Senior Account Executive

**Job Description**:
**Job Title**:Senior Account Executive
**Focus**:Business Leadership
**Location**:Port of Spain, Trinidad
**Reports to**:Head of Business Leadership
**About McCann Worldgroup**:
McCann Worldgroup, part of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), is a leading global marketing solutions network with over 20,000 employees united across 100+ countries by a single vision: To help brands earn a meaningful role in people's lives. McCann Worldgroup was recognized by the Cannes Lions as the 2019 Network of the Year and by the Effies as the world's most creatively-effective marketing services company in 2018, 2019, and 2020. The network is comprised of McCann (advertising), MRM (data science/technology/relationship marketing), Momentum (sponsorship and total brand experience), McCann Health (professional/dtc health care communications), and CRAFT (production).
The strength of our creative capability and innovative thinking has led to some of the world's most celebrated, effective, game-changing work for top brands. Maximizing that strength means bringing together an extensive mix of socially, culturally, and cognitively diverse talent - and creating conditions where they feel empowered to boldly share the fullest expression of their unique worldview. We fiercely believe in the power of creativity and innovation to positively influence society and inspire greater equity and inclusion within the communities we serve. So, every day we deliberately and intentionally choose to embody our global philosophy of Conscious Inclusion and, in turn, fuel our mission to help brands earn a meaningful role in people's lives.
**The Role**:
McCann Worldgroup seeks a **Senior Account Executive** to join our team here in PORT OF SPAIN. This person will be supporting brands that are leaders in their categories and are creating breakthrough, award-winning marketing. They will be essential to the continued success of our creative work, which is fully integrated across experiential, social, digital, and traditional.
Senior Account Executives will provide and support solutions that exceed clients' marketing, advertising, and branding needs. They should be inquisitive of the links between brand behavior, popular culture, business results, and emerging communications and technology trends. They are a voracious news consumer of brand, specialized reporting, and creative - both on a global and local scale, inside and outside marketing.
**The Team**
The Business Leadership team here at McCann Worldgroup pride themselves on being relentless in converting opportunities for our clients, our agency, and our community. We are curious, strategic, and creative with a never-ending passion for doing fantastic work.
**The Ask**
**For our McCann Worldgroup Senior Account Executive, leadership manifests across**:
**Our People**:
Find, develop, align, and inspire talent: our talent is our biggest asset. We must cultivate an environment of generosity, learning, possibilities, bravery, and smarts that is equally inspirational and efficient/actionable.
**Our Clients**:
Demonstrate an understanding of and share their passion for the brand, as well as their pressures and frustrations.
**Our Creativity**:
Have a point of view, and never be afraid to share it. If a Senior Account Executive knows their clients and their issues, the Senior Account Executive will understand what is right and not.
Collaborate with creatives about the work to ensure comprehension and ownership.
**Our Process**:
Be a strategic business partner for your client - understand the strategic direction and critical challenges facing their business and quickly become a strong partner.
Work collaboratively with planning to steer and inform the direction of the strategy. Look for further opportunities for the brand and, ultimately, the agency.
**Our Place**:
Drive the triumvirate way of working within the office and across the brands (strategy, business, creative).
**Our Promotion**:
Be the industry's and Business Leadership's voice/face.
**What You Will Do**:
**The Senior Account Executive for McCann Worldgroup will be required to**:
- Be a champion for outstanding work and effectively support and sell new ideas.
- Become the steward of any assigned projects. Monitor progress, implement changes, share updates, and formulate possible remedies for challenges as needed.
- Assist in developing and presenting strategies along with fellow team members and preparing proposals to internal team members and clients.
- Source, identify, and package daily consumer and culture news/trends, inspiring agency & client team's strategic and creative development.
- Be the conductor among different areas within the agency to ensure we are delivering the best-integrated solutions to our clients.
- Help develop project budgets by conducting research and reconcile billing and estimating variances.
- Assist in training and mentoring junior staff.
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**Who You Will Be**:
**To be succes

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