Summary:
Overall, the Group Account Director role is a senior-level position that requires strong leadership skills, business acumen, and the ability to manage complex client relationships.
The Role:
- Lead a large integrated, multifaceted account, with campaigns for multiple high-profile brands, overseeing the account team.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with senior clients.
- Ensure that all work is strategically and creatively on target.
- Ability to craft and recognize good creative strategies that deliver on a marketing need.
- Maintain account profitability.
- Be the business expert by identifying and securing key growth opportunities across multiple and complex workstreams. This may involve infiltrating client organizations to gain a deeper understanding of their needs and challenges.
- Drive transformational business growth for the client and agency. This will involve developing and implementing strategies to achieve client business goals, as well as working closely with internal teams to ensure that all work is aligned with client overall objectives.
- Provide senior leadership, guidance, and mentorship to assigned account and cross-functional teams.
- Partner with other client agencies, as needed, and as part of an interagency
- Provide support to the executive committee related to agency, team, and management policies and
- Work on relevant new business, when appropriate.
Must Have:
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, communications, or similar
- 10+ years of experience in account management or equivalent experience.
- Solid experience managing strategy and campaign creative development.
- Solid experience working with creative and project management teams to produce campaign assets (video, social, display, etc.).
- Solid experience working with media teams to develop and execute digital media plans.
- Excellent written and oral communication
- Excellent presentation
- Strong ability to author presentation
- Strong leadership and mentorship
Nice to Have:
- Financial services category experience.
- Proficient at problem-solving and at brainstorming solutions.
- Flexibility in adapting to new tasks and shifting priorities.
- Experience with multiple marketing
- Experience in performance marketing.
- Be the inspirational brand leader to account and cross-functional teams.
- Ability to provide strategic stewardship to all assigned accounts.
Who you will be collaborating with: You’ll be teaming up with a diverse, enthusiastic, multi-disciplinary team of professionals with a smart sense of humor and a strong desire to grow and develop. Our simple recipe for success? We hire talented people (thinkers, doers, dreamers, makers), challenge them and give them every opportunity to gain experience and grow.
Quigley-Simpson Values:
- GRATITUDE | We appreciate and support our people. We acknowledge accomplishments and appreciate people’s time and effort.
- RESPECT | Our communication style is rooted in respect. All voices are welcomed.
- OPPORTUNITY | We create opportunity for growth and advancement through activities and plans that inspire, educate, train and empower.
- WELLNESS | The well-being of our team is vital for individual growth and the strength of the company.
- TRANSPARENCY | The path for growth and development is clear. We know where we are headed together, and on our own path.
- HONESTY | We are honest and compassionate with our feedback and goals.