Senior Account Executive

Pep•Cincinnati, OH

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Account Executive plans and develops marketing strategies and plans for assigned clients, with a strong focus on incentives. The role may also manage planned marketing campaigns, promotions, and strategy for non-retainer clients, ensuring projects stay on time and on budget. The Senior Account Executive works with agency contacts and internal teams to move plans from planning into execution, oversees relevant agency relationships, and uses competitive activity, data, analytics, and insights to identify opportunities and optimize programs. The position also contributes to effective processes and best practices, reviews results, and communicates with clients, suppliers, and internal resources to support flawless execution. The role reports to the Account Supervisor and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio, with a hybrid work model; teams work in the office an average of four days per week.

Requirements

Experience planning brand strategy and creating marketing plans.
Strong Excel skills, with above-average proficiency required.
Experience with Microsoft Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
Typing speed of at least 55 words per minute.
Ability to identify and provide creative solutions to challenges.
Ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment, manage numerous consecutive projects, and maintain strong attention to detail.
Excellent organization, time management, and oral and written communication skills.
Ability to address problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Ability to build relationships and collaborate across teams, departments, vendors, and clients.
Ability to manage timelines, budgets, and deliverables for multiple projects simultaneously.
Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence and speak effectively before groups of customers or employees.
Ability to demonstrate internal leadership and collaborate to deliver projects within agreed scope.
Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, and percentages.

Responsibilities

Develop overall strategy and deploy it effectively across assigned brands.
Create best practices and frameworks for plan development, measurement, and optimization, and enable consistent implementation across the organization.
Coordinate with relevant agency contacts on planning and follow the budget and objective handoff process from the agency to pep.
Oversee relationships with relevant agencies.
Understand brand objectives and provide a point of view on strategy development.
Monitor competitive activity and use data, analytics, and insights to identify opportunities and optimize programming.
Work with pep team members to move marketing plans from planning to execution.
Assist with managing promotions when necessary.
Conduct status meetings with clients, suppliers, and internal resources to support execution, review results and analytics, and discuss strategy optimization.
Lead the establishment and development of new or improved processes and procedures.
Seek additional training in incentive strategy and planning and develop expertise in the coupon industry.
Provide valuable, actionable insights to clients.
Manage timelines, budgets, deliverables, and multiple projects simultaneously.
Proof own and others' work to ensure accuracy.
Mentor and collaborate harmoniously as part of a larger team.