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Title: Account Supervisor
Location: New York, NY
Department/Discipline: Account
Overview:
The Account Supervisor oversees the tactical development and implementation of the brand, while contributing to its strategic direction. The Account Supervisor position moves beyond daily project management tasks and into strategic brand management. The Account Supervisor will also supervise, motivate and mentor more junior account team members.
Responsibilities:
- Understand the creative process and provide ideas for improving existing executions
- Ability to see the big picture, identify key issues, and provide proactive tactical and strategic recommendations
- Demonstrate mastery of brand category and competitive data, including key studies
- Seek non-traditional solutions to marketing/marketplace problems
- Internalized marketplace events, market research, etc., and develop and communicate strategic/tactical recommendations for the brand
- Oversee/manage the tactical plan development process, while contributing to tactical plan design:
- Communicate key client issues/initiatives to team
- Oversee creation of competitive review
- Generate key issues/objectives/strategies
- Supervise development of tactics/budget/timing
- Manage internal approval process
- Keep senior management briefed on account activities
- Foster a positive and productive team atmosphere and establish credibility both internally and externally
- Facilitate and maximize client relationships
- Maintain regular client contact at all levels and become integral part of client team, ensuring that the client is updated and briefed on all relevant account activity
- Ensure that all agency work represents the best we have to offer -- strategically sound, arresting creative, error-free
- Ensure that client is perceived positively within agency
- Understand the client’s perspective and challenges, and communicate these to the entire agency team
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the client's business and actively seek opportunities for further account development
- Foster client understanding of the agency’s needs and perspective
- Establish credibility with clients at all levels
- Communicate effectively and professionally both internally and externally
- Demonstrate good problem-solving and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrate ability to set priorities while handling multiple projects and to delegate work appropriately
- Remain calm despite high pressure situations
- Project a professional, positive attitude toward peers and clients within the department and the agency
- Embody service-oriented attitude and uphold quality standards in servicing the client
- Maintain accurate time sheets
- Foster a positive team atmosphere demonstrating respect for peers and supervisors
- Assist other members of department/team as needed when workload allows
- Foster senior level partnerships with creative/account colleague
- Understand when it’s appropriate to make decisions independently and when to escalate issues/decisions to manager
- Uphold the Company Values in all decisions and interactions
Experience:
- College Degree, preferably in marketing, advertising, communications or science/medicine
- 4 years Agency or comparable experience (HCP Agency marketing experience preferred)
- Excellent written and oral communication skills including ability to write basic documents(Creative Briefs)
- Maturity to handle senior-level Client contact
- Understanding of business principals
- Thorough knowledge of, and depth of experience with, marketing/advertising
- Ability to manage and train staff, including prioritization of creative hours
The range below represents the low and high end of the base salary someone in this role may earn as an employee of an Omnicom Health Group company in the United States. Salaries will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience, training, associated responsibilities, and other business and organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of our total compensation package for employees. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire.
Omnicom Health Group is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is equally distributed, and we’re focused on developing diverse teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you.
