Senior Account Executive

Milwaukee, WI (On-site)

$65K/yr – $80K/yrSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the client delivery engine from kickoff to runway, turning client challenges into BR solutions while policing budgets and governance.

  • Client ownership: lead SOP-driven execution and run recurring calls, demos, and agendas
  • Budget stewardship: monitor budgets, approve invoices, and shape yearly/quarterly plans
  • Strategic alignment: connect business needs to BR offerings and represent the agency at industry events

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead client interactions during project execution, leveraging SOPs
  • Manage creative approvals and client communications
  • Coordinate calls, demos and meetings; and prepare agendas
  • Monitor project budgets, approve invoices and manage allocations
  • Manage overall client budgets (yearly, quarterly and project-based)
  • Connect client business challenges with BR solutions
  • Represent the agency at client and industry events
  • Interact with client marketers, sales reps and end users
  • Assist account leads in setting team priorities and direction
  • Conduct competitive audits; and track messaging, positioning and spend

Requirements

  • A bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, business or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 4-7 years of relevant experience, ideally with agency or client-service background
  • Agriculture industry experience preferred — preferably livestock
  • Strong written, verbal and nonverbal communication skills
  • High organizational skills with strong time and budget management
  • Independence, proactiveness and collaboration
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Teams
  • Strong critical thinking and emotional intelligence
  • Travel: Expected to travel more than 10% for client needs

Preferred

  • Agriculture industry experience preferred — preferably livestock

Benefits

  • medical, dental and vision insurance with HSA and FSA options
  • disability and life/AD&D
  • accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity insurance
  • pet insurance
  • identity theft protection
  • unlimited virtual telemedicine and mental health counseling
  • 401(k) including company matching
  • flexible paid time off
  • paid holidays
  • paid parental leave
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Bader Rutter

Ever notice how B2B agencies do demand and B2C shops do brand? At Bader Rutter, we do both, because brand and demand shouldn’t be either/or.Driving sales is critical but at any time, 95% of your audience isn't actively in the market. So we build brand into all of our demand driving work. So you're remembered during that critical 5% when your audience does want to buy.Just like sales and marketing, when brand and demand work together, they create a marketing multiplier. And those kinds of results made us the #1 U.S. B2B agency three of the last five years. Headquartered in Milwaukee with a Chicago office and employees working across 19 states, we’re a full-service agency that dreams big and plans meticulously. Our heritage lies in agriculture; but over time, we’ve navigated that world’s complexities, audiences and channels so well, we’ve grown. Today, we focus on adjacent categories like pet care and food and beverage, but our client partners span everything from insurance to the Milwaukee Bucks.Bader Rutter is part of BBN, the world’s largest B2B agency collective, uniting 1,250 specialists across 68 countries. Learn more here: https://bbn-international.com/.

Founded in 1973
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
240 employees (104 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
6.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
29.6%
Direct
54%
Referral
6.1%
Social
9%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~240

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
66 (28% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

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