when required, such as Insightly CRM, Online Portal and Data for reports

·      Reviewing industry publications and other relevant data sources on and offline on a daily basis

·      Capturing market information from across internal and external communication and understanding where and when the information is to be shared

·      Sharing information in a uniform and structured format & consistently looking to drive improvements in how this done

·      To act as a face of GO! at all times and welcome clients into the GO! office

·      As part of a fast paced and growing business, there is a continuous focus across teams of developing and launching new business lines and company developments. There is a reactive element to the GNE role at times in line with business needs, to research and set foundations of such developments, providing integral support to company growth.

Please note that this list is not exhaustive and you may be required to undertake additional duties of a similar responsibility level as and when required.

Essential:

Ability to work to set tasks and deadlines.

Competence of working across multiple tasks simultaneously with the ability to prioritise workload

Presenting work to team members/peers.

Speaking to external clients on the phone and face to face in a confident and articulate way

Desirable:

At least 1 years working experience in a field relating to one of the following industries:

Creative

Marketing

Advertising

PR

Digital / Performance marketing

Development

Client services based experience

Research & insights capturing experience

- Up to £23,000 DOE



-Hybrid working

- Award-winning offices in the heart of Manchester close to all main public transport links.

- Full training and long-term development programme.

- A genuine progression culture that looks to match the performance and ambition of its people.

- Attractive and attainable bonus structure.

- Rewards and recognition programme.

- Contribution towards company-wide healthplan.