Account Executive

Hill Holliday•New York, NY

8d•$60,000 - $80,000

About The Position

The Account Executive will be responsible for consistent support of day-to-day business activities to ensure efficient communication and flow of work. This role involves the management of smaller business activities and work streams, acting as the day-to-day project contact with lower-level clients, creative teams, internal teams, and other agency partners. The position requires building and maintaining relationships grounded in accountability and trust, showing curiosity for client businesses and their categories, and supporting internal agency teams in the strategic process using insights to solve business problems. The Account Executive will develop and exhibit category and client business expertise, manage the evaluation of competitive sets, consumer and cultural trends, new work, and updates. They will contribute to the development and packaging of presentations for client review, partner with internal teams to manage the creation and delivery of great work, and manage multiple smaller projects while supporting more senior leads on larger projects from end-to-end. This role also includes project managing smaller projects, workflow system data entry and reporting, a basic understanding of staffing and scoping, and supporting client financials by monitoring and managing up on staffing or scoping implications on projects.

Requirements

Individual contributor with developed leadership skills.
Able to comfortably shift work priorities when things change.
Proactively seeks out answers and solutions.
Articulate and thoughtful written and verbal communication.
Experience collaborating positively and effectively with internal or external partners and clients.
Enjoys working with different people who bring new ideas to the table.
Takes ownership of projects and deliverables.
Strong contributor to on-time, on-budget quality execution.
Proactively identifies and communicates opportunities to improve work and processes.
2-3+ years of experience in an advertising agency
Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications or related field

Responsibilities

Consistent support of day-to-day business activities to ensure efficient communication and flow of work.
Management of smaller business activities and work streams.
Acting as the day-to-day project contact with lower level clients, creative teams, internal teams and other agency partners, building and maintaining relationships grounded in accountability and trust.
Showing curiosity for our client’s business and the category.
Supporting the internal agency teams in the upfront strategic process, using insights to solve business problems.
Developing and exhibiting category and client business expertise and managing the evaluation of competitive sets, consumer and cultural trends, new work and updates.
Contributing to the development, packaging of presentation of new ideas or opportunities for client review.
Partnering with internal teams to manage “the making” and delivery of great work, managing multiple smaller projects and supporting more senior leads on larger projects from end-to-end.
Project managing smaller projects, workflow system data entry and reporting, basic understanding of staffing and scoping.
Supporting on client financials; monitoring and managing up on staffing or scoping implications on projects.