Account Director - Gilbert - Elevation Marketing

Description

Elevation Marketing is a 25-year-old independent data-driven B2B only marketing agency focused on driving marketing strategies for enterprise organizations around the globe. The agency prioritizes strategy and data (mixed with the right dose of creativity and technology) identifying key marketing touch points that align with ideal buyers to drive customers and prospects towards critical business actions. With cutting-edge technology systems and platforms, Elevation delivers sustainable, end-to-end (full service) digital and traditional B2B marketing solutions that consistently deliver measurable results for brands.

We're in a strong growth phase and are expanding our team with high-performing, collaborative, and results-driven professionals who thrive in a fast-paced agency environment.

The Account Director directly manages key agency accounts plus they may be responsible for guiding smaller accounts through jr. staff. This role will also help support the strategic and high-level tactical efforts inside various accounts that they support including account planning, marketing strategy, client branding, lead gen and other B2B marketing activities that Elevation engages in on behalf of its clients.

We love being in office together and we are passionate about the culture, collaboration, learning and the community it creates and we hope you value this as well. This is a full-time on-site role, with two work from days a month.

The key KPI's of the job include:

• Account Leadership: ability to lead clients, and their businesses to help drive measurable B2B marketing ROI through strategy, planning, and executional excellence.
• Digital and Traditional Marketing: ability to strategically lead, plan and execute both digital (including demand generation) and traditional marketing efforts on behalf of our clients.
• Marketing Leadership: full understanding of complete suite of B2B marketing service offerings and the ability to drive research, strategy, and brand solutions.
• Team Leadership: potential leadership, mentoring and coaching of assigned account that could include 1 or two members.
• Account Growth: ability to manage, lead and grow key accounts.
• New Business: the ability to understand businesses quickly and provide support for the late stages of the sales journey including help presenting initial marketing thoughts, scope of works, etc.

Other Duties and Responsibilities

• Managing and supporting core agency account services processes.
• Ability to lead brand, strategy, and develop (with SMEs inside the agency) full scoped digital and traditional marketing plans for CMO's of global brands.
• Ensuring the team is consistently delivering top quality outputs.
• Potentially lead junior account staff to help generate new ideas to help our smaller clients grow their businesses.
• Proposal Writing & Planning – ability to write proposals and SOW's as needed.
• Evaluation & Results Delivery – monitoring the success of client programs, both digital and traditional, as provided by the team and suggest adjustments as necessary to meet the goals of the agreed upon plan or marketing initiatives.
• Review & Delivery of Agency Output – reviewing and authorizing final deliverables, bot digital and traditional, to clients through our creative, digital and account teams to ensure they are on brand, on strategy and on message.
• Client Satisfaction & Swift Problem Resolution – staying informed on all activities that are being performed on client accounts.
• New Business Support – Support new business on an as needed basis.
• Impact Culture: Be an internal champion for the agency, its work, and the culture.

More Details

• Understand client specific needs to create effective marketing plans and programs.
• Review project briefs/plans for internal and external teams.
• Share marketing results to team/company on a regular basis.
• Involvement in regular account planning meetings and new business presentations.
• Assist in the writing of new business proposals and strategy engagements as needed.
• Ensure client satisfaction and swift problem resolution.
• Independently make decisions based on company standards.
• Seek and develop an internal mentor-based relationship to help train and guide employees.

Skills and Experience

• Elevation is a marketing agency with high profile national clients. They demand experienced employees and highly experienced agencies to work on their accounts.
• This job requires a person with 5+ years marketing experience preferably in the B2B marketing space.
• Advertising or Marketing Agency experience required
• You must be passionate about marketing, client service, account planning, branding, strategy, and mentoring staff with demonstrated experience in all areas.
• Finally, you must be comfortable growing accounts understanding that agency net account growth is the one core KPI's of an agency.

About Our Values

Over time, we find that employees who live out our values, enjoy their experience and stay and prosper over a long period of time at Elevation. We try to live out the following values each and every day. We are not perfect, but we try:

• People: Each employee, partner and client deserve to reach their full potential.
• Integrity: Honesty, truth-telling, and transparency must always exist.
• Collaboration: Creating great marketing relies on each stakeholder to fully engage in the process without personal, professional, or relational roadblocks.
• Results: As individuals, we own our successes, the success of our fellow employees and the success of our clients.
• Evolution: With purpose, as individuals and as an agency, we embrace tomorrow's opportunities through continuous planning, self-assessment, training, learning, and activation.

Compensation and Benefits

Elevation strives to provide some of the best agency compensation and benefit packages in the great southwest. Salary range for this position is $90,000-$110,000 based on experience. The job is in Gilbert, AZ (just off the Loop 202 expressway) and less than one mile from over 50 restaurants. Elevation pays for 95% of employee's life, health and long-term disability insurance. Elevation offers vision, dental and a variety of other benefits that an employee can purchase. The kitchen area is full of free snacks and beverages. Tuition reimbursement is available. The salary range for this position will vary depending on experience and skills outlined above but is at the higher end of market rates for agency work in the Valley.