Account Manager

Mindshare is a media services company that accelerates growth for its clients. This is an EMEA role for one of Mindshare’s biggest clients, Electronic Arts. In this role, you will act as a key day-to-day point of contact for regional EA clients and internal agency teams. You will help coordinate regional media planning recommendations and support client presentations, helping to represent EMEA market needs and nuances. Supporting the senior planning team, you will help execute EA's day-to-day requirements and campaign deliverables.

Responsibilities

Supporting Growth Led Client Vision: Assist in driving adoption of the annual vision; support identification of opportunities to showcase progress; FC and EMEA Market Planning Visibility & SLA Management: Ensure local markets are working to Global, Region and Local SLAs; Lead briefing planning visibility trackers; Assist in managing market delivery; Analyse workflows for bottlenecks and propose improvements; Day To Client Workstreams & Management: Streamline information flow between Global, Regional and local teams; Support Strategy, Planning, and Digital teams with market requests; Collaborate with team clients and external agencies; Attend key meetings and capture next steps; Planning Quality & Governance: Monitor campaign documentation for adherence to global and regional guidelines; Drive stewardship to maintain EA standards; Support evaluation of local markets workstreams; Maintain central repository of planning documents; Active Best Practice Sharing With Markets: Foster continuous improvement; Identify local market opportunities; Recognise and reward best practice sharing; Monitor competitor activity; Curate and share relevant content; Tools Training & Ways of Working: Provide planning tools training; Support rollout of new ways of working; Monitor adoption of tool usage

Requirements

Right to work in the UK; Highly organised and proactive; Manages projects, tracks timelines, anticipates needs; Excellent communicator; Bridges global strategy and local execution; Analytical and solution-oriented; Client-focused and collaborative; Strategic thinker; Self-starter; Proactive orchestrator; Good media planning experience; Strong understanding of digital and offline channels; Understands client needs; Works collaboratively with strategy, audience, and digital leads; Integrates media and creative workstreams; Curious and self-motivated; Proactive and solutions-oriented; Collaboration and manages upwards; Financial process savvy; Confident communicator; Deep understanding of the gaming and entertainment industry and its trends; Experience with media planning and integrated campaigns; Data-driven analytical thinker

Nice to have

Gaming and entertainment industry experience; Passion for gaming or sports

Benefits

Competitive medical insurance; Group retirement plans; Vision insurance; Dental insurance; Significant paid time off; Preferential partner discounts; Employee mental health awareness days; Employee resource groups; In-office events