Group Director, Experience Strategy
EVERSANA INTOUCH
New York City, NY (Remote)
$143K/yr - $206K/yrAgencyFull-timeSenior level10+ years exp.
6 hrs ago
Head of Experiential
Phoenix, AZ (Remote)
£50K/yr – £60K/yrSenior LevelTemporary
Posted 6 months ago
Job Summary
Drive end-to-end experiential programmes for Wave as a senior account lead, owning client relationships, strategy, and revenue growth.
- Own end-to-end campaigns and client relationships
- Must-have: Senior account management experience in experiential or DTC
- Standout: High-visibility role with leadership trajectory and commercial accountability
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Lead Wave’s experiential client relationships, own programmes end‑to‑end, and help shape the future of our experiential proposition.
- Manage a portfolio of Wave clients, take full ownership of programme performance, and play a central role in client strategy, commercial growth, and new business development.
- Work closely with the Wave leadership team, this role offers high visibility, influence, and progression for someone ready to operate with a Head‑of mindset.
- Manage and deliver a variety of campaigns from start to finish, bring innovative ideas to the table, planning, implementing and budgeting for each individual project.
- Confidently and expertly own the senior client relationships, and the planning and delivery of all experiential programmes.
- Be accountable for the revenue targets across your client portfolio - ensuring programmes are profitable, scalable and commercially sustainable.
- Work with insights and reporting, lead planning and reporting cycles.
- Evolve the experiential proposition and act as a visible senior figure for Wave.
- Presenting comes naturally to you and you will thrive in a highly unpredictable and fast-moving environment where no 2 days are the same.
- You will be heavily involved in the commercials so you will really know your stuff when it comes to budgets and working with numbers!
Requirements
- Account Management experience ideally already at a senior level within the Experiential / Direct to Consumer market
- Strong ability to visualise an opportunity from start to finish and can bring this to life for clients
- Experience of owning client relationships and experiential programmes end to end
- Leadership/influencing experience
- Agency experience within a field marketing/tactical environment
- Works well with change and working at pace - we work ridiculously fast!
- An outstanding communicator with fantastic time management as you will be continually multi-tasking, having to re-prioritise your days
- You ooze creativity and can really think on your feet
- Confident and a natural presenter - you will be highly experienced leading commercial and new business conversations
- Ready for stretch responsibility, operating with a Head-of mindset
Benefits
- private health care
- life assurance
- annual leave purchase
- 25 days holiday (plus flexible public)
- annual leave purchase
- flexible public holidays
- enhanced maternity/paternity pay
- enhanced sick pay
- smart working policy
- open to discussing part time working arrangements
Wave
Serving and building a better community in many neighborhoods across Kentucky and Southern Indiana marks the seven decades of WAVE in the Louisville market. Kentucky’s first TV station is also the first station in Louisville to broadcast in color and broadcast local news in HD. From award-winning journalism to breakthrough investigations, WAVE 3 News stories make you laugh, cry, learn something new, feel safe, and take-action. Our unique content is delivered on many platforms, and our Derby City Weekend app gives you a look at the finest the area offers in arts, music, theater, culinary excellence, and the famous bourbon trail. WAVE was the first station in the country to present a live telecast of the Kentucky Derby, and the breath of coverage for the event now includes an Inside the Rail app. The WAVE 3 News Abbey Road on the River, Kentucky Derby Festival, Forecastle Festival, and Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre, are some of the signature events in a community that enjoys big events and is home to the Muhammad Ali Center, Louisville Slugger Museum, and Churchill Downs. WAVE 3 News has helped raise hundreds of millions of dollars to uplift the community and through the years has been home to both the University of Kentucky and University of Louisville sports.
Salaries
Posted range
£50K/yr – £60K/yr
Taken straight from the job posting.
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