New Business Account Executive

Responsibilities

• Support the day-to-day management and coordination of new business opportunities, pitches, and agency growth initiatives.
• Partner with New Business leadership to develop timelines, workstreams, deliverables, and meeting cadences for active opportunities.
• Cook up cross-departmental alignment and progress for pitch teams.
• Maintain new business status reports, calendars, trackers, and other materials to ensure visibility into deadlines, deliverables, and next steps.
• Conduct prospect, category, competitive, and marketplace research to support opportunity assessment and pitch development.
• Develop background materials and briefing documents that help agency teams quickly understand prospective clients, their businesses, competitors, and marketing challenges.
• Coordinate internal meetings, work sessions, rehearsals, and pitch-related logistics.
• Document key meetings and ensure clear communication and follow-up on decisions, responsibilities, and next steps.
• Support presentation development by coordinating content, collecting inputs, managing revisions, and ensuring materials are accurate and presentation-ready.
• Build strong working relationships across agency departments and help facilitate effective communication among pitch team members.
• Help maintain accurate information related to the agency’s new business pipeline and active opportunities.
• Support competitive reviews and agency research to stay informed on industry activity, client movement, and relevant marketplace developments.
• Aid in pitch logistics, including scheduling, technology needs, materials, travel coordination, and other requirements as needed.
• Lead select new business projects with oversight and counsel from senior team members.
• Contribute to broader agency growth, marketing, and culture initiatives as appropriate.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• 1 to 2 years of agency, marketing, communications, new business, or related experience.
• Strong oral, written, and presentation skills.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong research skills and an interest in brands, business, advertising, marketing, and culture.
• Proficiency in PowerPoint and/or Google Slides and comfort working with presentation materials.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate across multiple teams and levels of the organization.
• Resilient and flexible, particularly when priorities and timelines shift.
• Anticipates next steps and works independently when appropriate.
• Proactive, resourceful, and eager to learn.

Agency Engagement

• Actively participate in and contribute to a positive agency culture.
• Build relationships across departments and develop a strong understanding of BBDO’s capabilities, work, people, and clients.
• Stay informed on industry news, agency developments, creative work, and emerging marketing trends.
• Serve as an enthusiastic and resourceful partner to teams involved in new business.

Office Requirements

BBDO has adopted a hybrid working environment. Employees are required to be in the office Tuesday through Thursday and work from home Monday and Friday. $85,000-$110,000 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. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you.

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