Director, Client Advice & Management

New York City, NY (On-site)

$130K/yr – $150K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 10 days ago

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Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Day to day driver and quality manager of the Client Advice and Management team
  • Manages all communications in a timely manner, with no request going unnoticed.
  • Contribute to and author client proposals, recommendations and points of view; leads, issues, and conducts weekly client meeting
  • Build relationships with day to day leads on the client side, as well as with clients’ partner agencies
  • Ensures communication of creative needs and coordinates with partner agency teams on timely delivery of assets for campaigns
  • Responsible for ensuring all client financial stewardship, reporting, budget management, authorization and billing needs are met in a timely an accurate fashion
  • Participate in all client briefings, and articulate client needs and objectives to the integrated Strategy, Communications Design and Partnership leads
  • Apply a client lens to all areas of Initiative product, ensuring solutions developed are business-appropriate and meet agreed-upon KPIs
  • Develop your client advice team through performance management and giving consistent feedback
  • Actively drive and support the efforts of leadership and the integrated client team, including SBUs, to deliver brilliant work, best in class, integrated solutions, and flawless execution, contributing to positive client satisfaction scores

Requirements

  • Experience in Marketing, Advertising or Media
  • Experience leading, managing and developing a staff
  • Proven ability to develop and maintain strong professional relationships with clients, colleagues and vendors
  • Ability to drive projects from conception to completion; strong project management experience
  • Background in consulting, marketing, advertising or integrated communication

Preferred

  • 7+ years’ relevant experience with 4+ years’ management experience
  • Strong leader, presenter and packager of opportunities
  • Strong commercial acumen
  • Prior experience working on a pharmceutical brand
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Initiative

Initiative unlocks business growth for the world’s most ambitious brands. We believe in the power of media to reshape our industry and orchestrate a brand’s entire consumer experience, by balancing both what unites people and what makes them different. When brands unite people in culture, they build Fame, and when brands connect individuals to their unique journeys, they build customer Flow. Initiative builds Fame & Flow for brands like Nike, Volvo, Amazon, Constellation Brands, Merck, Anthropic, Paramount, and T-Mobile.Media responsibility is at the forefront of everything we do, whether it’s creating media plans that reflect the diversity of our communities, promote brand safety, and foster sustainability. Our agency celebrates diversity in an inclusive environment where all of our 10,000+ strong talent across 90+ markets feel seen, heard, and valued. Our vision is to create not only a better media company, but also a better media industry, and maybe even a better world.

Founded in 1975
New York, New York, USA
3.2K employees (1,113 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
34.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
42.6%
Direct
41.4%
Referral
10%
Social
4.5%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~3.2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
897 (28% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
3.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
9

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