Account Executive

Responsibilities

• Act as day-to-day contact for key client team members, internal teams, and agency partners
• Participate in client planning and develop strategies that bring client objectives to life
• Interpret critical insights and research that will drive agency creative efforts
• Craft the creative briefs and reporting that communicate client objectives and directions to internal team members
• Interact with Project Manager(s) and other key internal/external players to develop and maintain timelines and budgets
• Participate in client presentations and client POVs
• Mobilize and motivate internal and external teams to bring client objectives to life while ensuring collaboration, communication, trust, efficiency and quality of the work
• Manage client budgets
• Identify potential project risks and develop contingency plans
• Measurement and insights

Qualifications

• Integrated brand marketing experience
• At least 2 years of client facing / account management experience in an agency environment, ideally within the business-to-consumer service industry space
• Exceptional management, communication and diplomacy skills
• To have a dedicated work ethic and display a thorough attention to detail
• To have demonstrated ability to manage multiple assignments and to deliver projects on schedule, on brand, and on budget
• To work proactively and autonomously in critical situations
• Computer proficiency including Microsoft suite of products

Benefits

• Chicago: $60,000 - $65,000
• Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager.
• Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.
• Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do.

Schedule

• Chicago: Minimum of three days a week in the office, with the goal of increasing to five days over time.

Pay

• Chicago: $60,000 - $65,000