Associate Account Executive at Buchanan Group – London

• The Brand Power Company - the most powerful, iconic TV ad platform driving brand sales
• Creators of Home Tester Club - the world’s largest digital community of shoppers delivering social proof content
• Hybrid work pattern - 2 days from the office, the rest from home
• Customized training program delivered by some of the industry's best
  

The Role

We're on the hunt for an enthusiastic sales gun to join our team in London to get our amazing digital advertising solutions in front of the world’s biggest packaged goods brands.

This is a genuine sales role for someone who is serious about selling and keen to kick off their career in the digital economy. You are competitive, curious, and an outstanding communicator.

When you join us you will work directly with the world’s top packaged goods companies, have the opportunity to interact with some of the greatest marketing minds, and hone career-making sales, management, and production skills across a variety of multimedia platforms including, television, digital and social.

You'll also learn all you need to know about our company, our unique products, and the secrets to selling as part of an extensive training program delivered by some of the industry's best.

Whether you’re a graduate or in the early years of your career, this is the perfect opportunity to blend your passion for sales, digital media, and consumer goods within a truly global business.

The Brand Power Company

The Brand Power Company, a WPP company, is the world’s leading provider of endorsement advertising platforms across television, digital and social, including Brand Power, Medifacts, and Home Tester Club. We’re big fans of authentic. Not just in the solutions we provide clients globally, but in the people we welcome to our team. Genuine team players up for collaborating, creating, and celebrating awesome results for our clients.

We know passion beats pretense and that it’s the down-to-earth who best step up to any challenge. We champion diversity. We collaborate across sixteen offices worldwide. We’re expanding into new markets. We’re committed to solutions that drive measurable results for our clients. And we play as hard as we work.

With more than 100,000 staff based in 110 different countries, WPP is the world's largest creative transformation company and is home to some of the biggest communications, advertising, and media agencies, including Ogilvy, GroupM, Grey, and Wavemaker. A career with The Brand Power Company opens up endless opportunities to learn and grow within a powerful network of WPP brands.

Key Responsibilities

• Networking and getting to know our current clients while finding potential new ones
• Setting up meetings with top marketing professionals across the UK, using various tactics such as e-mail, telephone, and LinkedIn
• Use our pretty cool online CRM tools (including Salesforce) to maintain detailed information on contacts, accounts, meetings, and opportunities
• Work effectively with multiple internal departments to sell, execute, and manage campaigns (ie. Creative & Production teams)
• Research and manage potential leads and prospects through LinkedIn and industry database subscriptions
• Learn and develop industry knowledge to establish areas of opportunity with potential clients
• Become an expert in product categories and advertising best practices in order to persuade marketers to consider The Brand Power Company tools
• Use the skills you develop to close business with new clients
• Build strong relationships with existing clients to grow book of business
  

What you can do is more important to us than what you have done previously.

We value an open mind, a desire to succeed and good old-fashioned hard work over a laundry list of skills. If you think you have what it takes but don’t tick every box, then we absolutely encourage you to give us a shot. We’d love to meet and get to know the real you, as well as see what else is in your toolbox.

Our Qualifications and Experience Wishlist

• 1-2 years of relevant work experience preferred - ideally within a sales or customer-centric environment
• High levels of initiative, self-motivation, and time management
• Competitive and ambitious nature, demonstrating a strong aptitude for sales
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel skills
• Ideal candidates will be mobile and open to an opportunity to live and work in a different country if desired at some stage in the future
  

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and lucrative commission scheme
• 5 weeks paid vacation each year + additional discretionary leave
• Hybrid work pattern - work 2 days in the office, the rest from home
• Excellent international career opportunities in a high growth company
• Training, training, and more training – delivered by some of the industry’s best
• Employee referral bonus
• Relaxed (and pretty cool...if we don't say so ourselves) advertising agency environment with a commitment to professional development and progression

We’re big fans of authentic

Diversity and inclusion is fundamental to who we are, and what has always made us tick. We recruit and reward people based on capability and performance. We don’t discriminate based on race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, lifestyle, age, educational background, national origin, religion or physical ability. You may think we care about your purple hair or love of cats, but we don’t. We believe treating everyone with authenticity and respect simply gives us the best chance of delivering success.

At The Brand Power Company we are committed to ensuring that your personal information is protected and never misused. You can view our policy here: https://www.thebrandpowercompany.com/recruitment-privacy-policy