Associate Account Director

About the role

VML is seeking an Associate Account Director to service clients from an iconic brand in the Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) industry. This role oversees large-scale integrated brand campaigns, acts as the primary point of contact for clients, leads presentations, and represents well-managed projects, timely production, and adherence to budgets.

• Client

  • Oversee day-to-day agency performance and client relationship.
  • Be proactive in assessing client needs and demands, delivering added value to the client wherever possible.
  • Become a subject matter expert in the QSR industry, speaking clearly to the competitive landscape, products, services, trends, and digital positions within the client’s business.
  • Provide clear instruction as to the goals and objectives through any campaign or creative endeavor with specific guidance and performance measures.

• Team

  • Serve as agency champion to pull integrated activities together for moving the client’s business through production to launch.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Project Management, Creative, Strategy, Connections, Marketing Effectiveness, and other Account team members.
  • Develop and grow client relationships across key stakeholders.
  • Generate and review project briefs to inspire and guide creative development.
  • Assess and recommend tactics and strategies for building efficiencies, streamlining operations, and enhancing the value of agency to the client.
  • Lead a collaborative effort to create unified services, client presentations, media campaigns, marketing materials, and value to the client.
  • Mentor

• You are

  • A builder
  • Entrepreneurial attitude coupled with a strong business acumen.
  • Innate ability to marshal people and create gravity around ideas.
  • Open and collaborative.
  • Optimistic and resilient.
  • Ego-less.

• What you’ll need

  • 7+ years account management experience, with a minimum of 2 years as a manager of direct reports.
  • Experience as the lead over a client brand or equivalent.
  • Leading brand work across a client within QSR or other regulated industry preferred.
  • Strong experience in digital marketing across integrated campaigns—media, paid search, social, display, programmatic, SEO, content, UX, etc.
  • Ability to lead and communicate effectively with cross-functional teams.
  • Self-confident, flexible, yet takes and defends positions.
  • Ability to present ideas and strategies to senior-level clients.

What we offer

• Passionate, driven people
• Consciously cultivated culture
• Competitive benefits
• Growth-minded opportunities

Base salary range

$45,000—$100,000 USD

Application

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