Account Manager - Agency

The Opportunity

This is a fantastic opportunity to join NZME’s award-winning Auckland Agency Sales team as an Account Manager. You’ll support a portfolio of agency clients, building strong relationships while developing your commercial capability in a fast-paced media environment.

Working closely with your Group Account Director, Account Directors and wider commercial team, you’ll play a key role in delivering smart, integrated media solutions across NZME’s leading digital, radio and print brands. This role is ideal for someone early in their career looking to step up from a coordinator or agency planning role into a client-facing sales position.

How You’ll Do It

• You’ll support the day-to-day management of agency relationships, helping to respond to briefs and deliver high-quality, multi-platform proposals.
• Work closely with internal teams to ensure campaigns are executed seamlessly and to a high standard.
• Bring a proactive mindset, contribute ideas, and identify opportunities to grow revenue and strengthen client partnerships.
• As you build confidence, you’ll take on increasing ownership of accounts, balancing strong client service with developing commercial acumen.

About You

• 1–2 years’ experience in media, e.g. coordinator, account executive or junior planner role
• Passion for building relationships and developing a career in media sales
• Strong organisation skills and ability to manage multiple briefs
• Confident communicator with a collaborative approach
• Curious, proactive and keen to learn from a high-performing team

What’s On Offer

At NZME, we live and breathe our values of being Connected, Curious and Confident. You’ll join a supportive, high-performing team with a strong focus on learning and development.

Based in our City Central office, this is a great opportunity to build foundational sales skills, gain exposure to some of NZ’s leading agency clients, and grow your career in one of New Zealand’s leading media organisations.

We're waiting for you to join us. Apply now and let us know what excites you about this opportunity.

All applicants will be asked about their current working rights in New Zealand. (Eg. Citizen, resident, visa, no visa etc.)

New Zealand Media and Entertainment is NZ's premium integrated media group. We keep Kiwis in the know about what matters most to them, and dig into what’s going on in the world and why, as well as shining a light on the latest and greatest in news and entertainment. Combining radio, digital, and print we reach more than over 3.6 million* Kiwis every week.

We are home to more than 50 of Aotearoa’s award-winning media brands - each with its own voice, and each powered by the country’s top media personalities, journalists, broadcasters, designers, writers, commercial thinkers, operations teams, marketers, digital and tech specialists and many more. You can achieve anything you set your mind to here – the possibilities are endless!

Come and join the future of NZME. Give it your all and enjoy the ride because this could lead anywhere…