Account Supervisor, College Athletics

Horizon Media•New York, NY

5d•$90,000 - $110,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Account Supervisor oversees and manages the college athletics portfolio for a leading domestic telecommunications company. Their primary responsibility is to ensure that the agency delivers high-quality work that meets the client's needs while maintaining a positive relationship with the client. The role involves various responsibilities, such as managing client relationships, developing and implementing strategic plans to achieve client goals, overseeing the work of account executives and coordinators, and ensuring that projects are completed on time and within budget. Account Supervisors also work closely with other departments within the agency, such as creative, media, and research, to ensure that all work produced for the client is of the highest quality. They must effectively communicate with clients, agency team members, and vendors and have strong project management skills to ensure that all aspects of a project are completed successfully. Other key responsibilities of an Account Supervisor include tracking and reporting on campaign performance, identifying new business opportunities, and managing budgets and financial reports. They must also stay up to date with industry trends and best practices and be able to apply this knowledge to client accounts to achieve the best results.

Requirements

Team-spirited and collaborative to achieve client objectives
Previous experience working with college sports, including NIL, for a brand, team, college, or MMR
Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working on multiple partnerships and activations at a time
Proven leader, experience managing a team
Tremendous organizational skills, attention to detail and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and competing priorities
An innovative thinker, concepting creative ideas for various activations
A strong writer, listener, communicator and presenter
Solutions oriented and proactive problem solver with foresight and the ability to develop creative solutions
Experience with sponsorship measurement techniques
An advocate for and supporter of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Minimum of 5+ years of advertising/marketing experience at an agency or brand with a proven performance record
Experience with digital marketing and/or managing the design and development of websites; traditional marketing experience
Experience working across organizations and interfacing with a variety of stakeholders
Strong organization, attention to detail, time management and dependability, able to meet deadlines
Proven experience developing persuasive presentations and comfortable presenting to C-Suite level clients
Past experience with sponsorship strategy development, activation concepts, compliance (measurement analysis experience is a plus)
Ability to conduct comprehensive client-facing research
Ability to effectively manage a variety of overlapping projects
Must be solutions oriented and focused on proactive problem solving and advanced troubleshooting
Effective communicator and listener
High level of proficiency with Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree
Ability to work nights, weekends or travel for client programs and/or events

Responsibilities

Lead the account team in the management and implementation of clients’ marketing campaigns and client portfolios; supervise the creative and tactical development, as well as execution of, national and local market campaign deliverables, including (but not limited to) consumer promotions, sponsorship, social/digital, experiential/event activations
Proactively anticipate both internal and client needs while delivering total quality control of final output across traditional advertising, sales materials, digital, social, and experiential
Craft client briefs (defining business objectives inclusive of customer insights), and translating them into actionable marketing communications strategies and tactics
Direct logistics and execution of partnerships, events and promotions with respective rights holders and vendors, with particular attention to developing and managing production timelines and overseeing delivery of integrated campaign assets
Oversee general partnership operations, ensuring teams are working effectively, communicating efficiently and organizational structure is productive
Proper delegation of day-to-day responsibilities to team members
Utilize creative and innovative thinking skills to develop partnership concepts and strategies for clients
Oversight of the financial execution of all agreements and contracts, ensuring all billing and payments are properly executed through the finance team
Facilitate communication with internal counterparts, vendors, rights holders and upper management
Build and maintain long-term business relationships (internal and external)
Develop, maintain and advance professional and personable relationships with clients and partner agencies at appropriate level
Manage day-to-day communication and coordination between client (or Business Solutions team), rights holders and vendors
Contribute to the development of client strategies and objectives
Seek new partnership solutions to deliver on clients’ goals and evaluate current health of client business via analysis of relevant business metrics (ROI/ROO); introduce advanced measurement solutions to help guide long-term activation approach and establish annual benchmarks for success
Ensure client portfolios are being managed up to the highest standards
Contribute, build and maintain positive and dynamic culture across the agency, inclusive of team-building efforts and social activities
Manage the professional development of each direct report
Set career development goals, track performance, and hold team members accountable
Work with team members to improve skill sets and remove barriers to effectiveness
Provide constructive feedback in real time
Contribute to the execution of people functions of the agency (including, but not limited to): Staff reviews / quarterly check-ins, Identify training needs for improved performance, Developing action plans
Support HS&E’s new business efforts, when applicable, with strategic solutions, insights and concept development ideation
Build close relationships with key Horizon stakeholders on brand strategy and activation teams