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Account Executive

We’re a team of corporate communications and public affairs professionals serving some of the world’s most recognized brands and organizations across diverse industries, including technology, retail, energy, and health care. We help our clients communicate their most pressing business challenges to a wide stakeholder set, ultimately building their corporate reputation. Our specialty is partnering with companies undergoing transformation, from high-profile repositioning campaigns to transactions and turnarounds.
While we help clients with the day-to-day, we look around corners to help future proof their businesses. We lead creative, integrated work across Edelman. We support clients to execute campaigns that enhance their credibility on an issue and influence audience perception and actions. We develop narratives that empower an organization to get its message across in a meaningful and impactful way.
We have an opportunity for an Assistant Account Executive to support some of our team’s most significant communications campaigns and corporate reputation work. You’ll be an integral part of teams helping some of the world’s largest companies build credible and impactful communications programs that engage key stakeholders.
You’ll be joining a team of dedicated professionals who equally enjoy being on the forefront of business challenges and driving client results as much as they do working with each other. At Edelman, we believe that diversity of all types—race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, background, and experience—and inclusion enhance our vibrant work culture and help deliver stronger business results. By establishing a more diverse workforce, we are better equipped to develop innovative, creative campaigns that reach and resonate with our clients' increasingly diverse customer and stakeholder bases.

More About What You’ll Do:

    • Participate in brainstorms
    • Read and identify media clips from clipping services and online resources
    • Monitor client and competition coverage
    • Manage and update media lists
    • Assist with compilation of media coverage reports
    • Draft and pitch media targets, developing briefing materials, including messaging and reporter background
    • Conduct and compile industry research
    • Write, edit and proofread materials including statements, Q&As, stakeholder communications, messaging and client correspondence
    • Contribute to creation of communications and plans that meet client objectives ahead of corporate milestones, leadership transition, internal change management programs and other key moments
    • Assist with conference engagement, including developing conference trackers, pitching and placing spokespeople at events, spokesperson prep, staffing events, identifying target media, creating bespoke client events, and supporting clients at major national and global events.
    • Assist with new business, including compiling company research, developing competitive landscape analyses, and contributing to strategy development
    • Develop briefing materials and messaging to support media interviews

Basic Qualifications:

    • A bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
    • This is an entry-level account position

Preferred Qualifications:

    • An assistant account executive will possess good interpersonal and communication skills along with the ability to work effectively with a variety of account service staff within a specific set of accounts
    • Strong work ethic and dedication to consistently provide quality work to their team and clients
    • Prior internship experience preferred
    • Positive, collaborative attitude and entrepreneurial mindset
    • Strong organizational, scheduling, and time/project management skills; possess the ability to meet multiple deadlines simultaneously
    • Superior verbal communication skills
    • Must demonstrate strong writing abilities and analytical skills
    • Solid knowledge of Microsoft Office suite
$42,000 - $62,000 a year
An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, travel requirements, revenue-based metrics, any contractual agreements, and business or organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of DJEH’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, a Paid Time Off policy, and region-specific benefits.
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Edelman is a global communications firm that partners with businesses and organizations to evolve, promote and protect their brands and reputations. Our 6,000 people in more than 60 offices deliver communications strategies that give our clients the confidence to lead and act with certainty, earning the trust of their stakeholders. Our honors include the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for PR; Advertising Age’s 2019 A-List; the Holmes Report’s 2018 Global Digital Agency of the Year; and, five times, Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work. Since our founding in 1952, we have remained an independent, family-run business. Edelman owns specialty companies Edelman Data & Intelligence (DxI) and United Entertainment Group (entertainment, sports, lifestyle).

For more information please visit: www.edelman.com

Employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (i.e., at least 2 weeks after last dose) and, if hired, present proof of vaccination before start date. Candidates may request an accommodation due to disability, sincerely held religious belief or exception required under applicable law.

Edelman is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage racially and ethnically diverse people, members of the LGBTQ community, veterans, parents, individuals with disabilities and members of any and all protected classes to apply.
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To provide strategic communications counseling and programming which enable our clients to build strong relationships across stakeholders, influence attitudes, inform audiences and shape behaviors with the potential to have a positive impact in ou...

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