Assistant Account Executive Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Assistant Account Executive to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Perform in-depth research and analysis of clients (audits);
- When needed, assist with organizing and attending events;
- Support event planning, including venue coordination, on-site event preparation, and on-site event support;
- Ability to access exposures, and make coverage recommendations, written and oral;
- Assist and coordinate the delivery of services between our clients, carriers and loss control departments;
- Responsibility for identifying exposures on the accounts , and for discussing with the team leader and/or the client;
- Follow and adhere to all company protocols;
- Developing and managing client relations and media strategies;
- Assist with social media content creation and community engagement;
- Make calls to companies when there are problems/questions pertaining to processing;
- Ability to prepare, support/lead client status calls with appropriate documentation and support from more senior account team members;
- With guidance, collate information and content needed for client reports and presentations;
- Contribute creative ideas and tactics to client account plans;
- Monitor, collect and track metrics surrounding public relations tactics and social media activities;
- Develop newsworthy story angles based on client objectives and successfully pitch and place stories with national, local and trade media.
Requirements:
- BA/BS in related field;
- Working knowledge of social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) and ability to assist clients with developing strategies on these platforms;
- Ability to execute events with members of the public;
- Experience at a corporate communications, public relations or public affairs agency or comparable in-house position is preferred;
- Proficient in AP style;
- Online community management experience (Facebook page or group administrator, forum administrator, etc.) a plus;
- Exceptional writing skills;
- Familiarity with social platform posting mechanics / nuances and native analytics tools. Be a practitioner;
- A prior internship in public relations/communications and / or interest in digital media a plus;
- Ability to understand, analyze, and research different lines of insurance;
- Excellent writing, research, and communication skills;
- Working knowledge of EPIC preferred, but otherwise, the ability and willingness to learn;
- Never being “too senior/precious” to do something, the ability to scale and act as a team is important;
- Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment;
- Self-starter, motivated, eager, inquisitive, proactive and enthusiastic.