2RM Manager, Channel Marketing

Des Moines, IA (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own project coordination and client management in a marketing services context, driving campaigns from kickoff to delivery while safeguarding scope, timelines, and budgets.

  • Manage cross-functional programs and client communications to ensure on-time, on-budget project outcomes.
  • Track progress, surface risks early, and coordinate resources with internal teams and external vendors.
  • Leverage industry and client insights to support strategy brainstorms and onboarding materials.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Assists with dealer network requests using a customer-service oriented mindset.
  • Manages dealer network relationships via phone, video, and email while anticipating needs.
  • Maintains knowledge of client industry, consumer profiles, organizational structure, and competitors.
  • Supports weekly client-facing status meetings and maintains successful relationships.
  • Ensures accurate collection of client assets and successful execution of projects on-quality, on-time, and on-budget.
  • Facilitates projects from estimation through launch and proactively updates work-back schedules.
  • Ensures deliverables undergo internal approval and proofreading before client presentation.
  • Manages project financials, including vendor quotes and POs; monitors project budgets daily and informs parties of changes to scope or issues.
  • Assists with research for new accounts, proofreads proposals, and prepares onboarding materials.
  • Participates in strategy brainstorms, research, and creative kickoffs.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of account or project management experience
  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing or similar field
  • Marketing agency experience
  • Demonstrated knowledge of one or more agency capabilities/offerings
  • Experience drafting client project proposals and SOWs
  • Experience with researching requirements for project goals and benchmarking
  • Experience in successfully managing clients through complex projects
  • Experience in project financial management and analysis
  • Demonstrated ability to provide tactical solutions to client business objectives
  • Experience developing work breakdown structures, creating timelines and driving successful execution of milestones, on-quality, on-budget and on-schedule

Preferred

  • Experience with Monday.com, Box.com, Workamajig, Workbook, Advantage, NetSuite OpenAir, Clients+ Profits or other integrated operations tools a plus

Benefits

  • The commitment to work/life balance is like none other.
  • As an employee-owned agency, we put our associates first.
  • You won’t feel owned by your job. Like we always say, you won’t live here. You’ll thrive here.
  • Our values drive how we work and who we hire.
  • You will see these values ingrained in how we support our customers and work with team members in the work environment we’ve created.
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VGM Group, Inc

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Founded in 1986
Waterloo, Iowa, USA
930 employees (41 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
22.2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$16.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
13.4%
Direct
46.6%
Referral
6.9%
Social
32.9%
Paid
0.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~933

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
37 (4% of company)