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Medialab is the UK’s leading independent media agency, and one of the fastest growing in the industry. We’re a media agency that’s made differently: purpose-led, data-driven, founder-run and proudly independent.
Our entrepreneurial spirit means success is recognised and rewarded. There are no limits to what you can achieve here, which our employees agree with, evidenced by being a Campaign Best Place to Work for six consecutive years and one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025. As well as this, we’re Campaign’s Independent Agency of the Year 2024 and Media Week’s Independent Agency of the Year 2025.
Our independence means we can focus 100% on doing the right thing to secure success for our clients and our brilliant people. We work with a wide variety of clients including Hovis, IG, Sharps Bedrooms, SunLife, Standard Life, Ancestry, Laithwaites Wine, Save the Children, Guide Dogs, Alzheimer’s Society, RNLI and Clearscore.
OUR VALUES
- Commit to Doing the Right Thing (Act with integrity and accountability)
- Help People Flourish (Invest in people)
- Dig Deeper to Understand Better (Data driven curiosity)
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU
Working at Medialab comes with lots of perks including all the usual things you would expect, such as a competitive salary package, pension, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, weekly social events and big summer / end of year parties.
On top of that, we offer extra benefits, which make life at Medialab even more rewarding:
- Time to Unwind – We offer generous holiday entitlement that increases with long service, plus Christmas closure and a birthday day off. Alongside this, we offer flexible benefits including a holiday buy scheme, flexi-hours, a work abroad scheme, cultural bank holiday swaps, and Friday Summer hours.
- Hybrid Working – Balance between home and office (3 Days in Office). We welcome requests for flexible working arrangements from the commencement of employment.
- Career Growth – A meritocratic approach to progression with quarterly reviews, CPD Platinum accredited training, mentoring and leadership support.
- Health & Wellbeing – Private medical insurance, health cash plan, gym discounts, wellbeing apps, Mental Health First Aiders and free professional counselling.
- Supporting Families – Enhanced parental leave pay, flexible working and life assurance.
- Giving Back – Paid charity days and sustainability initiatives.
- Perks & Rewards – Retail discounts, long-service trips and an unforgettable team culture.
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YOUR NEXT CHALLENGE
We are looking for an Account Executive to join our growing Client Leadership team and play an important role in delivering brilliant media campaigns for some of the UK’s most ambitious brands and charities.
This role is ideal for someone who already has some experience in planning (with offline planning, particularly AV planning as a bonus) and wants to build deeper comms planning expertise across holistic campaigns. You’ll gain hands-on experience across brand and performance campaigns, contribute to planning and client discussions.
HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT
- Support the planning process for campaigns, across key accounts with additional hands-on learning within offline.
- Support with regular reporting cycles, using planning tools to help answer campaign briefs with support from wider team, and work with the wider activation team to develop your channel knowledge.
- Support the team to help turn insights into clear, useful commentary that links back to client KPIs and helps teams make better decisions.
- Help keep client and internal teams updated through clear status reports, meeting notes, action trackers, and timely follow-ups.
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WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TEAM
- A 'can do' attitude to help the team and be inquisitive to help solve problems.
- A curiosity for offline planning and willingness to learn in this space.
Must Have Skills
- Some hands-on experience of paid media channels, namely offline such as AV, OOH, Audio or Print.
- You are curious, proactive and genuinely interested in how paid media drives outcomes for clients.
- Strong attention to detail and confidence working with data in Excel, Google Sheets and PowerPoint.
- You are comfortable working with numbers, campaign data and a good communicator.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to provide timely updates to internal teams, clients and media partners.
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks, deadlines and campaigns.
Nice to Have Skills
- Experience using AV planning tools such as DEN, Media Ocean suite, Adalyser, Tech Edge but not essential.
- Experience with planning tools, dashboards or data visualisation platforms.
- Exposure to wider channels such as digital.
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