Associate, Business Leadership

Core Responsibilities

• Support of Workstreams: Assist in the execution of standard retail marketing creative development and ad-hoc projects, ensuring all internal cross-functional teams are aligned and milestones are met on time.
• Strategic Escalation: Manage intake of day-to-day client requests and expectations while identifying when to escalate information or issues to senior Business Leadership.
• Proactive Project Management: Demonstrate a working understanding of agency processes and workflow to move projects through the system with minimal friction.
• Account Operations & Maintenance: Ensure the account’s "operational health" by managing meeting invites, maintaining up-to-date status documents, and overseeing project tracking and financial billing.
• Senior Team Support: Directly assist senior Business Leadership team members with client needs, IAT involvement and strategic planning needs.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Manage internal team collaboration to ensure all work is cross-communicated and executed to agency standards.
• Legal & Quality Control: Work with internal and client legal teams to ensure all marketing materials are legally cleared and reflect a "keen eye" for accuracy and brand standards.
• Category and Competitive Insight: Maintain a current working knowledge of the relevant competitive and category landscape and leverage to research and author a monthly competitive newsletter for distribution to Clients and interagency teams.

Qualifications And Requirements

• Professional Experience: 3+ years of relevant professional experience. Retail marketing experience preferred.
• Agency Experience: 2+ years of agency experience with a solid understanding of agency processes, department functions, and workflow.
• Industry Knowledge: Possession of advertising industry knowledge and/or experience is preferred.
• Proactive Initiative: Demonstrates a "self-starter" mentality with a proven ability to anticipate account needs and take ownership of tasks before being asked.
• Ambitious Drive: Exhibits a high level of energy and professional drive, consistently looking for ways to improve output and exceed established objectives.
• Intellectual Curiosity: Maintains a natural curiosity about consumer culture, and emerging marketing trends, using that insight to bring fresh perspectives to the team and the client.
• Operational Excellence: Strong organizational skills with a focus on project tracking, status updates, financial oversight & server maintenance.
• Supportive Mindset: A collaborative style and the ability to effectively support senior leaders on high-stakes workstreams.
• Communication Skills: Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Detail Oriented: A keen eye for detail combined with a passion to guarantee accuracy and quality for all work submitted and published.

Pay

The salary range for this position is $66,300. Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; location and region; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.