Experiential Account Executive, Brand Consulting

This is a Full Time Job


The Role

The Account Executive, Experiential will support the internal Experiential team, as well as clients, in the following responsibilities outlined. This role will work cross-functionally with internal/external properties, vendors, clients, and agencies to bring brand activations to life. This role will be focused on servicing one of Brand Consulting's healthcare brand clients, supporting their experiential activations across various sports partnerships.

Responsibilities
• Deliver best-in-class, business-driving experiential opportunities, ideas, and activation for brand clients.
• Support CAA's efforts in developing and maintaining relationships with world-class vendors, fabricators & technology partners.
• Participate in and contribute to project planning/development meetings and internal/external status meetings.
• Provide administrative support to the experiential team by taking notes, organizing agendas, creating tracking documents, and providing organizational frameworks.
• Work with internal cross-functional teams from brief, through pre-production, and onsite execution to ensure the highest quality and smoothest operation of the overall activation.
• Liaise with CAA's internal creative team to track progress and monitor timelines for creative production elements.
• Help identify and vet third-party vendors, request and negotiate bids, select, hire, and manage vendors & vendor contracts, payments, and deliverables; monitor and evaluate vendor performance.
• Collaborate with the internal Account Team to deliver breakthrough activation ideas that deliver against client objectives and meet sponsorship guidelines and regulations for execution.
• Support on all Event Production needs to ensure world-class execution (i.e., premiums, fabrication, event staffing, print signage, operational schedules, vendor identification and coordination, etc.).
• Work with clients, vendors, and internal teams to ensure consistent & comprehensive cross-functional communication.
• Develop & manage timelines, run of show, budgets & reconciliation for experiential activations.
• Support the management of on-site event logistics from planning through execution (including attendance at activations).
• Establish effective relationships across agency multi-disciplinary teams.
• Utilize agency resources appropriately and efficiently to ensure all agency protocols are being followed, including vendor agreements, accounting processes, recaps, etc.
• Demonstrate the highest level of critical thinking with focus on proactiveness and attention to detail.

Requirements
• Bachelor's Degree
• 1-2 years of experience in sports & entertainment experiential and/or event marketing
• Agency experience is highly preferred
• Strong relationship-building skills
• Creative and strategic thinker
• Strong writing and presentation skills
• Proficient in Excel & PowerPoint
• Willingness to work early mornings or late nights to accommodate weekends and holidays (if applicable)
• Must be able to lift heavy boxes and items up to 30 lbs
• Ability to work in the Los Angeles office a minimum of 3 days per week

Location

The Brand Consulting department offers a flexible work schedule and requires three days per week on-site at our Los Angeles office.

CAA does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless they were contractually engaged by CAA to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any such employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the acknowledgement and agreement that CAA will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.