Job Description

🚀 Kick off your career with Retail Marketing Group as an Account Executive!

The Fine Print:

Pay: £27,500 alongside benefits such a Bupa Healthcare and Income Protection*

Location: Home based, with travel to client offices and business meetings

Vacancy Type: This is a parental cover role, minimum 9 month contract that may extend to 14 months, full-time

Start date: 22nd June

Working pattern: 37.5 hours Monday to Friday

Reporting to: Account Director

Are you super organised, commercially aware, and excited by the idea of supporting well-known brands through exceptional operational delivery? Do you love being the person who keeps projects running smoothly, solves problems early, and adds real value to clients and internal teams?

If that sounds like you, this could be the perfect next move.

Retail Innovation Group is looking for a proactive, detail-focused Account Executive to join our RMG team, supporting tactical, permanent and digital client activity, field team operations, and marketing/content coordination.

🌟 What You’ll Be Doing

Operational Excellence

You’ll be the backbone of day-to-day delivery across RMG by:

• Managing travel logistics across RMG (hotels, trains, flights, taxis, meetings).
• Handling weekly and monthly processes such as report audits, PO management, and credit card reconciliation.
• Ensuring everything we deliver, from reports to client decks, is accurate, polished, and on brand.

Account & Client Support

You’ll support client activity through:

• Supporting with the preparation of client decks, weekly updates, and quarterly reports.
• Supporting meetings with agendas, notes, follow-ups and data collation.
• Keeping close to client budgets and helping drive more efficient decision-making.

Collaboration & Communication

You’ll partner with teams across the business including:

• Finance, Payroll, Operations, Commercial and Warehouse teams.
• Third-party suppliers to support stock, merchandise, and equipment logistics.

Insight, Research & Continuous Improvement

You’ll add value by:

• Conducting market, competitor, and category research.
• Supporting QBRs and new business proposals through insights and content creation.
• Spotting opportunities to enhance processes and improve operational efficiency.

🧠 What You’ll Bring

Core Strengths

• Exceptional organisation, accuracy and prioritisation skills.
• Strong communication, clear, professional, and confident.
• Commercial awareness, with an understanding of budgets and cost control.
• A proactive, solutions focused mindset and ownership of end-to-end tasks.
• Creativity in content creation with a commitment to brand standards.
• Adaptability, you stay calm and effective when things get busy or change quickly.

Experience

• Experience in an operational, coordination, support, or marketing role is beneficial.
• Experienced in Microsoft Suites and comfortable with Google sheets too.
• Comfortable using multiple digital tools and systems.
• Confidence working with data, reports, and client-facing materials.

🎯 How Success Will Be Measured

You’ll shine in this role when you consistently deliver:

• 100% accuracy on monthly reconciliation and PO processing.
• High-quality auditing of field activity reports.
• Smooth, cost-effective travel and logistics management.
• Well-managed merchandise and stock coordination.
• Strong contributions to QBRs, proposals and new business.
• Engaging, consistent social content that supports our brand.
• Relevant industry insights that support client conversations and strategy.

💛 Why Join RMG at RIG?

You’ll be part of a collaborative, forward-thinking team where:

• Your organisation and attention to detail make a real impact.
• You’ll build experience across operations, marketing, client support, and insights.
• You’re encouraged to bring new ideas, challenge the norm, and contribute to continuous improvement.
• No two days look the same, and you’ll play a key role in elevating our clients’ retail experiences.

Benefits

Upon completing 6 months in the role, the following benefits activate:

• Bupa healthcare and dental cover
• Life assurance
• Income Protection
• Wellbeing Services

🤖 A Note on AI and Applications

At RMG, we’re proud to be a progressive, forward-thinking business that embraces innovation – including the use of AI tools to support creativity, productivity, and efficiency.

We understand that AI can be a helpful resource when crafting applications, but we want to hear your voice. What makes you you? What unique qualities, experiences, and perspectives will you bring to our team?

We’re not looking for a generic, AI-generated response, we’re looking for authenticity. So if you’ve used AI to help structure your application, that’s absolutely fine, just make sure it reflects your personality, your passion, and your potential. Let your individuality shine. We can’t wait to get to know the real you.

As a business we a dedicated on ensuring every candidate has the support required to be successful during the recruitment process. If you have any accessibility needs or adjustment supports and would like to know what we can offer please get in touch.