As an Account Executive, you will focus on identifying, negotiating and closing deals targeting and growing accounts. You will use your deep industry knowledge to expand and close these complex deals. You will provide account leadership and direction in both the pre- and post-sales processes in a high-energy, dynamic environment.

What you will do:

• Drive some of the worlds biggest brands to achieve their most strategic corporate objectives by connecting those objectives to DataStaxs set of solutions.

• Listen, identify and understand clients/prospective clients needs and deliver to their expectations.

• Command the message, business value selling, and account planning.

• Demonstrate expertise in building business cases which clearly show value and differentiation at all levels of your customer / prospect organizations.

• In collaboration with Data Architects, develops short and long-range strategies for product expansion; assesses potential application of the company products to meet customer needs

• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of DataStax' competitive positioning in the marketplace, and prepare activity and forecast reports as requested

Your experience should include:

• Working with the C-level executives in building strategic and long standing relationships.

• Build relationships with multiple stakeholders and influence them in a positive way.

• Evangelizing enterprise technology, with particular focus on SaaS and disruptive technologies.

• Command the message, business value selling, and account planning.

• Demonstrating excellence in Pipeline Generation & Opportunity Progression; including meticulous planning and preparation.

• Creating trusted customer relationships and a deep understanding of needs/opportunities within enterprises.

• Helping customers to transform their infrastructure into meaningful data that allows them to make strategic business decisions

• Cloud based distributed systems

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You will work within a fast-paced, high-performing and energetic sales team who push boundaries and lead the way!

Responsibilities include:

• Effectively managing a pipeline of briefs and proactive ideas to meet and exceed revenue targets, whilst accurately forecasting revenue to the business
• Communicate product value in order to educate clients and deliver on product sales
• Maintain a strong knowledge of online video and display, native content, performance media and programmatic buying
• Work with several departments and stakeholders to deliver leading solutions for your partners
• Deliver solutions to your clients that are strategically and creatively led showcasing your deep knowledge of your client’s business
• Work closely with our Powered team to deliver new and relevant opportunities for brands
• Facilitate the sale of program sponsorships, sports sponsorships and spot packages
• Maintain client and account lists

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE

OUR VISION 
Spark Foundry. Famously Effective. Not one or the other, both. The thrill of the idea made better still by the pride of watching it work. A magnetic combination. Attracting clients that become advocates and talent, driven to deliver. Award winning and business changing. But a vision cannot be realized without the right ingredients.

You need diverse thinkers and diverse thinking. We call this Allsorts. This helps us tackle obstacles through different disciplines and perspectives. You need to thrive on the belief that great ideas are only great if they work. It’s not enough to be new, or cool, or interesting. Our solutions need to drive a business result. Everything else is vanity. You need to embrace both the art and the evidence. Right and left. Imagination and activation. Insight and technology. Big ideas, forensically measured.

All that while being a good human? Sound like you? Sound like where you’d like to be? We’d love to meet you.

OUR VALUES

• Allsorts – We believe it takes Allsorts to get magical work. Diverse thinkers and diverse thinking. In what we do and who we are.

• Art and Evidence – Great ideas are only great ideas if they work. We believe it takes both Art and Evidence to thrive in the industry today. It’s one thing to dream it but another to prove it and it’s only great if you can do both.

• Royalty Makes Loyalty – There is a return on treating clients and partners like royalty. Nurturing clients’ businesses, listening to their needs and delivering excellence at every step allows us to build lasting and rewarding relationships.

• Good Humans - Decency in everything we do. Be a Good Human, Always. No matter who you are or who you think you are.

   

ROLE PURPOSE

Haleon is a world-leading consumer health company with a purpose to deliver better everyday health with humanity. It has leading brands like Panadol, Voltaren, Centrum and Sensodyne. You will be accountable for making a real difference in our clients’ business—and our own. 

The Account Executive provides mid-level assistance in the Accounts and Performance area. This role allows for development opportunities within client servicing, account management and hands-on learning for a variety of tools & platforms. Additionally, there are opportunities to develop into the digital and offline media space. 

WHAT BENEFITS DOES SPARK OFFER?

