Location: Lake Forest, Illinois
Job Type: Contract
Compensation Range: $38 - 44 per hour
We’re hiring an Account Manager to serve as the primary liaison between our Ad Agency and brand teams. This role involves managing day-to-day relationships, working closely with creative staff and external suppliers, and providing strategic direction to help brand teams achieve their business objectives and sales goals.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with the brand team in the development of creative briefs.
- Recommend key promotional tactics that align with the strategy and goals of the brand.
- Issue client contact reports to ensure key information is being quickly communicated to all involved stakeholders.
- Review creative development of a project during concept to completion to ensure specifications, client expectations, budgets, timelines, etc. are being adhered to.
- Facilitate ongoing, timely and accurate communications to ensure all projects are completed on time and within budget.
- Develop annual forecasts.
- Conduct financial reconciliations on a monthly basis.
- Track time on a daily basis.
- Experienced Agency Account Manager who possesses ability to think strategically and can provide solutions that can help our marketing partners meet their objectives.
- Maintains a deep understanding of the Agency Workflow Process including project initiation and kickoff, collaboration, necessary approvals, production and archiving.
- Demonstrate the ability to prioritize and multi-task to enhance productivity and manage workload.
- Detail-oriented, ability to manage multiple products, tasks and client domains.
- Maintains broad experience developing relationship and growing accounts.
- Pharmaceutical Experience: Demonstrates an understanding of pharmaceutical marketing, product attributes, marketing objectives, target audience, competitive environment, market dynamics and medical/regulatory/legal.
- Digital background: familiarity with online tools, apps and digital solutions that are critical to success in the pharmaceutical marketing space.
KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS
- Maintain knowledge of company guidelines including, but not limited to, corporate branding, promotional material development, PromoMats review and corporate compliance.
- Possess a thorough understanding of their accounts' (both U.S. and Global) product attributes, marketing objectives, target audience, competitive environment, market dynamics and medical/regulatory/legal position.
- Maintain an intimate understanding of the Agency Workflow Process including project initiation and kickoff, collaboration, necessary approvals, production and archiving.
- Demonstrate critical creative thinking and problem solving skills.
- Demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrate the ability to prioritize and multi-task to enhance productivity and manage workload.
- Demonstrate leadership in conflict resolution to facilitate effective outcomes.
- Possess ability to work in a high-volume, rapidly paced environment.
PROJECT/PROCESS MANAGEMENT
- Collaborate with the brand team in the development of creative briefs
- Recommend key promotional tactics that align with the strategy and goals of the brand.
- Issue client contact reports to ensure key information is being quickly communicated to all involved stakeholders.
- Review creative development of a project during concept to completion to ensure specifications, client expectations, budgets, timelines, etc. are being adhered to.
- Facilitate ongoing, timely and accurate communications to ensure all projects are completed on time and within budget.
- Develop annual forecasts.
- Conduct financial reconciliations on a monthly basis.
- Track time on a daily basis.
ACCOUNTABILITY / SCOPE
- Reports to the Ad Agency Associate Director / Group Account Manager.
- Partners with creative team on project initiatives.
- Accountable for strategic direction creative/tactical execution, compliance to all related guidelines and budget.
- Adherence to all company-wide financial policies.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor degree required.
- Master's degree or equivalent related project or functional experience is desirable.
- Total account management experience - minimum of 4-6 years.
- Pharmaceutical industry experience preferred (both U.S. and Global).
- In-house ad agency/ad agency experience a plus.
- Excellent communications Skills: verbal, presentation, written.
- High energy, positive, organized individual who is comfortable in a high-visibility role.
- Ability to manage high volume project scope in a fast paced creative environment.
- Great collaborator with ability to focus on both the big picture and small details.
Skills:
- Manager
- Marketing
- Project Management
JOBID: 1074216
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Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.
At Cella, a randstad digital company, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact [email protected].
Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Cella by randstad digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, an incentive and recognition program, and 401K contribution (all benefits are based on eligibility).
This posting is open for thirty (30) days.
