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About the Role

The Associate Practice at Edelman represents the foundation of our client service talent pipeline, designed to foster early career growth across communications, public affairs, and advisory disciplines. This practice encompasses professionals from entry-level to emerging specialists who support and drive client work through curiosity, collaboration, and accountability. The Senior Account Executive (SAE) role focuses on developing leadership maturity by demonstrating growing confidence, judgement, and solid communication, supporting day-to-day client interactions, mentoring juniors, and contributing to strategy.

Responsibilities

Act as a key day-to-day point of contact for clients, owning and leading specific projects and ongoing workstreams.
Build strong client relationships through reliability, responsiveness, and consistently high-quality delivery.
Lead client interactions, articulating a point of view with confidence and gravitas.
Anticipate client needs, upcoming moments, issues, and opportunities.
Play a key role in the research, planning, brainstorming, development, and execution of campaigns and communications programmes.
Drive relevant workstreams, keeping deliverables moving forward and managing multiple priorities.
Coordinate effectively with internal teams and collaborate with different practices and teams on cross-business work.
Work closely with global markets when required.
Apply a solid understanding of earned, owned, paid, and social media channels.
Take initiative on relevant workstreams and proactively put forward ideas.
Produce and edit high-quality client-facing content, including press releases, social media content, and executive briefing materials.
Produce strong first drafts of client-facing content quickly and efficiently.
Demonstrate excellent attention to detail across content development and review.
Bring a creative mindset to client work and suggest relevant storytelling formats.
Translate research, insights, and client priorities into clear, compelling content.
Create compelling corporate and consumer media angles and support proactive media engagement.
Undertake regular media monitoring and support issues and crisis activity.
Maintain a strong interest in current affairs, news, and international business.
Identify relevant media and social trends, insights, and opportunities.
Build and maintain relationships with relevant media and stakeholder networks.
Work effectively as part of large, busy, fast-paced, and highly motivated teams.
Support junior team members on day-to-day account activity, providing guidance.
Demonstrate strong project management and ownership.
Collaborate constructively with colleagues across practices, disciplines, and markets.
Support new business pitches through research, slide development, and media/social insights.

Requirements

Ambitious, motivated, and proactive communicators.
Strong communicators with excellent writing skills and attention to detail.
Trusted connectors between clients, teams, and media or stakeholder networks.
Demonstrate emerging leadership by anticipating needs, solving problems proactively, and driving work forward with confidence.
Own and lead specific projects and workstreams.
Support and provide guidance to junior team members.
Collaborate and integrate effectively with colleagues across different practices and teams.
Contribute to strategic planning and the delivery of integrated communications programmes.
Positive, can-do attitude to all team interactions.
Experience in communications, public affairs, or advisory disciplines.
Ability to manage multiple priorities.
Understanding of earned, owned, paid, and social media.
Creative mindset.
Ability to translate research and insights into compelling content.
Experience in media monitoring and issues/crisis activity support.
Strong interest in current affairs, news, and international business.
Ability to build and maintain relationships with media and stakeholder networks.
Strong project management skills.
Experience supporting new business pitches.

Skills

Communication
Writing
Attention to detail
Leadership
Problem-solving
Client relationship management
Strategic planning
Program management
Media relations
Social media
Content creation
Content editing
Storytelling
Media monitoring
Project management
Collaboration
Research

Location

Victoria, UK

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

About the Company

Edelman is a leading global communications marketing firm helping business and organisations evolve, promote, and protect their brands and reputations.
We are independent and family-owned, which allows us the freedom to deliver original thinking and invest in our clients.
In the UK, there are more than 600 employees based in our offices in Victoria.
We create award-winning creative communication programmes for our clients who include Microsoft, Nissan, Disneyland Paris, FedEx, Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
We have deep expertise and advise on consumer trends, research, analytics and insights, corporate reputation, health, technology, capital markets, crisis, energy, and government affairs.

Equal Opportunity

We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.