Account Director, Portfolio

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$100K/yr – $125K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 days ago

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the team across a portfolio of Kraft Heinz brands, ensuring work is strategically aligned, operationally strong, and executed with excellence.
  • Serve as an account lead for the Portfolio team, building trusted relationships with brand teams and becoming a go-to partner across the business.
  • Drive integrated campaigns across the full consumer journey, from brand and channel planning through to retail and shopper execution.
  • Partner closely with Creative, Strategy, Production, Omni, and external agency partners to deliver connected work that supports both brand equity and business results.
  • Oversee the development and delivery of multiple workstreams, including campaigns, agile content, scaled activations, and campaign support.
  • Lead project and program management across the portfolio, ensuring teams are clear on objectives, timelines, deliverables, budgets, and ways of working.
  • Assist in managing business operations, including scoping, financial oversight, forecasting, and overall P&L accountability.
  • Lead and develop account talent, including direct reports, while building a high-performing team culture grounded in collaboration, accountability, and excellence.
  • Help define and evolve the operating model for the new Portfolio Pod, establishing strong processes and clear cross-functional ways of working.

Requirements

  • 5-7 years of account experience within a creative, advertising, or integrated agency environment.
  • Strong experience leading 360 campaigns across multiple channels and consumer touchpoints, including through-the-line work that extends into shopper marketing .
  • Proven ability to manage complex, cross-functional programs across creative, strategy, production, and client teams.
  • Experience overseeing large budgets, with strong commercial acumen across scoping, forecasting, financial management, and reconciliation.
  • Experience leading both small and large productions involving talent including concepting through campaign delivery and trafficking
  • Understanding of how brand, media, commerce, and shopper objectives connect, with the ability to help teams deliver work that performs across the full ecosystem is ideal
  • Strong understanding of the paid media landscape and how to deliver against a paid media buy
  • Excellent client leadership, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to build trust and influence senior stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated success leading and developing account teams in fast-paced, high-expectation environments.
  • Strong organizational judgment, problem-solving ability, and attention to detail.
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SALT XC

3.7 Glassdoor

A North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital & media innovation.

Founded in 2019
Toronto, Ontario, CAN
333 employees (153 in marketing)
60% recommend to a friend

Salaries

Posted range

$100K/yr – $125K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
80 (24% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
9

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
14.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
35.1%
Direct
43.7%
Referral
8%
Social
11.6%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~333
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Account Director, Portfolio

SALT XC · Chicago, IL · Hybrid