What are the responsibilities and job description for the Account Director, Lifestyle position at M Booth?
Who We Are:
At M Booth, we are a culture-first communications agency that attracts the best people and the best brands to a workplace that’s alive with courage, ideas, respect and humanity. We are relentlessly passionate about our clients and their business, whether that means staying at the forefront of the digital and social evolution, sharpening our earned storytelling skills or unleashing game-changing insights that result in campaigns that win in the marketplace. We invite you into our world of creativity, ideation, and communication. Come Be Inspired...Come work with us at M Booth.
What You’ll Do:
As an Account Director, you are a team lead on running critical pieces of the business, managing account teams and being a client counselor. You are a key member of new business pitches as well as selling in projects to clients. The SAS is drafting and creating programs and has a large hand in client budgeting. At this level, you are a key participant in hiring decisions and have a strong grasp of team and billable work as it relates to staff and client budgeting. In sum, the AD is expected to be tenacious in motivating teams, inspiring clients as you go above-and-beyond to understand their business and managing up in an effective manager to senior leadership.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for team deliverables and client communication
- Have a strong grasp on account profitability
- Create, review, and track budgeting
- Set performance standards for account teams
- Supervise and direct account teams on communicating client deliverables
- Responsible for team updates on yearly plans and assignments
- Provide strong editorial support and strategic counsel to teams clients
- A problem solver for the team
- A strategic voice for the client
- Drive significant media relations activities, jumping in from a strategic perspective
- Participate in staffing decisions (candidate interviews and hiring)
- Maintain strong media influencer connections within your practice
- Create programmatic synergies between press, influencer social efforts on behalf of clients
- Lead client calls and meetings
- Collaborate on budgeting programs
- Actively participate in new business activities
- Oversee special events experiential activations (virtual and in-person)
- The ideal candidate will have a solid foundation in consumer marketing specifically traditional public relations, large integrated programming, social strategy, and influencer marketing. Experience with Wine and Spirits is an added bonus but not a must.
What You’ll Bring
- 5 Years of experience on an Account and ideally on the agency side in some capacity
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Experience managing a team of 3-4 direct reports
What We’ll Bring
Here are a few highlights of our benefits offerings as an M Boother:
- A workplace that’s alive with courage, ideas, respect and humanity
- Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career
- Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for your entire family
- A 401(k) Savings Plan and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Paid holidays, Unlimited Paid Time Off (Personal, Sick, Vacation), and Summer Fridays
- Additional Perks: Family Leave, Well-Being Programs, & Commuter Benefits
- $101K -130K
M Booth & Associates is an equal opportunity employer. All candidates will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws