Account Executive

**Company Description**
DWA With offices in Sydney, San Francisco, Boston, London, Munich, Beijing, Bangalore and Singapore, DWA is the world’s largest and most respected media planning and buying agency specialising exclusively in the technology sector. DWA is media-agnostic and ROI-focused, developing campaigns for B2B and B2C clients that incorporate digital, out-of-home, TV, radio, print and ambient. Third-party tracking and search are both used to measure campaign effectiveness in solving the client’s problems whether success is judged according to brand uplift, lead generation, drive to store or other criteria.

So, what’s so great about focusing on technology clients?

Whether it’s synching up multiple devices to get things done seamlessly, playing Angry Birds or saving your data in the online cloud so you can access it when, where and on what device you want, technology is part of every minute of our lives, at work, at rest, at play.

DWA work with a host of global brands in the business and consumer technology space, connecting our partners to their key audiences. The end-user: it’s all about getting technology to work for them, their colleagues, their homes and their companies, on their terms.

Account Executive

Merkle B2B (owned by Dentsu) is recruiting for an Account Executive looking to propel their career by joining an awesome team of switched-on media professionals, working on Tier 1 business brands with interesting challenges and sophisticated marketers across some of our more exciting APAC accounts. They will be reporting to one of our Account Directors.

To qualify for this role, you should
- HAVE a bachelors level degree or relevant tertiary qualification.
- BE organised and work with the Account Manager to manage competing priorities.
- BE detail orientated. You’ll be dealing with large sums of money and intricate campaign data, where accuracy is paramount.

Specific Responsibilities
- Meeting daily with the account manager to discuss client work in progress and map out your tasks
- Owning the proof of execution process across a tier one agency client, this includes compiling media performance reporting and financial documentation and ensuring 100% accuracy. Owning the quality assurance process to ensure business critical deadlines are met
- Consult with media platform partners and publishers to develop client reporting
- Evolving and improving the campaign and post-campaign reporting processes with the AM and paid media specialist teams
- Undergo routine paid media and professional development training to learn the concepts and processes of paid media planning and buying, B2B paid media and marketing and build your business acumen

**Benefits**:

- Real flexibility to work when and where we feel the most productive with our ‘Be the Best You’ policy. We love coming into the office and meeting face to face with other team members. We typically do this at least twice a week.
- 5 weeks annual leave after 2 years of service and 3 whole company mental health awareness days off per year
- Merkle B2B offer a 9 day fortnight - a paid day off every 2 weeks on a day that suits you and the team
- Career Development and Learning & Development opportunities, including access to our global online dentsu University
- Save money with great discounts on health insurance, gym membership, buying a car and travel.

What We’re Looking For:

- Inspirational and passionate
- Has a multidisciplinary skillset
- Is curious, iterative, and collaborative
- Balances factual information with intuition and creativity
- Cares about winning as one team
- Is looking to do things that haven’t been done before
- Can tell stories with data
- Builds strong internal and external relationships

**Additional Information** Key interfaces**:
Management team, Planning and/or Buying Managers, Media assistants. Client marketing and business personnel, media suppliers, creative and PR agencies