Account Manager

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$45K/yr – $90K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

primary contact for client operations and strategy across the account, owning timelines, budgets, and relationship health.

  • Client ownership: Own day-to-day operations, communications, and deliverable coordination across the account lifecycle.
  • Strategy and relationships: Maintain strategic read on client business, industry and competition; escalate issues to keep health strong.
  • Meetings and finance: Lead client presentations, invoicing support, and revenue forecasting to protect profitability.

Job Description

primary contact for client operations and strategy across the account, owning timelines, budgets, and relationship health.

  • Responsibilities: Runs day-to-day client operations, including all communication and account administration.
  • Client ownership: Is the key client contact on matters ranging from approach, strategy, timing, deliverables, issues, budgets, and new opportunities with support from client lead.
  • Proactive communication: Writes timely emails, picks up the phone, is proactive about in-person meetings, assists with presentations, sends reports and agendas, etc.
  • Timeline management: Managing project timelines and communicating deadlines and deliverables, working up and down within the team to ensure expectations are met.
  • Strategic awareness: Demonstrates strategic thinking by keeping abreast of client’s business, industry, audience and competitive environment to build a comprehensive understanding of the inputs that affect their business; keeps the internal team apprised of new developments
  • Health signals: Demonstrates problem-solving skills when dealing with client requests and issues; escalates as necessary and creates transparency around health of the relationship
  • Client-facing leadership: Leads presentations with clients, whether on concepts, a content strategy, a budget, etc.
  • Financial operations: Supports SJR client lead with invoicing and payment collection, drafts MSAs and compliance with SOWs; maintains revenue forecasts, budgeting, vendor setup and budget management and reconciliation
  • Cross-team alignment: Establish good relationships and communications across the agency and with partners
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Group SJR

SJR was founded with a simple objective in mind: to connect brands and companies with the right audience, keep it and develop it. By tapping into the limitless power of storytelling, we authentically build brands, explain complex issues and, most importantly, awaken audiences’ desire for wonder, wisdom and delight. Our client work and agency approach has earned us numerous accolades including Best Branded Editorial Experience by Webby Awards, Agency of the Year by Content Marketing Awards, and Most Innovative Culture by Digiday. SJR is a WPP company.

Founded in 2004
New York, New York, USA
240 employees (91 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
6.4K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$115
Traffic Source Mix
Search
35.3%
Direct
46%
Referral
6.5%
Social
10.9%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~230

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
55 (23% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3