Senior Account Supervisor, Brand

Responsibilities:

• Play a major role in driving the research, planning, development and execution of comprehensive integrated communications campaigns and marketing events. 
• Build trusted client relationships, rooted in open dialogue, mutual understanding and respect; serve as client lead, providing daily strategic counsel and ensuring quality execution that aligns with each client’s business goals. 
• Develop and deliver integrated communications strategies across PR, digital/social, influencer, creative, with knowledge of traditional advertising mediums, such as TV, print, brochures, OOH, etc. 
• Serve as the brand steward with internal stakeholders, ensuring program execution is on brand. 
• Make sure the team's work is earned worthy at the core, with a focus on landing headline leading earned coverage. 
• Oversee quality and operational performance of accounts, ensuring work quality and deadline adherence, including overseeing junior staff’s work products to ensure quality and consistency. 
• Participate in cross-practice and cross-geographical teams to provide clients and prospects with the most compelling team and proposal. 
• Manage your team's performance as it relates to client service and quality control, recommending appropriate tactics to clients and internal team leads on project implementation. 
• Effectively communicate and present recommendations and POVs to gain internal and client alignment. 
• Experience in an inter-agency team (IAT) environment – creative, digital, paid media, in-store etc. – and be able to lead and adapt creative solutions to fit those channels in collaboration with team and agency partners. 
• Understand the value of earned programming and how “PR” has evolved and translates into today's complex media environment. 
• Demonstrate the ability to evolve brands, promote them, garner attention, and drive consumer action. 
• Experience generating both quick-turn creative solutions as well as longer term programming, demonstrating agility and flexibility in your approach. 
• Demonstrate proficiency in writing skills across internal and client correspondence, communications plans, client presentations and press materials. 
• Partnership with measurement and analytics team to set client program goals and manage execution against them. 
• Proven leadership skills with the ability to grow a team by way of motivating, coaching, consistently providing feedback, and most importantly, leading by example. 
• Experience managing up, down, and around while working with partners (internal & external), maximizing events and collaborations, as well as providing ongoing strategic client counsel. 
• Show financial acumen and the ability to lead a profitable business and manage client budgets effectively. 
• Demonstrate strong time management skills and ability to support a team in prioritizing deliverables. 

Basic Qualifications:

• At least 6 years of relevant experience in Communications and/or related fields.
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience managing clients, including serving as day-to-day client contact, counseling clients on strategy, and pushing back when needed. 
• Demonstrated ability managing experiential campaigns or live events from concept to completion, including strategy, creative, and production. 
• A comprehensive understanding of your clients’ businesses and their missions, as well as their key stakeholders (consumers, employees, investors, regulators, media, vendors, partners, and other businesses/organizations, etc.) and ability to impart this knowledge to account team members. 
• Proven ability to manage large projects on one or more sizable accounts. 
• Experience managing teams, with the ability to delegate tactical assignments and accurately judge and edit the work of others. 
• Understand how to work with Project Management as a fundamental partner to execute integrated campaign plans. 
• Ability to oversee budgets and staffing plans. 
• Proven level of comfortability with tight timelines. 
• Familiarity with best-practice communications tactics and public relations tools. 
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Regular travel is expected to support client engagement, business development, and strategic initiatives.