Latitude | Account Director
Account Service
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Description
Account Director
In A Nutshell:
A leader and driver within the agency you own the client relationship and the management of your team to effectively produce the best outcomes for clients and create ongoing opportunities for the agency. A visionary, a strategist, a mentor, and a master of detail you are accountable for the final outcome of each project. Your leadership emulates eternal optimism, never settling for anything less than excellence, and you drive your team to do the same.
Ins and Outs:
• Serve as the daily contact to the client
• Lead client marketing planning process, and business strategy development
• Facilitate client communication that ensures vision, needs, and requirements are understood and executed appropriately
• Facilitate client planning, client negotiation and pricing structure
• Define scope, timelines, resource needs and approval of briefs
• Financial monitoring and reporting
• Delegate opportunities ensuring team growth and opportunity
• Own all client SOW’s/Proposals
• Develop creative briefs and overall client brand/creative strategy
• Participate in new business initiatives including seeking out new opportunities for partnership
• Collaborate with strategists on new business background, strategy and pitch development
• Manage staff with clear expectations, ongoing feedback and encouragement
• Collaborate with creative and production departments to ensure flawless execution of projects
• Articulate agency capabilities
In Your Back Pocket:
• Bachelor's degree (B. A. / B. S.) in marketing, advertising or communications
• 8+ years of agency or agency related experience that includes branding strategic design assignments
• Ability and comfort authoring reports, business correspondence, procedure manuals and presentation decks
• Retail experience a must
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Knowledge of InDesign, Adobe Suite, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Gmail, Harvest Time, and Macintosh applications
• Leadership skills and a passion for growing people
• Desire to work in a fast-paced environment
• Professionalism
• Strong attention to detail and strong ability to multi-task
• Excellent written and verbal skills
• Strong creative problem-solving skills
• Desire to always be learning
• Sense of humor, friendly demeanor and a desire to build community
• Working knowledge of Google Docs, email, calendar and Microsoft Office
Who We Are:
Purpose is the great multiplier of talent—the greater the purpose, the greater the talent. It is our purpose to create meaningful brand experiences, to nurture the talent of our people and to elevate others who live in extreme poverty.
We’ve seen first-hand how extreme poverty denies so many in the developing world of the chance to fully use their talents. That’s why we invest 50% of our profits towards elevating humanity. Doing great work for the greater good is the animating force that unites us and bring even more meaning to elevating brands.
We are an equal opportunity employer.