The Global Account Executive is responsible for supporting the central team with administrative, operational and account management tasks. They support the coordination across stakeholders, manage trackers, and ensure seamless running of daily operations, working alongside the Account Manager. This role requires a high level of organization to track the different market onboardings, campaign launches and ensuring that global mandates are efficiently communicated to all markets.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Serve as day-to-day contact alongside the Account Manager for global and local stakeholders on market transitions, campaign operations, deliverables and governance matters. 

• Support the local markets in their transition: attending pre-chemistry sessions to ensure presentations are in line with global requirements and maintaining weekly contact up to the first campaign. 

• Create global documentation such as playbooks and ways of working and act as a guarding of the global ways of working. This means ensuring all processes and deliverables follow Decathlon’s operating model and campaign tiering framework. 

• Support the market transition by liaising between Havas local teams and Global Media Lab to ensure a timely, accurate, and consistent campaign execution and reporting. 

• Support the Account Manager on tasks related to global briefing and validation workflow, consolidating inputs from markets and performing quality checks and strategic alignment before submission to Decathlon. 

• Maintain and regularly update the global governance toolkit. This includes the transition tracker, staffing plans, timelines, and market organization charts.

• Support the Account Manager in the collection and consolidation of performance data, budget updates, and campaign reporting for quarterly business reviews, reconciliations, and media mix evaluations. 

• Liaise with Decathlon’s global team and provide guidance to local markets to ensure consistent adoption of tools, templates and taxonomy.  

Profile:  

• Min 2 years’ experience supporting media account management, ideally in a multi-market or global client setting. 

• A sound understanding of omnichannel media planning, with a good understanding of digital media platforms (programmatic, social and search). 

• Ability to manage international stakeholders, coordinate teams across different time zones, and operate in a cross-functional team. 

• Fluent in English (written and spoken). Other languages are a plus.  

• Excellent communication, presentation and organizational skills, comfortable communicating with different levels of seniority and large groups.  

• Detail oriented and proactive, supporting the account manager by having a solid handle on different workstreams.

• Comfortable with reporting tools across MS Office and Google: Excel, PowerPoint, shared drives, Google Sheets, Google Slides etc.  

• Knowledge of retail, sporting goods, or performance marketing is a plus. 

• A team player, passionate about client excellence, and delivering operational rigor in a fast-paced international environment.  

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