Account Executive - Experiential Marketing

Cincinnati, OH (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid LevelFull time

Posted 2 days ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end experiential programs, serving as the primary client lead and cross-functional orchestrator from intake through delivery, with a focus on relationship building, program management, and continuous improvement.

  • Own end-to-end program delivery and client leadership
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams and ensure on-time, on-budget delivery
  • Identify growth opportunities and expand engagement

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Client Leadership: Act as the main point of contact, building deep relationships with client teams across various initiatives. Proactively understand clients' pain points, business objectives, and marketing goals.
  • Program Management: Act as the primary client lead, overseeing project intake, defining program scope, establishing the execution path, and serving as the central point of contact for all strategic and operational communications.
  • End-to-End Program Delivery: Own the full lifecycle of program execution, coordinating cross-functional teams, managing information flow, supplier coordination, and ensuring seamless delivery from initial requirements through final closeout. For experiential programs, this includes managing timelines for production, fabrication, and event logistics.
  • Structured Communication & Meeting Management: Schedule and facilitate routine client status meetings and internal weekly program reviews, ensuring all stakeholders remain aligned and informed.
  • Operational Tracking & Reporting: Build and maintain shared program trackers for clients and internal teams and deliver weekly program updates.
  • Relationship Management: Cultivate strong, trust-based relationships with clients, vendors (including event production and fabrication partners), and internal partners through proactive communication, consistent follow-through, and a commitment to flawless execution.
  • Account Growth: Identify opportunities to expand client engagement, introduce new capabilities, and pitch strategic solutions (such as innovative experiential concepts) that address evolving client needs and drive account growth.
  • Financial Ownership: Manage complex and dynamic budgets. Own and review all cost components on a consistent basis to ensure financial accuracy and cost competitiveness. Manage program volume forecasting and retainer oversight for assigned clients, ensuring financial accuracy, transparency, and alignment with program activity.
  • Performance & Quality Assurance: Ensure all programs meet established performance metrics, including on-time delivery, budget adherence, and high audit scores, while continuously optimizing processes for efficiency and quality.
  • Team Development: Mentor junior team members by providing coaching, guidance, and support to elevate team performance and foster professional growth.

Requirements

  • The Account Executive position is a strategic partner for our clients, responsible for successfully delivering marketing campaigns and projects. This includes supporting a variety of consumer activation initiatives, with a preferred focus on experiential campaigns, and live events. Account Executives are highly organized and have a passion for building relationships. You will serve as the primary liaison, ensuring seamless execution by collaborating closely with clients and engaging internal and external supplier contacts.

Preferred

  • Preferred, but not required: bachelor's in business or communication (emphasis in marketing or management); or Minimum 2 years of applicable business or promotion management experience.
  • Experiential marketing, event production, event planning, or purchasing experience preferred, but not required.
  • Familiarity with event-specific logistics (e.g., vendor sourcing, asset fabrication, permitting, on-site execution) is a plus.
  • Exceptional client communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to lead conversations, uncover business needs, and influence decision-making across multiple client teams and stakeholders.
  • Marketing or project management experience preferred, including scoping, timeline development, risk assessment, and coordinating cross-functional teams through complex, multi-workstream initiatives.
  • Leadership and collaboration skills, including mentoring junior team members, partnering with specialized internal teams, and contributing to continuous process improvement.
  • Demonstrate desire for continuous learning, improvement and growing your business.

Benefits

  • Generous Time Off
  • Robust Health and Wellness Plan
  • Family Support
  • Mentorship Program
  • 401K Match
  • Role Autonomy
  • Certification Reimbursement and Ongoing Training
  • Enrichment Events and Employee Resource Groups
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PEP’s purpose – to make it possible for everyone to look and feel good – still stands today, as we celebrate more than 60 years of making a difference. We’ve evolved over the years, with more ways to shop, like e-commerce, and more ways to pay, like FoneYam, but some things never change, and that is to continuously make it easy for our remarkable customers to access products and services, always at the lowest prices. It goes without saying that we LOVE to be part of every small town and every big city!That’s why we now have more than 2700 stores, making us the largest, single-brand retailer in Southern Africa. Easy access to our stores makes it a breeze for customers to pop in for a friendly smile and those amazing #PEPfinds! As well as clothing and footwear, we have a wide range of homeware, FMCG, cellular products and financial services, including cashbacks, loans, funeral cover, cross-border/local money transfers, bill payments, Flash tokens, PAXI courier service, and so much more.PEP is a business for people, and we love growing together as a business but also as Dynamos (employees). With over 24,000 Dynamos delighting our remarkable customers, we keep stepping forward, whilst never forgetting to make it possible for everyone to look and feel good. Today, we’re proud to have one of the strongest corporate cultures in the world, which we call “Sikhula KunYe (we are growing together). For more than 60 years and beyond, we will continue to evolve and make a difference in our remarkable customers’ lives... every single day... and we love every moment of doing it!

Founded in 1965
Parow, Western Cape, ZAF
20K employees
1% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$70
Traffic Source Mix
Search
59.6%
Direct
25.1%
Referral
2%
Social
4.5%
Paid
7.5%

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Current headcount: ~20.2K

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