Cossette is a bold and creative agency that empowers its team to push boundaries and drive innovation. The Account Executive plays a crucial role in client management, shaping projects and building strategic relationships to turn business goals into impactful creative work.
Responsibilities
- Act as the day-to-day steward of client partnerships, building trust through proactive communication, sharp thinking, and attention to detail
- Support strategic conversations by translating client goals into actionable creative solutions—ensuring every project strengthens the relationship
- Bring insight and curiosity to every brief
- Analyze market trends and client challenges to co-create strategies that inspire bold creative and deliver measurable impact
- Use tools like AI to uncover predictive insights and anticipate needs—positioning the agency as a future-forward partner
- Own project-level financial health with discipline and clarity
- Track budgets, manage scope changes, and flag risks early—ensuring resources are used wisely and deliver maximum value
- Work closely with Finance and internal leads to align financial performance with creative excellence
- Deliver work that performs, inspires, and builds brands
- Manage multiple projects with precision—aligning teams, timelines, and deliverables to ensure flawless execution
- Identify organic growth opportunities and support new business efforts with energy, insight, and initiative
- Be a collaborator and connector
- Mentor junior team members, share knowledge, and contribute to a culture of continuous learning
- Bring curiosity and positivity to the table, helping teams push ideas further and elevate the work, together
Skills
- 1–3 years of experience in advertising, marketing, or a related role, with exposure to project management, client relations, budgeting, and cross-functional collaboration
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with precision, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery of high-quality work
- Strong foundational understanding of marketing strategy, paired with the ability to contribute meaningfully to strategic conversations
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills—collaborate effectively with internal teams and build client trust through proactive, solution-oriented thinking
- Curious and insight-driven—able to analyze trends, anticipate challenges, and contribute to creative solutions that elevate the work
- Comfortable managing scopes, tracking budgets, and supporting financial health across projects
- Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and entrepreneurial—driven to grow, take initiative, and build lasting impact across accounts and the agency
- Experience using AI and other digital tools to enhance research, uncover insights, and inform recommendations
- Open to mentoring more junior talent and committed to fostering a positive, inclusive, high-performance team culture
- Driven by a curiosity of leveraging AI tools to advance our clients work and objectives
- Past experience in healthcare or charity sectors is an asset
Benefits
- An innovative and entrepreneurial work environment that promotes ingenuity and individuality - with the best of colleagues, and the best of clients
- Hybrid work models and flexible hours, plus a work from anywhere policy for short-term stays in other regions
- Generous Vacation starting at 3 weeks + 1 extra week over the holidays
- Agency summer days (exact policy differs per campus and agency)
- Modern, open co-working spaces with coffee & snack bars, located in great city neighborhoods, close to shops and restaurants and easy access to public transport
- Dogs allowed, dedicated Play Room to support families and Private wellness room (in select offices)
- Team social events - holiday parties, seasonal gatherings, weekly happy hours, inspiring speakers and more!
- In-house learning & development sessions and annual career and growth conversations’
- Access to internal network of opportunities across all agencies
- Focus on developing BIMPOC Talent via our BIMPOC Mentorship Program
- Internal EDI group(s), programs & initiatives across Plus Company and opportunities to be involved in employee resource group(s)
- Flexible benefits to support your individual lifestyle and life stage – with access to a personal wellness spending account you can use for a wide range of wellness expenses, including gym membership fees, pet care, education expenses, and much more!
- Comprehensive mental health support including access to a virtual mental health therapy clinic providing you with personalized therapist guided iCBT programs and live therapy, access to health clinicians 24/7, and a holistic array of other health and wellness resources to support you and your family.
- Dedicated play rooms for days you need to bring the kids and health and wellness rooms when you need a place to get grounded.
- A responsible sick & personal absence days policy designed so you don't have to worry the moment a personal obligation or emergency arises.
- Maternity leave top up program.
Company Overview
Cossette Inc., together with its subsidiaries, offers a range of communications services in Canada, the United States, and the United It was founded in 1972, and is headquartered in Quebec, Quebec, CAN, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://www.cossette.com.
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