Careers at Harvard

The role

Harvard is hunting for a brilliant Junior Planner with a passion for technology and an ambition to work on digital marketing campaigns for some of the biggest tech brands in the world.

As a member of our planning team, you will have c.2-3 years’ experience and will be given the opportunity to work across our full-suite of B2B and consumer accounts. You will work closely with our Digital Planner and our Group Planning Director.

This Junior Planner position is an important hire for our growing and busy planning team, and will help on current marketing and PR clients and supporting on new business. This role will work across the team’s full remit, but with a particular focus on digital campaigns.

Specific responsibilities

• Use data and actionable insight to help develop, target, optimise and measure digital campaigns spanning the full customer journey
• Use social listening and analytics tools to identify new opportunities, insights and trends
• Work closely with our Digital Planner to ensure campaigns are delivered on time and to scope, and exceed client expectations
• Support on new business efforts through desk research and data analysis

Skills and expertise

• Experience using digital tools such as Google Analytics, Moz/SEMRush and social listening software (eg Pulsar or Brandwatch)
• Experience in developing, optimising and reporting on paid and organic social campaigns
• Experience with data analysis, formatting and presentation
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Behaviours

• Demonstrate the Harvard values – social, curious, open, responsible, entrepreneurial and expert

• Contribute to a positive atmosphere in your team
• Demonstrate strong understanding of the technology sector
• Demonstrate strong understanding of the media and digital trends

To apply, please send your CV to DOates@VCCPBusiness.com

The Role

We are looking for a motivated, organised, and driven account manager to take a key role in a growing client services team.  You will be responsible for the project management of several fast-paced client accounts, contributing to planning and execution of campaigns, having a strong organisational outlook and professional working style. You will be a natural at establishing and developing client relationships, demonstrating the ability to manage multiple workstreams, and be a safe pair of hands for demanding clients at industry leading organisations.

You will contribute to the overall development of the agency, playing a central role on its flagship client, assisting senior team in identifying and securing new business opportunities, and helping to refine and develop our value proposition. Part of your role will be to help develop junior staff to help them overcome challenges; demonstrate our culture and values at all times.

Specific responsibilities

Account role and administration

• Responsibility for driving implementation of agreed client programmes/ work
• Project planning and development of critical paths and timetables for all client work
• Oversee preparations for account meetings and ensure account team, including Director, is fully prepared for these
• Produce/ review written materials, including briefing documents and client emails, ensuring they are delivered to an excellent standard
• Regular creative input to account work, including identifying and generating opportunities for promoting account objectives
• Contribute to strategic discussions about client accounts
• Lead and contribute strongly in meetings, with ideas and input across all activity
• Support senior team members in acting as Consultant to client, giving strong advice and input
• Assist Director and Team Leads in developing budgets for client projects and have regard to these in implementing account programmes
• Manage and delegate work in a timely fashion
• Assume Account Directors’ responsibilities in their absence/ unavailability
• Compiling and interpreting comprehensive results database of outcomes from client work – e.g. blog reads, Twitter engagement, Google Analytics insights
• Managing social media accounts, maximising engagement opportunities and ensuring accounts are run according to Harvard best practice guide
• Drafting of best-in-class, rapidly produced written materials, including blog posts, briefing documents, and case studies
• Producing top-quality audio-visual content – including, but not limited to, animated gifs, video, infographics and Periscopes. This may be producing the content yourself or applying creative direction and managing freelancers

Skills and expertise

• Technical digital skills: spread across, insights, social media management, content creation, paid and SEO
• New business and commercial skills:
  • Carrying out desk research, social media audits and insights
• Project management and delivery skills:
  • Exemplary project management skills, with an eye for detail and consistent use of Harvard process documents and templates
  • Co-ordinating subject matter experts and content creators in the delivery of projects and campaigns, working closely with opps lead for traffic management
• Teamwork and management skills:
  • Strong teamworking ethic, supported team’s business goals, colleague’s developmental goals and clients’ objectives
• Maintain knowledge of both the technology industry and the marketing sector, keeping a constant eye on news and latest trends

Business development

• New business research, researching companies, relevant issues, media coverage, sector debate etc to inform new business presentations/ proposals
• Contribute to developing case studies of client work for website, credentials presentations
• Contributing to new business pitches, particularly in creative ideas and digital recommendations
• Assist in the development of new Digital Engagement products and services

Behaviours

• Demonstrate Harvard’s values – social, curious, open, responsible, entrepreneurial and expert
• Contribute to sustaining a positive culture at Harvard
• Professional presentation at all times
• Be responsible for sustaining a high quality of work and meeting deadlines across your accounts

Providing out of hours support when required

About the team

Harvard’s creative department is young, but we’ve already made a huge difference to the agency. We want you to help us continue that journey. You’ll be joining a team under the creative leadership and vision of our creative director, who has years of experience in award-winning ad agencies. Our mission is to build up the creative department and its offering as an integrated agency for the modern world. We believe there’s a huge opportunity to make it our own and do some great work.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the design and development of online and offline projects, delivering against tight deadlines
• Support the creative team in day-to-day activities to ensure projects are completed to brief
• Use your awareness of design processes to question and challenge design briefs, solve design problems and take concepts to the next level
• Work closely with the studio manager to prioritise workloads
• Be aware of current design trends and attitudes to help inspire your work
  (and the team)
• General studio housekeeping, such as filing, archiving and process management

About You:

• 1-2 years agency experience
• Excellent creative standards and meticulous attention to detail
• Strong portfolio that illustrates strong ideation, layout, typographic and visualising skills
• Ability to adhere to branding style guidelines
• An understanding of digital and social media
• Familiarity with pre-press production and proper file setup for print
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Commercially minded
• Great time management skills with the ability to deliver against tight deadlines
  and demands
• Stress-resistant, confident, self-motivated and above all a team player
• Excellent working knowledge of Adobe Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, and all Microsoft Office software
• 3D or animation (likely Adobe After Effects) and/or Powerpoint would be a welcome bonus

So if you feel your next move could be a career-defining one – you’re in good company. Everyone here at Harvard has been there too.