Associate Account Director
CG Life, United States

A CG Life Associate Account Director is an established strategic advisor with 8 years of marketing or agency experience. They are engrained in the science and healthcare industry and have a genuine interest in seeing it evolve. They have excellent communication and negotiation skills, allowing them to resolve demanding challenges internally and externally with pose and grace.

Key Responsibilities, including but not limited to:

In addition to following agency policies and procedures, principal accountabilities include, but are not limited to:

Business Impact:

• Builds on prior experiences to exercise judgment across multiple accounts and scenarios in order to select methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Able to formally manage highly complex projects, by prioritizing client needs, and pivoting as needed to meet aggressive deadlines and milestones.
• Collaborate with department heads to allocate resources and investments as needed when faced with bandwidth constraints and project overages to ensure agency profitability.
• Responsible for forecasts, revenue growth and margin in collaboration with PMs for owned accounts.
• Begins to display business acumen to apply knowledge beyond current client-base or vertical.
• Understands major strategies driving the organization and how day-to-day tasks relate to them. Works to support overall strategies with realistic steps, and understands how to control costs.

Industry Expertise:

• Deep understanding and expertise in the life science and healthcare industry; years of experience will encourage the ability to work across and beyond functional area of expertise; varying category experience and multi-channel experience, preferred.
• Works on complex issues where analysis of situations requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
• Guides client planning and forward-thinking via established industry knowledge, including but not limited to general business trends, holistic marketing activities, and industry-specific opportunities.
• Initiate brainstorms with Strategy, Creative and other teams to develop creative briefs with high-impact solutions and recommendations that align with client business goals.
• Ensures that all work leaving the agency delivers on the expectations outlined in the creative brief and is of the highest quality based on client inputs and market assessment.
• Dedicated to self-development and seizes on-the-job opportunities to enrich skills and learn new information about their profession on a regular basis.

Leadership:

• Manages and oversees activities from project kickoff through job completion to ensure project is executed to brief and within estimated parameters.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts on the creation of strong, focused creative and strategy briefs; when applicable, mentoring and guiding junior team members to do so.
• Consistently demonstrates good decision-making qualities: others frequently seek out their opinion. Methodical when addressing a situation and uses facts to form an accurate and complete analysis of information, known data, and politics.
• Owns senior-level client relationships and probe on organic growth opportunities within current accounts.
• Master presentation skills for current project work and new business capabilities.
• Leads by example: communicating the organization's cultural expectations with authority, giving employees advice on how to meet higher standards of professionalism, and supporting fluctuating demands within the team.
• Delegates and assigns responsibilities to others in a clear manner, establishing quantitative measurements and methods to monitor progress. Provides regular feedback and has a system to collect information about outcomes in an objective manner.
• Empowers others and supports them enthusiastically, reinforcing positive attributes and promoting confidence.

Communication:

• Able to interact with staff/colleagues of varying levels.
• Demonstrated success at working with cross-functional teams and building strong relationships both internally and externally.
• Able to identify and resolve issues, in a demanding and stressful environment.
• Skilled listener who is effective at analyzing situations and dealing with different perspectives. Carefully and accurately addressing conflicts and problems in an objective manner, with a focus on resolution.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in integrated marketing communications, preferably in an agency setting.
• Proven track record of building and maintaining strong client relationships.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-sol

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