Associate Director, Client Lead

Responsibilities

• Bring strong thought leadership to client and team engagements.
• Prepare and present Local Landscape and marketplace to internal teams and external clients.
• Prepare and Present Buy Summary, Added Value, Posts, Audit reports and POVs on market opportunities to strategy counterparts and clients.
• Oversee Supervisor Client Lead(s) and Negotiators for skill development, time and expense reporting, goal and performance reporting.
• Aid Director with projects, VBS integrations and reporting, deliverable progress/timeline management.
• Build relationships with senior Management in the vendor community.
• Manage team training program participation across multiple topics; lead sub committees for team challenges / innovation; mentor Managers/Supervisors to further growth.
• Collaborate with Planning/Strategy & Client Leads brainstorm for increased innovation in client communication and / or productivity.
• Drive process automation improvement to decrease team level of effort.
• Analyze market level costs and collaborate with PMX on pricing benchmarks.
• Participate in New Business – Prepare and Present all areas of Local Media.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in Local Media.
• Confident communicator with great people skills, proven leader, approachable, collaborative, responsible and accountable.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Suite (specific attention to Excel and PPT).
• Experience with OX, Prisma, SQAD, and Tapscan.