Our Account Manager enjoy working in a fast paced environment and love the challenge of discovering what drives and moves consumers.
Here's where you come in.
Life Cycle Management
- Plans, mobilizes and manages projects holistically, keeping them organized and moving smoothly from start to finish to ensure successful completion.
- Demonstrates ability to build accurate project plans with budget, schedules, resources, and processes in mind.
- Write and execute statement of work, scope, cost estimate, tasks, timeline, budget, and development based on project requirements and plans.
Organization
- Keeps information clear, accessible, and accurate.
- Ensures assets and materials are tracked, organized, categorized, and delivered consistently, efficiently, and effectively.
Framework, Process & Requirement
- Understands and uses agency tools and processes to streamline project planning, mobilization, and management.
- Operationalize people's time and their work optimize team's availability through effective resources management
- Plan key touch points such as kick-offs, brainstorms, and deliverable reviews.
- Ensures teams and work follow agency, client, advertising frameworks/best practices and legal requirements.
- Drive Operations Excellence - Provide suggestions on ways to optimize through close collaboration with finance, client service, operations, and legal on project and client requirements.
Strategic Understanding
- Understands the purpose, context, and implications of key parts of their role as it relates to the larger organization.
- Focuses on big picture thinking and analyzing information that demonstrates an understanding of the why for clients, the team, and the work.
- Problem Solving
- Ability to think critically about a problem and proactively find effective and sustainable solutions to help resolve.
- Applies learnings from prior projects/experiences to the current work.
People Management
- Build and cultivate strong and collaborative partnerships with team members cross-departmentally in order to successfully drive the work forward for the team, business and client.
- Communication
- Ability to apply active listening in order to gather deeper context & insights to fully understand the needs of the team.
- Using appropriate, transparent, and accurate details & context when communicating.
- Being clear and effective to specific audiences (whether it's written or verbal).
Proactivity
- Self-starter in daily tasks; works well independently and as part of the team.
- Ability to adapt to different situations and make proactive adjustments where necessary.
- Intrinsically motivated to continuously grow and learn in role.
- Drive quality in end product.
- Demonstrate pride in the process and product, and take accountability for the work
Your Experience
- 5+ years of experience managing projects, coordinating teams, and other planning-related duties, preferably in the creative ad space.
- Time management is your cup of tea.
- Experience in budget development and contract (SOW) writing.
- Thrives in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
- Out of the box lead and practical hands-on experience in project management.
- You make and lead stuff to happen.
- Hungry for great work (and good food)
