Account Executive (ASAP)
Location: London
We’re looking for a brilliant and creative Account Director to join our fast-growing sports communications agency. The dream candidate will be a positive and collaborative leader with outstanding communication skills, creativity, high standards and a drive to help their team shape and deliver high quality work.
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. We unleash the power of ‘earned-first’ storytelling in sport to make brands unmissable and supercharge rightsholders.
- Brands: Talent: Growing stable of personal sports talent
Eye-catching creative. Content which connects. The Account Director will play a hugely important role within MatchFit, joining the extended Management Team and leading several of our world-class clients, reporting into our Head of Clients and, at times, Co-Founders. You will also be responsible for line-managing an Account Manager and Account Executives as you further develop your future leadership and agency management credentials.
A key aspect of this specific role will be a focus on our entertainment brand clients such as LiveScore Group, which comprises the portfolio brands LiveScore, LiveScore Bet and Virgin Bet, as well as other new clients within our growing client roster following some game-changing new business wins. You will have excellent brand experience, and be comfortable working with elite talent and ambassadors across consumer campaigns, as well as an ability to navigate clients through the unique challenges of B2B campaigns. Outstanding client servicing skills
- A desire to foster a fun but high-quality work culture
- Relish playing a prominent role in the creative process to conceive high quality work
- Comfort applying strategic thinking and building high class documents and plans
- Be able to commute to our office in Shoreditch , London
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. 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.
- 23 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 Apply
