Full-time SDR, Lumanity

01Overview / About us

We’re The Leith Agency a creative, strategically minded, digitally savvy team of over 130 working in Edinburgh (often ranked as one of the world’s best cities to live in).

Leith is part of Lumanity, a global consultancy with over 1200 employees through the United Kingdom, Europe, United States, and India.

02Responsibilities / Position overview

We’re growing the work we do in the Health & Wellbeing sector and are looking to add a new Account Executive to our team.

We currently work on a range of clients internationally and in the UK. We have ambitious plans to grow the business. Given the nature of the work, it will be a bonus for candidates to have language skills.

But more importantly you must be passionate about using communications to help make a difference to the health and well-being of people, from helping increasing vaccination rates in meningitis and RSV for children to telling the story of the science behind the world’s most innovative medicines.

You’ll be liaising with our clients:

Preparing and circulating information for the team and clients

Maintaining regular contact with clients through calls, meetings, presentations and informally in a proactive way.

Helping ensure the agency’s standards and reputation in all external dealings are maintained.

You’ll be working on projects with the team including:

03Briefing internal departments and external suppliers

Ensure the projects on the team are kept on track and the team and clients are fully informed of project progress.

Looking after the pennies and the pounds by:

Keeping accurate and comprehensive financial records for every project being managed.

Supporting with estimating jobs that are briefed from our clients

04Qualifications

1 year experience in a similar role

Show an interest in working in the creative industries

05Have good written and verbal communication skills

Ideally language skills in European languages (French ideally)

Relentless attention to detail.

A problem-solving personality, with the desire to help your colleagues

Most importantly a passion for creating meaningful work that improves the health and well-being of people.

06Benefits

• What’s in it for you?
• You’ll get to work at an award-winning agency with smart people who have a huge variety of skills
• Hybrid and flexible working as well as a nice, airy, cushy office right on The Shore of Leith
• An electric car and cycle to work scheme to save you cash for saving the planet
• Regular company-wide learning sessions and a suite of training courses through our parent company
• Vitality Private Health Insurance
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave and shared parental leave
• Pension plan with employer contributions and much more
• -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Leith is an equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity. We want everyone working here (or at home) to be able to reach their full potential, feel like they can be themselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of family-friendly and inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, a mentoring scheme, and take an individual and flexible approach to supporting staff from different backgrounds. Please feel free to discuss any working requirements you have in your interview.