WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
We’re looking for a brilliant Senior Account Executive to join our fast-growing sports communications agency. The dream candidate will be a positive and collaborative team player, with outstanding communication skills, stellar media contacts and a drive to shape and deliver high quality work.
We’d love to identify an individual who is ambitious to build their dream PR career in the industry, and to play a prominent role in a team environment that is building something special. This person would be joining MatchFit at an incredibly exciting time of growth, with a number of soon-to-be-announced new business wins, and with the opportunity to play a role in our agency development in coming years.
WHO WE ARE:
We are MatchFit, the communications agency with sport in our DNA. Like all great sports teams, we bring a blend of experience, skills, personalities and expertise, bonded together by a share mission. Ours? We want everyone to love sport the way we do.
We unleash the power of ‘earned-first’ storytelling in sport to make brands unmissable and supercharge rightsholders.
- Rightsholders: The FA, Manchester City, The LTA, The EFL, GB Taekwondo
- Brands: LiveScore Group, Topps, Blast esports, Rematch, Blakely, Sportsbreaks.com
- Talent: Growing stable of personal sports talent
Eye-catching creative. PR which cuts through. Scroll-stopping social. Influencers who do just that. FOMO creating experiential. Content which connects. Reputations protected and enhanced. Our award-winning work puts brilliant communications thinking first.
ROLE OVERVIEW:
The Senior Account Executive will play an important role within our growing team at MatchFit, working on several of our world-class clients, reporting into our Account Directors and, at times, Head of Clients. You will have key responsibilities to execute our client campaigns, from media relations and coverage, experiential delivery and through to influencer and talent management.
The Senior Account Executive will increasingly play a role as a coach to Junior Account Execs and Interns, as you demonstrate your future Account Management credentials. The successful candidate will be able to work across a range of MatchFit clients spanning rightsholders, brands and talent. You will be empowered to play a supporting role in new business pitches, something which the whole agency contributes to.
THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:
- Fantastic media relations
- Outstanding client servicing skills
- Brilliant teamwork skills
- A desire to foster a fun but high-quality work culture
- The ability to manage and communicate well both up and down
- Evidence of being a confident and proactive problem solver
- The ability to manage time across multiple accounts to a high level
- Brilliant pitching and presentation skills
- Calm confidence when working with high-profile talent
- A natural love and enthusiasm for PR, and for unearthing and telling amazing stories through media relations and content.
- Be able to commute to our office in Shoreditch, London
Beneficial attributes for a candidate:
- Direct experience of working on sport related clients or campaigns more broadly. (Note: We do not expect candidates to come from an agency that specialises in sport, indeed relevant consumer PR experience is every bit as valuable)
PERKS AND BENEFITS:
- MatchFit Sporting Moment: Furthering our mission ‘We Want Everyone To Love Sport As Much AsWe Do’, our people have £250 each year to spend on a unique sport experience. Recent examples include a London Marathon entry and New York Knicks tickets!
- Annual profit-share scheme based on business performance
- New business bonus: Up to and including Account Director level, any employee who makes a direct introduction is entitled to a bonus, calculated as 10% of total fees received in the first 12 months of a client contract.
- 21 days holiday as standard (outside of Bank Holidays) with additional days added for each year of service, plus 1.5 weeks over the Christmas and New Year period
- 1-for-1 day-in-lieu, for any time spent out at weekend client events
- Hybrid working policy, with Monday and Friday designated as work-from-home days(although you are welcome in any day!)
- Training and Development including ‘Lunch and Learn’ – our vibrant monthly internal programme – and external opportunities and courses
- Free team lunch on the house once each week
- Team socials every quarter, and an annual Christmas party day
- Cycle to work scheme
- Over 30,000 deals and discounts through our Charlie HR ‘Perks at Work’ platform
SALARY:
- Starting from £32k DOE.
THE PROCESS:
- Please email careers@matchfit.biz with your CV and relevant information.
- Closing date for applications: Monday 2nd Sept
- Informal chemistry calls: w/c 2nd Sept
- First stage Zoom interviews: w/c 9th Sept
- Final stage face-to-face interview with task: w/c Sept
- Target appointment date: Monday Sept
