About Us:
As campus media specialists, we propel brands and organisations right to the heart of student culture—reaching them when and where they’re most receptive to brand action and discovery. Our student advertising platform unifies the student advertising landscape, making it easy for advertisers like Hobbycraft, Lloyds Bank, and Contiki to connect with student consumers at scale while also generating additional commercial income for Students’ Unions.
Our roots lie within Students’ Unions, who are our partners. Whether through exclusive or non-exclusive agreements, our relationships with SUs provide brands with a single point of access to all 2.86 million students. We hold unique, real-time insight into how student communities function, ensuring that when brands use native to engage students, they do so from the most informed and effective perspective.
What you’ll be working on:
As an Account Executive, you will play a crucial role in supporting our Account Managers to successfully deliver client campaigns. This is a dynamic and varied position, working across multiple client marketing campaigns at once - ensuring seamless execution, and contributing to impactful brand activations.
Your day-to-day activities will include:
- You will support an Account Manager in overseeing and delivering national and enterprise client accounts. This includes managing the sales pipeline, contributing to concept ideation, assisting with pitches, overseeing campaign execution, and supporting reconciliation processes.
- While the role is primarily operational, there will be occasions when you will be client-facing. To succeed, you’ll need a strong understanding of all assigned projects and campaigns, ensuring you can confidently support discussions and decision-making.
- Your responsibilities will span a range of essential tasks, including booking media placements, maintaining and updating our CRM system, assisting with budget management, support writing compelling pitch decks and proposals, generating accurate quotes, and managing supplier relationships, including negotiations.
- From time to time, you will also be involved in on-the-ground campaign delivery across the UK, supporting event activations and experiential marketing initiatives.
- The campaigns you work on will span multiple media channels, including digital marketing, advertising, live events, and experiential activations.
You should apply if:
- You have at least 1 year of experience in media, events, experiential marketing or advertising - both digitally and on the ground during event delivery.
- You’ll have a strong understanding of the Gen Z marketing and advertising environment and preferably within the UK University space.
- Ideally, you’ll have gone to a UK university and been immersed in the events and Students' Union culture.
- A proactive, optimistic attitude with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to prioritise conflicting tasks independently. Whether meeting pitch and budget deadlines or managing suppliers on the ground.
- Experience working with Salesforce CRM software and project management tools is a plus.
What's in it for you:
💰 Basic Salary: £30k - £35k per year + 20% OTE
🏫 Pension contributions of 5%
🏖️ 25 days off (excluding bank holidays)
🎂 Day off on your birthday
📈 Share Options for all
💻 A Mac or Windows laptop
👨🏽💻 Work from home set-up budget
🐶 Dog-friendly office
🌿 Health and Wellbeing budget
🥗 Wednesday free office lunches
🚂 Season Ticket Loan Scheme
👶 Paid maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave
Equal Opportunity Statement
We are actively creating an equitable environment for everyone at native to thrive.
Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we are making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at native. At native, embracing diversity in all of its forms and foster an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us.
Important Notice: No Agencies
Please note that we do not have established agreements with recruitment agencies for this position. We encourage interested candidates to apply directly through our application process. Any unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles submitted by agencies will be treated as voluntary and will not incur any associated fees.