Vice President Account Director, Business Leadership at Momentum Worldwide | New York City, NY | $165K/yr – $180K/yr

Momentum Worldwide

Vice President Account Director, Business Leadership

New York City, NY (On-site)

$165K/yr – $180K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own growth and profitability for a marquee retail client portfolio, leading strategy, activation, and ROI across multiple channels, while building teams, guiding internal agencies, and expanding business with senior client partners.

Lead strategy development, property negotiation/management, and activation across top retail accounts to drive ROI and revenue targets.
Build and maintain client relationships, troubleshoot conflicts, manage staffing and budgets to profitably support business.
Lead cross-discipline teams, mentor staff, contribute to new business, and deliver compelling client presentations while upholding Momentum values.

Job Description

Responsibilities - Responsible for growth and profitability of top-tier retail account and attaining annual revenue and contribution margin targets. - Provide category and channel expertise and leadership in guiding internal teams across the agency to meet client goals, ensuring that brand strategy and objectives are met - Provide expert direction and oversight across strategy development, property negotiation/management, and marketing activation development/execution, ROI methodology - Integral member of brand team within the agency, developing and managing client business while leading strategy development for assigned account(s) - Foster strong relationships across the client marketing team and proactively troubleshoot conflicts with clients - Along with budget development and management, develop staffing plans to profitably support the business - Lead Business Leadership and cross discipline agency teams in developing and delivering exceptional programs, flawlessly executed while meeting client needs - Actively contributing to new business efforts, working in conjunction with senior management and external agency partners - Develop and delivers compelling client/new business presentations - Proactively work to grow client business across the agency’s core disciplines - Leadership, mentorship and development of all direct reports. Fostering an environment of mutual respect and partnership, strategic thinking, appropriate risk taking, open lines of communication, on-going performance feedback, professional development and adherence to agency policy. - Supporting Momentum’s Values - All other duties as assigned Requirements - Bachelor’s Degree - preferably in Marketing, preferred - 12+ years agency Account Management experience marketing - Retail, shopper, and commerce experience greatly valued - Willing and interested in travel - Self-motivated and able to problem solve in a live, onsite event environment. - Experienced in strategic thinking and ability to see, articulate and drive to the big picture - Passion and solution-oriented approach to problem-solving - Exceptional verbal & written communication skills and adept at communicating effectively across all levels - Well-versed in business development, strategic thought leadership and creative development skills. - Ability to perform well in fast-changing environments. - Exceptional client management skills - Demonstrated success in leading multi-disciplinary teams in delivering exceptional work within budget parameters Nice to have Benefits

Momentum Worldwide

People are no longer satisfied with simply "hearing" a brand's message. Now it's the actual experiences we have with a brand that define its relevance—emotionally, socially and when it's time to buy. That's why Momentum Worldwide helps brands imagine, create, curate and manage their Total Brand Experience. Our job is to create meaning and connections for our clients and their brands.And in today’s world, where people demand corporate transparency and increased sustainability, this approach-redefining all the ways people experience a brand in action-is more important than ever. We integrate sponsorship, shopper, design, technology, social, promotions, PR, digital, entertainment and more in a total brand experience for the modern consumer. Quite simply, our job is to help brands flourish – and we do this as one global agency (within the IPG family of agencies) with 30 offices on five continents and more than 1,300 amazingly talented people—all of us working together, eager to invent, challenge the norm and set the world on fire. To make that possible, we hire people who are ravenous for ingenuity and impatient with the status quo. The biggest asset we have is our talent, and we take that seriously. And it helps that our company works with some incredible brands such as American Express, Coca-Cola, Mondelez, Microsoft, Walmart and William Grant & Sons to name a few.Join us! You could be a member of a growing team of people who love to imagine, concept, create, sculpt, sing, emote and dream in the interests of our clients and communities. We think it’s a special kind of calling. You should answer.

Founded in 1987

New York, New York, USA

1.3K employees (441 in marketing)

www.momentumww.com