Position Summary

The role of an Account Supervisor is to lead and motivate agency teams toward helping clients and their brands create a strong future. More specifically, he or she must be an active listener, passionate partner and brand steward, day in and day out. This role includes empowering involved teams, fostering collaboration, and continually pushing for fresh, new ideas.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and act as day-to-day client contact on one or more accounts
• Build and nurture strong client relationships
• Instigate and champion great ideas internally and externally
• Continually work with account planning to provide insightful input to client and agency team members on the brand’s strategic goals and vision
• Determine how to best match the agency’s services to the client’s needs, within budget
• Be the key integrator for all advertising and marketing functions, including strategic and creative development, creative contact management and integrated marketing activities
• Lead strategic development of marketing communication plans
• Oversee creative brief development and work with Account Planner, Creative Director, and Account Executive to finalize creative briefs that support stated strategy and positioning
• Keep Account Director informed on key initiatives and account concerns
• Ensure that the agency is adequately compensated for services rendered and generate financial forecasts and reports upon request
• Supervise, mentor and motivate account service team members
• Play an active role in new business as appropriate

Qualifications/Traits

• BA/BS Degree in Communications, Marketing or Advertising
• 5 – 8 years agency account management experience
• Ability to confidently persuade, present and champion ideas
• Ability to anticipate problems and challenges
• Thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment
• Confident and resourceful, can function with minimal supervision
• Possess excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Exhibit excellent written and oral communication skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

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Position Summary

The Account Executive is primarily responsible for the initiation and execution of all marketing, creative, creative contact and research projects for assigned accounts. He or she is the client’s day-to-day contact and brand steward within the agency.

Responsibilities

• Understand role and function of other agency disciplines and when those staff members should be brought in to interface with the client
• Set and communicate clear expectations with team for each project
• Maintain a positive relationship between agency and client and provide leadership within the agency on behalf of the client
• Understand clients’ business and strategic direction
• Assist with the development of marketing and communications planning
• Work with Account Planner, Creative Director, and Account Supervisor/Director to draft creative briefs
• Write monthly account status reports
• Review, analyze and evaluate creative output, research reports and client data
• Initiate and issue call reports after client meetings/discussions
• Follow up on all work in progress to ensure meeting due dates are met
• Manage creative development, production, media planning/execution, network clearance, legal approvals, client approvals, etc.
• Keep immediate supervisor informed to status and progress of all projects
• Review billing worksheets, work with Accounting and Production to manage costs, interface with client to answer billing questions and clear up accounts receivables
• Monitor all budget, research and production activity on assigned accounts and communicate status of each project to appropriate agency and client personnel
• Help mentor Assistant Account Executives
• Participate in new business as appropriate
  

Qualifications/Traits

• BA/BS Degree in Communications, Marketing or Advertising
• 3 – 5 years agency account management experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
• Thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment
• Confident and resourceful, function with minimal supervision
• Possess excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Exhibit excellent written and oral communications skills

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Position Summary

We’re looking for a senior strategist with a passion for discovering and defining the best opportunities for brands to stand out. This person should be a thinker, doer, creator, innovator and explorer who thrives in a highly collaborative, team-oriented environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, execution, analysis and reporting of primary and secondary research initiatives for clients and new business.
• Facilitate effective brainstorm and idea-generation sessions with internal and external teams.
• Uncover actionable insights, craft provocative briefs, conduct inspiring briefings and lay out strategic road maps that lead to standout ideas.
• Recommend and manage brand KPI and ROI metrics.
  
• Ensure that campaigns are being optimized for success by listening, learning and adapting in real time.
• Develop fresh ways to understand a brand, category, culture and audience.
• Lead the design of inventive and effective integrated marketing strategies and guide them through multiple stakeholders, client cultures and creative development.
• Create and apply forward-thinking perspectives that elevate the thought leadership and intellectual capital of the strategy team and agency.
• Continually monitor, interpret and share cultural and social trends relevant to client business.
• Motivate, mentor and coach strategists, associate strategists and strategy interns.
• Be comfortable operating as the main strategist on a piece of business, willing to get your hands dirty on everything from the daily ground work to the high-level stuff.
  

