Account Executive

Anderson Marketing Group seeks a highly driven, passionate Account Executive with a minimum of 5 years agency experience to join our award-winning team.

The Account Executive is responsible for the day-to-day management of client accounts. They should be adept at communications and able to handle a broad variety of tasks with increasing independence and sound judgment. They are pro-active, highly organized and accountable for decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Key day-to-day contact with clients, creative teams and other agency partners
• Managing client objectives, expectations and timelines and communicating changes/directions to internal team members
• Owning client relationships and developing long term account strategy
• Ability to listen, interpret, and challenge client direction and clearly communicate said direction to the internal teams
• Participates in creative process and selling creative by understanding core business strategy and brand objectives
• Oversee assigned media, engagement marketing, budget coordination, meeting planning coordination, creative, and/or production activities carried out by the agency on behalf of the client
• Lead project meetings and develop status reports to ensure projects stay on track
• Build and maintain positive relationships with clients, team members, other agency partners, and external industry peers/colleagues
• Work closely with digital strategist understanding analytics reports and apply sound judgment to make recommendations based on data/findings
• Build deck presentations and recap decks/reports
• Project management/workflow system data entry and reporting
• Strategic Planning and Execution
• Support leadership on various accounts and/or projects, as needed
• Participating in the agency’s new business and proposal efforts, as requested by leadership
• All other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 5 – 7 years of agency experience
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite
• High level of initiative; takes accountability for role on projects
• Fast-paced team environment
• High degree of professionalism
• Have a great attitude and assume a high level of enthusiasm and be able to respond well under pressure
• A strong focus on accuracy, attention-to-detail, and timeliness
• Excellent oral/written communication skills with a keen ability to keep supervisors properly informed
• Self-Starter
• Ability to prioritize workload and manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• Ability to contribute to ideation, strategy development and strategy support
• Ability to proactively problem solve, mind the details, and see the big picture
• Exceptional organizational and time management skills
• A solid understanding of the advertising business and an agency’s functional processes, technologies and terms.
• Strong presentation skills
• Knowledge and experience with digital strategy is a plus
• Knowledge of Advantage is a plus

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