Account Specialist

Saint Paul, MN (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive direct mail campaigns and cross-channel integration as a mid-level Account Specialist, owning client relationships and campaign execution.

  • Must-have: 2–5 years in marketing, agency experience, or Direct Mail background
  • Standout: Ownership of day-to-day client contact and cross-functional collaboration with analytics and creative teams

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Assist in the development of annual direct mail budgets / forecasts on behalf of key clients to set expectations and secure an appropriate budget for the channel.
  • Help maintain a comprehensive Test Roadmap for each client outlining and prioritizing key test opportunities across list, offer, creative and digital variables.
  • Contribute to the design of monthly campaign matrices and be able to defend their strategic design, objectives, and role in the overall narrative of channel scale/optimization.
  • Serve as a key liaison between the Client and Franklin Madison Direct’s Data and Analytics department, effectively articulating list procurement, modeling, data processing and analytics capabilities and procedures.
  • Ingest matchback performance data, prepare client-facing dashboards, and assist in the delivery of presentations complete with digestible highlights, takeaways, and recommendations for future campaigns.
  • Build and co-present PowerPoint decks for kick-off calls, preliminary snapshot presentations, campaign analytics, business reviews, and various ad-hoc needs to professionally advance a client’s campaign, performance, understanding or satisfaction.
  • Provide creative guidance and serve as a value-added contributor to creative strategy and review.
  • Host and/or participate in various internal team meetings to keep all departments synced on client status, plans, open-items, to-dos, challenges, performance, etc.
  • Confidently and proactively communicate with clients regarding campaign execution;
  • Develop strong relationships and gradually emerge as the primary day-to-day campaign point of contact for assigned Clients.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Communications or related field, or equivalent experience
  • 2-5 year’s of experience in marketing, business development, or communications (preferably with experience in Agency setting successfully juggling the objectives of multiple clients and/or Direct Mail background)
  • Alignment with FMD’s Purpose & Values
  • Self-starter/Entrepreneurial Spirit with growth mindset
  • Persuasive, confident, effective communicator
  • Organized, prepared and intentional
  • Strong relationship builder
  • Highly accountable and reliable
  • Positive, upbeat and energetic attitude
  • Analytical thinker with a keen ability to problem solve
  • Skilled in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
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Franklin Madison Direct

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Franklin Madison Direct, formerly SeQuel Response, is a full service direct marketing agency that offers strategy, creative, data, proprietary testing, campaign execution, and analytic services for direct mail and digital marketing campaigns.Our main objective is to help our clients profitably grow their customer base through multiple acquisition channels including direct mail, paid search, paid social, and display advertising.Some of our accolades include:* 2019 - 100% Client Satisfaction Rating via our annual Client Survey* 2014 - 2019 Top 25 Ad Agencies in MN (#6)* 2014 - 2018 Inc 5000 - Fastest Growing Companies, National* 2014 - 2017 Fast 50 - Fastest Growing Companies in MN (#11)

Founded in 2010
Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA
36 employees (15 in marketing)
0% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
7.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$10.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
19.1%
Direct
62.4%
Referral
6.3%
Social
10.5%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~36

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
11 (31% of company)