Qualifications/Traits

• A bachelor’s degree or higher.
  
• 7+ years of total work experience, 5+ years of experience in a strategic planning or strategically driven role.
• Agency experience (preferable) or equivalent appropriate experience.
  
• Ability to confidently lead clients and internal teams.
• Solid skills in all core areas: research and insights, business and digital strategy, media and connections planning, and cultural anthropology.
• Possess a high degree of independence, motivation and desire to constantly grow and improve.
• Curiosity about what makes a brand meaningful, what is driving and influencing culture, and why people do what they do.
• Passion for brilliant work, great strategy and wanting to constantly make things better.
• Able to be creative, strategic and imaginative while remaining grounded in business realities.
• A good grasp on the industry playbooks with a healthy disrespect for legacy industry models.
• Research ambidexterity, qualitative and quantitative.
• Strong strategic and marketing acumen, but without the ego or need to prove it.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented.
  
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• A positive, proactive, self-starting, action-oriented, make-it-happen attitude.
  

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Position Summary

Colle+McVoy, named one of the Best Places to Work by Advertising Age and Outside, is seeking a junior to mid-level art director to do awesome stuff in an environment that is fueled by creating standout work. Responsibilities include coming up with and executing big campaign ideas (and little ones) across all mediums, as well as art directing partners: photographers, retouchers, illustrators, directors, animators, editors, print vendors, etc.

Responsibilities

• Develop concepts, layouts and collaborate with copywriters and other creatives to produce a high caliber of refined work under deadlines
• Art direct through final layouts; attend photo shoots, broadcast shoots and all aspects of post-production
• Present ideas and work to team and/or senior creative personnel
• Possess a spectrum of design skills, interactive design is a plus
• Remain current on industry trends and technology

Qualifications/Traits

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and/or ad school credentials
• Less than five years of experience, but with a killer book
• Basic understanding of printing process, photography, illustration, typography, interactive
• Competency in the Adobe Creative Suite of applications
• Ability to gracefully handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment

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Position Summary

C+M is seeking an Associate Creative Director/Sr. Copywriter to help on both business-to-business and business-to-consumer accounts with the responsibility of leading, creating and executing effective, inventive ideas for our clients, across all mediums. More specifically, this would include assisting the Group Creative Director in strategic planning, creative brief development, creative direction and participating in client presentations. The role also includes diving in as a copywriter on projects and driving larger initiatives as the lead writer. Agriculture and animal health experience is a plus. Title is commensurate with experience.

Responsibilities

• Assists the Group Creative Director in managing the creative output on accounts
• Leads creative campaign development as a copywriter and collaborates other team members to produce a high caliber of work
• Ensures all details are accounted for during all phases of production
• Presents ideas and work to the internal teams, as well as the client
• Mentors and provides creative direction to teams on projects
• Remains current on industry trends and technology

Qualifications/Traits

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and/or ad school credentials
• 8 plus years of experience at creatively renown agencies
• Experience leading projects and creative teams from start to finish
• Killer portfolio with demonstrated versatility of writing styles across all mediums
• Ability to gracefully handle multiple projects in a fast-moving culture

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Account Management Internship

In an Account Management internship, you will be immersed in our clients’ businesses and actively participate in the full branding work for them. You also will be responsible for initiating and executing various marketing and research projects while familiarizing yourself with the other disciplines in the agency. 

What does that mean? Essentially, we are looking for great people who are eager to expand their skills. We want individuals who can anticipate client and agency needs; are completely comfortable with all of advertising’s concepts, practices and procedures; and – most important – are committed to stewarding amazing work that everyone, from clients to copywriters, can be proud of.

Job Requirements

• Four-year college degree 
• High level of knowledge of advertising and communications
• Exceptional communication skills – both one-on-one and in teams
• Strong cognitive skills
• Ability to work alone or part of a team
• Capable of juggling multiple projects at one time and meet tight deadlines
• Ability to assist with administrative needs around the agency

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Colle+McVoy is an Equal Opportunity Employer.