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Overview

A niche marketing and advertising agency in Central Phoenix, Angell Marketing serves senior living and healthcare clients throughout the country. And we’re growing, so we need a full-time Advertising Agency Account Executive talent.

The ideal candidate has a great attitude and is professional, organized, has excellent communications skills and is self-motivated. The ability to multi-task, be pro-active and follow through on all assignments and projects is a must. You will play a very important role for developing and executing marketing programs by leading the day-to-day client relationship, initiating work with our creative team and vendors, and managing timelines and budgets. The ideal candidate will possess a desire to grow with the agency, and possess strong leadership, presentation, and interpersonal skills. Opportunities may include travel to client meetings and industry conferences and assisting with new business development.

Responsibilities:

• Experience working directly with clients to manage plan development, project deliverables and deadlines
• Ability to interact and communicate with senior management, colleagues, vendors, and others to secure and coordinate program/project communication deliverables
• Experience drafting, estimates, presentations, creative work orders, project timelines
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills
• Ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously
• Understands social media platforms
• Technologically adept at the Microsoft Office Suite programs and project tracking and billing software
• Ability to convey a professional image, as well as effectively represent the organization as appropriate internally and externally

Essential Skills:

• 3 – 5 years of experience in an advertising agency
• Administer software project information input
• MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Organized and ability to multi-task and work with minimal supervision
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, advertising, or a related field

Set-up & Getting Started:

• Meet with every team member to learn their working style, preferences, workload capabilities, communication style, etc.
• Review current schedule templates and update as needed
• Create job flows for Direct Mail, Print Advertising, Collateral, Digital, Website Development, etc.
• Identify and manage issues across multiple projects
• Work with Creative Director to turn job flows into productive visuals
• Continuously create and email template(s) for opening jobs
• Provide feedback regarding processes, methods, technology updates and proposed solutions

Production & Project Management:

• Manager/Owner/Trainer of FunctionPoint (project management software)
• Manager of Quality Assurance and Quality Control
• Schedule and hold weekly team traffic meetings
• Generate a “Hot List” email each morning coordinating communication between the creative staff, digital staff, vendors,
  and client services
• Manage jobs from inception to completion; create/open jobs in FunctionPoint for all client on a quarterly basis – this
  will ensure jobs start on time, stay favorable to budget, and provide successful product/service delivery
• Hold the team accountable for productivity and timeliness of work
• Check to ensure all projects have been invoiced each month
• Check profitability of projects before closing them out on FunctionPoint Budgets & Billing:
• Support account manager to develop annual budget and estimated ensuring jobs stay within scope and budget
• Advise account managers on different job options that stay within budget
• Annually review and update rates within FunctionPoint estimates
• Annually review and update schedules within FunctionPoint
• Annually review of job flows and update visuals accordingly
• Work closely with accounting to ensure all estimates are entered correctly to match actuals and billing

Vendors:

• Obtain competitive quote form vendors and monitor actual costs to ensure project deliverables are within budget
  parameters and timeframe
• Constantly communicate with vendors regarding job status and due dates
• Manage relationships with vendors and troubleshoot issues that may arise

Essential skills:

• 3 – 5 years of experience in an office setting
• Administer software updates and training
• MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Organized and ability to multi-task and work with minimal supervision