Senior Account Director

Los Angeles, CA (Hybrid)

$150K/yr – $170K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 6 days ago

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Job Summary

Owns overall client success and account profitability across large projects, steers budgets and timelines, nurtures senior client and vendor relationships, defines account direction, and drives revenue opportunities while coordinating cross-functional teams.

  • Own program direction and objectives
  • Maintain margins and budget accuracy
  • Develop trusted senior client relationships

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • You are responsible for ensuring the overall success of our clients and the profitability of their accounts, particularly on larger projects.
  • You oversee the margin levels within your assigned portfolio, which includes adapting to any service changes that may arise.
  • Your role also involves making sure that we meet all timelines and budget requirements for every aspect of the account.
  • Maintaining a strategic responsibility for nurturing the relationships between our clients and our agency is a key part of your job.
  • You actively work to build trust and engagement with senior-level clients and vendors.
  • You are accountable for creating and developing the direction and objectives for the accounts you oversee, and you have become a subject matter expert on our client's brand, business, and industry.
  • You support program direction, objectives, and plans.
  • You possess proficiency in our tools (CRM, Deltek, etc) as well as thorough understanding of our processes.
  • You provide a high level of client service and satisfaction, all while ensuring that you consistently and efficiently deploy GPJ methodologies.
  • You are continuously pursuing and generating new revenue opportunities as a regular part of your activities.

Requirements

  • May have one or more direct reports
  • Able to independently create and develop account/program strategic direction and objectives; proactively engage with and enable/inspire the team to add innovative strategic and creative contributions.
  • Lead internal strategic meetings and present findings to client
  • Able to help identify, lead and close new opportunities, strategically leveraging internal resources and teams (for organic and net new opportunities)
  • Experience and confidence engaging and building respected, trusted peer-to-peer relationships with mid to senior level client side marketing executives
  • Fully capable of building decks and presentations which tell a story in the language that the client will understand
  • Possess executive presence - be able to read and 'command' a room
  • Understands how to effectively oversee overall, increasingly complex project timelines in line with strategic objectives
  • Understand effective budget oversight and troubleshooting for larger, more complex budgets, leveraging SMEs as needed
  • Ensures team proactively addresses key project financial metrics, including profitability and margin

Preferred

  • Experience working with Fortune 500 brands strongly desired
  • MBA or Executive MBA degree is a plus
  • Actively helps mentor / teach others on Account team; may help manage onsite resources
  • Previous experience with ERP, Project Management software, or similar tool is preferred

Benefits

  • Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – providing our employees with an ownership interest.
  • employer matching 401(k) plan (no vesting period)
  • low contribution healthcare option
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George P. Johnson Experience Marketing

GPJ is the world's leading strategic experience marketing agency. We create great ideas and bring them to life through integrated experiential programs that leverage digital, mobile and physical brand activations. Our worldwide office network enables leading brands to create and accelerate relationships with customers, employees, partners, media and other influencers. GPJ is part of Project Worldwide, A Creative Alliance for the Ambitious.TM (www.project.com).

Founded in 1914
Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA
1.7K employees (519 in marketing)

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