Senior Account Manager

Boston, MA (Hybrid)

$85K/yr – $100K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive strategic account leadership for a global client portfolio and grow revenue across GPJ services.

  • Own strategic direction, cross-functional delivery, and revenue growth for key accounts.
  • Must-have: 5–7 years of transferrable industry or agency experience with client management.
  • Standout: Proven ability to manage large, matrixed global accounts and win new business.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic account leadership across a diverse and complex portfolio of business, ensuring the overall success and profitability of key programs such as activations and global client centers.
  • Identify and cultivate growth opportunities, while maintaining a strong, strategic focus on both client satisfaction and business outcomes.
  • Build and nurture strong relationships with senior-level clients, acting as a strategic advisor, offering insights to align client needs with agency capabilities.
  • Define and drive the direction and objectives of the scopes you manage; build deep expertise in the client’s business, brand, and solution offerings.
  • Translate clients’ strategic needs and goals into a full range of GPJ-owned services, fostering growth and ongoing successful outcomes.
  • Lead cross-functional GPJ teams, providing clear direction, aligning objectives, and driving collaboration.
  • Take ownership of revenue forecasting, margin tracking and ensuring accuracy and compliance across all financial tools.
  • Drive account growth by identifying and pursuing new business opportunities, sizing, scoping, assembling appropriate agency teams, and leading pursuit efforts to win new business for GPJ.
  • Oversee Client Relations, Business Development, Project Launch, Management, Delivery & Deployment, and Invoicing, Financial Reconciliation & Closing.

Requirements

  • 5-7 years of transferrable industry/agency/business experience.
  • 2(+) years of client management experience desired
  • 4 Year College Degree; preferred in Marketing/Advertising/Communications/Business Administration/Liberal Arts
  • Your Skills and Competencies: Strategic Leadership, Client Relationship Management, New Business Development, Relationship Building, Operating Globally
  • Demonstrated success in working with large, matrixed organizations and managing highly complex accounts (as part of Experience with Global Brands)
  • Ability to translate client needs and goals into a full range of GPJ-owned services (as described in Your Role)

Preferred

  • Experience with Global Brands : Demonstrated success in working with large, matrixed organizations and managing highly complex accounts is strongly desired.
  • Strategic Leadership : Proven ability to create and contribute to the strategic direction for accounts and programs.
  • Client Relationship Management : Comfortable leading strategic meetings, presenting findings and recommendations to clients, and acting as the primary point of contact for senior-level client executives.
  • New Business Development : Skilled at identifying and pursuing new opportunities, leveraging internal resources and cross-functional teams to drive both organic growth and net-new business wins.
  • Relationship Building : Ability to engage confidently with senior-level client-side marketing executives, building trusted, respected relationships.
  • Operating Globally: Ideally have a proven ability to operate seamlessly across a globally networked account and agency; engaging and working with globally dispersed clients and agency project teams.

Benefits

  • Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – providing our employees with an ownership interest.
  • employer matching 401(k) plan (no vesting period)
  • low employee contribution healthcare option
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George P Johnson Experience Marketing

GPJ is the world's leading strategic experience marketing agency. We create great ideas and bring them to life through integrated experiential programs that leverage digital, mobile and physical brand activations. Our worldwide office network enables leading brands to create and accelerate relationships with customers, employees, partners, media and other influencers. GPJ is part of Project Worldwide, A Creative Alliance for the Ambitious.TM (www.project.com).

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Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA
1.7K employees (519 in marketing)

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