Job Order: 5572
Staff Representative: Tim Jadwin
Position: VP, Account Director
Location: New York
Company Summary:
A consumer healthcare advertising agency.
Description:
Job Responsibilities:
- Leads brand team in delivering a high level of performance for client. Provides strategic direction to meet client-marketing objectives for brands
- Supervises tactical planning and direction on assigned account; builds and maintains positive, lasting client relationships; ensures that client perceives that agency is always providing value-added services.
- Ensures sound strategic planning, timely and accurate implementation, good service and a solid client/agency relationship.
- Provides clear strategic direction to creative team.
- Ensures ongoing positive communication with client; raises any issues promptly and provides recommendations for solutions
- Provides ongoing financial direction to agency and client with respect to staffing, changes in client budget, clients’ financial expectations, supervises hours and expense tracking
- Drives agency participation in client business planning process
- Evaluates creative product against strategic direction, and provides constructive feedback
- Follows market conditions to provide revised strategic recommendations to client against changing market dynamics
- Spearheads the presentation to client of annual plans and significant interim programs
- Cultivates relationships with appropriate thought leaders to help maintain solid knowledge of client’s business
- Keeps management informed of account status, problems, plans, and meetings and gets senior management involved as needed.
- Cultivates opportunities to grow and develop client business
- Actively pursues new business opportunities within existing clients
- Develops additional business organically.
- Assists Director of Operations and Managing Director with obtaining new business.
- Supervises junior account personnel to implement account marketing plans profitably
- Coaches account team by providing regular feedback, development opportunities, and training as needed to enhance team’s skills and performance.
- Implements agency policies and procedures.
- Delegates responsibly but remains accountable for outcomes.
Minimum qualifications and skills required:
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 7+ years of related work experience in account management required
- Demonstrated experience working on a wide range of accounts and categories (pharma a plus).
- Interactive experience a must.
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