The job description below is fairly generic, adapt and change for level of seniority and responsibilities.
The Role
The Account Executive (AE) maintains and grows our client's business with the agency on an ongoing and project basis. They direct and coordinate the day-to-day agency efforts on behalf of the client’s product and/or service on assigned accounts. In this role, the AE insures that the agency provides:
- Sound and responsible marketing counseling and planning.
- Proper and innovative execution of work in all areas on schedule.
- A consistently superior creative product.
The role is client facing and has scope for career development and enhancing skills across a range of disciplines.
The Requirements
- Bachelors Degree in Marketing, Advertising or PR.
- Interest in and aptitude for creative business and marketing solutions
- General knowledge of web application design and build
- Minimum of 4 years experience in account management (digital, production, creative)
- Experience in Integrated marketing preferred
- Well versed in planning campaigns across multiple platforms
- Great client-facing experience
- Great project management abilities
- Self motivated and willing to expand knowledge
- Ability to self-manage while managing assigned teams and projects.
Major Contacts
The AE’s position requires ongoing and in-depth interactions with the following:
- Internal: The AE reports to the Head of Account Services. As assigned, the Account Executive has overall responsibility for leading the client service effort. Within the agency, the AE is the leader/coordinator for the client and works closely with all agency personnel in developing plans, recommendations and deliverables.
- External: The AE will have direct client contact with assigned agency clients.
Responsibilities and Duties
The AE has four areas of responsibility (specific duties of each are explained below)
- Planning, Analyzing, Evaluating
- Develop workable budgets, work plans and realistic timetables.
- Collaborates with the Account Supervisor or Manager, Client Services, on preparation of marketing recommendations, strategies and actions for the client.
- Reviews, analyzes and evaluates the following, relative to the client’s needs and objectives: media output, creative output, research reports and client data.
- Provide client platform / business updates on a regular basis to demonstrate upcoming opportunities and threats to their business
- Defining project scope, estimate and writing proposals, works with producer in the creation of project specifications and time plans.
- Team Leading, Coordinating, Managing
- Provides leadership within the agency on behalf of the client and prepares all work requests, client briefs.
- Monitors all budget, research and production activity on assigned accounts and communicates status of each project to appropriate agency and client personnel in order to meet project deadlines.
- Maintains communications with appropriate agency and client personnel to ensure positive workflow. Escalating exceptions and client issues to Director level as required
Educating clients and managing their needs and expectations.
- Keeping project status reports up to date
- Monitoring and enforcing project constraints (schedule / scope / resources)
- Champion internal systems for higher productivity working
- Project & Product Management
- Manage client projects, involved with client projects from start to finish, ensuring successful project completion against deadlines.
- Provide and maintain projects status - liaising with development teams, designers and commercial staff to provide accurate updates of project statuses
- Project quality assurance - testing and review of output, reviewing outputted deliverables against scope
- Source of assets from clients, other agencies and third party suppliers.
- To facilitate direct contact or to insulate our staff from direct contact on an as needed basis!
- Product manage long term properties including: positioning development, marketing plans, manufacturing or development needs, timeline and roadmap planning, stats analysis and reporting
4. Marketing & Sales
- Networking online and offline to find new business opportunities
- Lead and manage new business presentations as assigned
- Updating portfolio items for marketing materials
- Handling telephone calls for new leads
- Arranging sales and creative presentations and meetings
- Seeking new opportunities to add value to existing clients
- Identifying and nurturing new business opportunities within current client portfolio
- Working with clients to sign off submitted work
- Invoice chasing and escalation as needed