
Account Supervisor
- Chicago, IL
- $90,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Be a liaison to multiple internal and external stakeholders to ensure integration across the business monitoring, projecting and providing innovative solutions to marketing issues.
- Understand and manage a complex and technical workstream; oversee and guide technology and development teams against business objectives.
- Support business role and account side of technical work and decisioning, while understanding and managing details of technical development work in the context of a larger business picture and multi-year roadmap.
- Demonstrate accountability for agency performance, as well as financial and commercial management of the businesses.
- Facilitate the development of project briefs, working with strategic planners and analysts.
- Manage client expectations, objectives, timelines, and budgets.
- Lead an integrated agency model to ensure agency teams are aligned and working against shared goals.
- Manage interface with clients, creative teams, production, and consulting teams.
- Encourage client consideration and application of agency-generated POVs when developing ideas and advertising plans.
- Collaborate with other depts. (analytics, marketing strategy, creative, technology, etc.) to create and activate marketing communications plans, and SME showcases.
- Evaluate the input and ideas of creative, media and strategic planning relative to strategy and client preferences.
- Advocate for the business internally, and keeps the agency team informed, focused, and enthused about the work and the business.
- 5-8+ years of account management agency experience required, direct marketing and digital marketing or CRM background.
- Previous work with technical and development teams.
- Agile training or experience is a plus.
- Demonstrated solid mid-level client experience and ability to navigate complex client organizations required.
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, or related field.
- Needs to be comfortable with ambiguity at times (both with clients and internally) be able to demonstrate flexibility and creative problem solving.
- Very experienced in presenting information both orally and in writing with excellent interpersonal, presentation and written skills.
- Positive attitude and sound work ethic with the desire to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to demonstrate flexibility and creative problem solving.
- Sets and manages multiple project deliverables including time and cost estimates with internal and external clients.
- Understands and manages factors related to account profitability, client satisfaction, and client retention.
- Needs to be a team player, friendly, easy to work with.
- Needs to be able to handle many different personalities both internally and externally.
- Proven ability to independently manage multiple priorities in a fast paced and deadline driven environment.
- Ability to work effectively and proactively within a team setting that is geographically dispersed.