Associate Account Lead (12-month maternity cover) - The Barn, Arla Foods, Aarhus

Location: Viby J, DK

Are you ready to join The Barn and be a strategic partner to some of Arla’s most exciting brands, all while working with a passionate group of people to deliver world-class creative work?

The Barn is Arla’s in-house agency. We were created in 2019 to help Arla’s global and local brands win in a world of increasing media complexity. Our growth and success have been tremendous, and today we have a dedicated team specializing in creative development, strategy and planning, tech and data, media buying and production.

We work across markets with 40+ brands from Lurpak®, Castello® and Starbucks® to Danish icons such as Cocio and Kærgården. We have 130+ colleagues from everywhere in between the Philippines, France, and Argentina. And we have just begun. ​We have our hands in every step of the process, from business planning for our brands, campaign strategy to creative executions.

One of our colleagues will soon be going on maternity leave, and we are, therefore, seeking a new team member to join us for 12 months.

How you will make an impact
In this role as Associate Account Lead, you will join the Account Management team and help to build and strengthen our relationship with our brand teams, while collaborating across teams in The Barn to deliver best-in-class creative campaigns. This means that you’ll work on a daily basis with brand managers in Arla, but also with our planning, media, creative, production and project management teams in The Barn.

As an Associate Account Lead you will take lead on 1-3 smaller brands, and you will assist a Senior Account Lead on some larger projects for some of our largest brands – providing a great learning and growth opportunity! For the smaller brands that you take lead on, you’ll be managing the day-to-day relationship with those brands: strategic sparring on their plans, collaborating with them on briefs, and working with them from brief to delivery on the projects they run with The Barn throughout the year.

How you will be successful
As an Associate Account Lead, you have 2-4 years of experience either from the agency side in account management or the client side in a brand management role. It might also be that you are just graduating this summer, but in that case, you will need to have relevant experience from student jobs and/or internships. It’s a big plus if some of your experience exposed you to brand strategy and creative development.

You possess a range of core abilities:

• You take initiative and are proactive. When you have a question, you take it on yourself to try to find the answer. If you see that something could be done better or smarter, you try to make the change happen.
• You’re outgoing and a good communicator. You communicate clearly both verbally and written. You are fluent in English.
• You are ambitious, eager to learn and have a can-do attitude
• You’re flexible and always willing to jump into something new. You don’t get phased if what you worked on yesterday is different than what you’re working on today.
• You see the big picture, but you’re also detail oriented. You like to take a step back and see the larger objective or goal, but at the same time you can go through a long powerpoint deck and catch all the small errors.

What do we offer?
This is your shot at joining an international agency with an entrepreneurial mindset. An agency with full in-house capabilities covering everything from digital media buying/planning, tech/development, creative, strategy and on-site production. You’ll work with people from France, The Netherlands, Argentina, the Philippines, and many other lovely places. Some say The Barn is one of the best places they’ve ever worked. Must be the informal atmosphere. Or the drive. Maybe both. We’ve built the agency ourselves from the bottom up just the way we like it: Human, ambitious and fun.

Application and contact
If this sounds like the opportunity you’ve been waiting for, we’d love to hear from you! For additional information, please e-mail Senior Client Director Lotte Yde Knudsen [email protected].

We are soon off on summer leave, so therefore you will have time to update your CV and write your motivation letter and enjoy summer – however please do apply before 5 August. That Monday we will be back and dive into your applications. Expect to hear from us no later than Friday 9 August.

We have a purpose for Good
At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?

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