New Business Executive

NEW BUSINESS & MARKETING EXECUTIVE

We are looking for a New Biz & Marketing Executive to grow with the team as we continue to grow. The right candidate may have completed work experience in a similar field, held an entry level / assistant role in another agency, or can show they have built the right skillset elsewhere.

The New Biz & Marketing Executive will work with the New Business Director and MD across marketing, PR and business development.

In this role, there is a great opportunity to learn, develop and become a specilist within New Business.

Skills

• Someone with a creative mind paired with an eye for detail.

• A trusted team player – integral, reliable and personable with a proactive and can-do attitude, who doesn't shy away from asking for help if needed.

• Calm and adaptable as priorities change. Be prepared to work flexibly during key peaks of work (e.g. pitches and events).

• A knowledge sponge, always seeking to find out more, to perfect skills and compliment energy with experience.

Key responsibilities

• A frontline BMB brand guardian - helping to maintain the visual quality and consistency of all outward facing collateral. A keen eye for detail and an enthusiasm for design & the visual representation for information.

• Researching prospects and brands, ahead of meetings or proactive targeting campaigns.

• Looking after agency profiles online and helping to keep them current (e.g. Little Black Book, AAR, IPA).

• Helping to track all ongoing leads and prospects in the agency CRM system, and leading weekly status meetings with the MD and CEO.

Marketing & PR:

• Work with the New Business Manager to keep agency credentials updated as well as other marketing assets such as our AAR showreel.

• Organising all case studies, award submissions, RFIs, press cuttings and pitch materials on the agency New Business filing drive.

• Helping to deliver key agency news memorably on our online channels, as well as in mail-outs to journalists, intermediaries and our clients. Proactive thoughts and imagination encouraged!

General admin:

• Ensuring all New Business drives / Slack channels are created efficiently and maintained.

• Ensuring job numbers are raised when a new pitch begins and this is shared with all parties (CYLNDR, Workflow, Pitch teams).

• Raising non billable invoices and ensuring payment of suppliers.

Benefits – the good stuff.

• BUPA Private Medical Insurance – You can elect to be enrolled in the private health care scheme after passing probation (3 months). BMB pays the premium but it is a taxable benefit.

• EAP (Employee Assistance Program) – Automatic enrolment in this at no cost to employee.

• Simplyhealth cash plan – You can elect to be enrolled in plan as a taxable benefit. Allows you to claim money back on payments for everyday health treatments. Please inform HR if you would like to be placed into plan.

• Pension Scheme with Scottish Widows – Auto-enrollment into our Pension scheme after passing probation at 4% of salary, salary sacrifice. Please note BMB matches up to 5%.

• Group Life Assurance – Automatic enrolment in this at no cost to employee. This offers life cover at 4 x basic salary to nominated beneficiary if employee passes away while employed with BMB.

• Group Income Protection – Automatic enrolment in this at no cost to employee. If employee cannot work because of illness or injury for more than 13 consecutive weeks, this will pay 50% of salary for up to 5 years.

• Season Ticket Loan – This covers the cost of an annual season ticket for travel between home and work upon successful completion of three months continued employment. The loan is interest-free with maximum 11 months term and will be deducted from salary each month.

• Annual Cyclescheme

• Virtual GP from AIG Health

• Enrolment into IPA membership.

• 25 days holiday, increase 1 day after every year of service up to 30 days

Equal opportunities

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and recruit on talent alone, regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, religion, education, class, sexual orientation or disability. We champion diversity and believe it not only benefits, but enhances our creativity, our company and the wider society at large.

About BMB

We’re a full-service creative and strategy agency currently based in the shadow of the Tate Modern and deliberately distant from the geographical heartland of Adland Central. At BMB we believe in the power of creative empathy and ‘talking up’ to an audience.

We do this by seeking out and speaking to the deep and human needs that bind people to brands.

It starts with a common agency disposition, a curiosity around human behaviours, psychology, and possibility. Our goal is to turn this curiosity into ideas that humanise brands, making them more charismatic, distinctive and likeable.

Our mantra is that, whatever the sector, no matter what changes technology has made to the context of companies and audiences, ‘the most human brand wins’.

Please send your CV and any docs you think are interesting to tom.gee@bmbagency.com, please don’t feel any pressure to write a cover letter.