Media Executive

Vacancy/Job title: Media Executive

Location: Cardiff

Job description

Golley Slater are looking for a Media Executive to join our thriving media independent.

The role will provide support to the wider media team which specialises in traditional and digital media. You will work alongside an established and close-knit team of account handlers, Media Planners and digital specialists and play an integral role ensuring the smooth running of client accounts. This role is perfect for someone with some media or marketing experience looking to further their career in an agency setting.

What you will be doing:

• Working with Account Managers on delegated tasks around campaign planning, buying and delivery.
• Maintaining client and supplier relationships, obtaining quotes and negotiating placements.
• Researching, planning, and implementing media activity across all offline and online channels.
• Liaising with creative teams (internal, client and third-party) as well as supplier production teams.
• Monitoring and reporting on media activity.
• Booking media as directed.
• Assisting in the preparation of new business documents and presentations.
• Supporting on budget management and quality control.
• Liaising with creative, production and finance teams and develop good working relationships.

The essential skills and experience you need to be successful in the role are:

• Some agencies or client-side marketing experience preferable (at least one year)
• Adaptable and calm under pressure
• A confident communicator with an enthusiastic, can-do attitude
• Able to prioritise a large workload to tight timings.
• Highly organised, methodical, and obsessive attention to detail
• Commercial understanding and confident with numbers
• Take pride in consistently producing high-quality work.
• A willingness to learn and continuously develop themselves.

Some of our benefits include:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holiday.
• Birthday Holiday Day.
• Enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity leave pay.
• Enhanced sick pay
• Compassionate leave policies, including paid pregnancy loss leave
• Employee assistance programme including access to free counselling sessions.
• Life and service milestone awards
• Hybrid working and core hours (10 to 4)
• Life assurance (4 times annual salary)
• Option to buy extra holiday.
• Pension scheme (5% employee, 3% employer)

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At Golley Slater, we believe that curiosity creates the unexpected, and true curiosity cant be achieved without diversity. We need people with different perspectives, experiences, and cultures to develop unexpected ideas that challenge, excite and create lasting impact. Thats why were proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race including colour, ethnic or national origins and nationality, religion or belief or sexual orientation ("the protected characteristics"). So, whoever you are, whatever your background, we want to hear from you.

How we can support you

We know that some people may need more flexibility than others. We offer the opportunity for our teams to fit work around their needs and schedules with:

• A work where you feel most productive policy for those who find it easier to work remotely.
• Flexible working hours (with core hours of 10am-4pm).
• Enhanced parental leave, to give teams time with their new arrivals.
• Pregnancy loss leave.
• Enhanced sick leave.
• If you require any adjustments to make this role work for you or need assistance during our application process, please contact a member of our HR Team.

In return, well give you the chance to build on these skills and advance your career with support and collaboration among a team who like to have fun as well as work hard. If this sounds like you then please apply!