Be a part of the Publicis Groupe family, recent winner of the Employer of Choice Awards and one of the world’s most progressive and dynamic modern communications businesses. You can learn more about us at www.publicisgroupeanz.com.

Enjoy all the perks that come with our network offering:

• A comprehensive Wholeself program supporting Physical, Mindful and Financial wellbeing.

• A creative, lively and rewarding office environment where people love working with each other, supported by our Publicis Liberté flexibility approach “working your way, with us!”

• Access to our Global AI Platform, Marcel, connecting Publicis Groupe employees with opportunities for career mobility and collaboration across our global network.

• Extensive Learning & Development opportunities, including more than 15,000 learning programs via our online learning platform Marcel Classes.

• A culture of open feedback and support to reach your goals through our Career Conversations program.

• A committed Diversity, Equality and Inclusion strategy driven through our Viva! Women, Égalité, enABLE, EmbRACE and Ecologique committees.

• Leave benefits including Birthday Leave, Flexible Public Holidays, and an additional 5 days of leave (after 2 years of service).

• Work Your World program enabling employees the flexibility to work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks per year.

• Parental leave policy with up to 18 weeks (based on tenure) paid primary carer leave, secondary carer swap and Cub Care leave.

• Access to counsellors, psychologists and professionals through Sonder - an all-in-on digital wellbeing technology platform designed to support psychological, medical & safety needs.

• Proud partners of Diversity Council Australia, Pride in Diversity, Family Friendly Workplaces, Supply Nation and the Australian Disability Network.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

EXECUTION

• Management of Lumina (media plan system), input buys and actualisations.
• Owning the PO tracker, helping to load into BMD, invoice and account queries etc.
• Overflow work for search, social and programmatic – opportunity to learn in these areas from local experts.
• Monthly reporting assistance to the digital managers – bridge the gap between PGD (offshore resource) and managers.
• Assistance to campaign implementation across digital and offline channels.
• Admin assistance on exciting digital content partnerships with key partners such as Mamamia, News.com.au and Spotify.
• Administrating ‘The Observatory’ – assisting in the uploading of documents and ensuring compliance for research etc.
• Monthly reporting and dashboard assistance to deliver key learning to client brand teams.

TEAM & COMMUNICATION

• Developing strong working relationships with:
• Clients - Learn how to build strong relationships with the Haleon Digital team and ensure there is an effective working relationship between client and agency.
• Digital Activation Team - Work with the specialists within the Digital Activation Team (eCommerce, Programmatic, Social & Search) to ensure high quality output.
• Account Service Team - Build strong relationships with the Account Service Team to ensure that workflow between teams is effective and collaborative + Assist in all client communications and foster strong relationships with Haleon.

YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Preferably a degree or higher education qualifications.

• Minimum 1-2 years experience in a media buying and/or media planning role at an agency across digital and/or offline channels .

• Someone who is keen to learn and grow their knowledge both in the digital/offline space and in the client servicing department.

WHAT DOES LIFE AT SPARK LOOK LIKE?

We offer progressive flexible working options to everyone at all levels – It’s not a policy. It’s behaviour led and reinforced through our values. Mental health and wellbeing is something we take seriously – It’s championed by our own people internally and is a regular conversation. We have a lot of fun – Even in this virtual world, we are constantly looking at reinventing how we connect with each other.

If you don’t tick every box in this ad, please don’t rule yourself out. Research suggests that women and other people in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they meet every requirement. We focus on hiring people who share our values of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, fearlessness, and integrity, rather than ticking boxes – so if this role resonates with you, please apply.

Diversity. Inclusion. Equity. More than just words, these are part of our DNA. At Publicis Groupe we are committed to the inclusion and recognition of all people; regardless of race, age, culture, ability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status and religious affiliation. We believe that to deliver the best solutions to our clients, our people need to reflect the diverse communities in which our clients operate in. We value diversity and the skills, knowledge and experience that difference brings to our culture and solutions. 

Uniqueness is powerful; without it we wouldn’t be where we are today. So be you – we like it that way. 

We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments for people with disability or those that require additional support throughout the application process.  If you need any assistance or adjustments, please contact us via [email protected] - your personal information will be kept confidential.