Senior Vice President

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$180K/yr – $256K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Summary

Own and lead client strategy and media planning with cross-functional collaboration, shaping the future direction of client business, guiding insights, and driving high-quality deliverables and leadership across client teams.

  • Own strategy development, client leadership, and cross-market media planning
  • Lead client communications, presentations, and relationship management
  • Collaborate with analytics and investment teams to derive consumer insights and drive strategy

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for developing, implementing, and executing strategy to define the future direction of Client business
  • Actively listen to Clients and continually identify opportunities to lead thinking
  • Team leader for Client interaction fostering positive relationships
  • Identifies key target insights based on Client brief necessary for formulating communication strategy
  • Evaluates composition of a wide range of media vehicles to determine which would most effectively reach the target audience
  • Effectively communicates and solicits agreement of best opportunities for Client
  • Ensure the quality of work for all Client deliverables
  • Serves as key resource for local markets in defining media strategy and media plans
  • Supervising, training, and developing staff (managing workload, delegating, and managing projects and resources, performance management)
  • Develop process improvements and best practices to ensure consistency, flexibility, and efficiency resulting in solutions that meet or exceed Client expectations

Requirements

  • 10+ years of relevant experience with progressive levels of responsibility and business acumen in marketing and communications and team management
  • Must have online and offline media experience.
  • Offline experience will be TV, Print, Radio, OOH.
  • Online experience will consist of Display, Search, Social, and Mobile, and Content Marketing.
  • Fluency with Media Tools and solid understanding of Digital Planning tools
  • Proven experience and success in presenting plans to Client and influencing top level Client decisions
  • Demonstrated critical thinking skill and strong problem-solving skills – navigates effectively through difficult issues, builds required consensus to drive business needs and results
  • Excellent leadership, management and motivational skills
  • Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills – effectively presents formal POV internally and externally
  • Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and quantitative/analytical skills

Benefits

  • Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
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Spark Foundry

3.9 Glassdoor

As one of the fastest-growing global media agency networks, Spark Foundry is not beholden to legacy.We embrace nimbleness, agility and open-mindedness as part of our Startup Spirit. But as part of Publicis Media, we tap into a Powerhouse Soul, gaining access to first-mover opportunities alongside market-shaping clout, plus leading-edge AI and technology.Together, our Startup Spirit and Powerhouse Soul allow us to innovate and iterate faster than any other agency, bringing clients a distinct competitive advantage. Our innovative experiences have been recognized by Cannes Lions, Effies, Shortys and Webbys, all delivered by best-in-class talent across more than 70 global offices. Spark Foundry is part of the global Publicis Media agency network, a key division of Publicis Groupe [Euronext Paris FR0000130577, CAC 40].

Founded in 2016
New York, New York, USA
3.1K employees (807 in marketing)
78% recommend to a friend
81% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
14.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
41.9%
Direct
42.1%
Referral
8.8%
Social
5.4%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~3.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
759 (24% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
5.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
32

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