Senior Business Manager

Who You Are:

The Senior Business Manager has 5-7 years experience and is ready to move into a role that positions them at the center of the action - both with the client and the internal Chiat team.  

You will own workstreams, driving projects forward autonomously with oversight from a Business Director, Building the project path and managing campaign development from strategy to execution with a strong understanding of the production process.  

Your clients love you and your teammates can’t live without you. You proactively move projects forward and make the process better, but also offer a strategic perspective because of your deep understanding of the clients business needs. 

You have mastered the art of “story telling” and are able to develop and confidently present a compelling argument. You present information in a way that is easily understood.  

As you develop in this role, the Senior Business Manager will also start to flex the muscles that will prepare them for a Business Director role – command of the business, command of the room, mastery of debate, and motivation of the army. 

What You'll Do: 

The Senior Business Manager will have close client relationships, run client and internal meetings, tackle contact reports, and make sure the work is delivered on time, on brief and on budget; they will also be responsible for tracking all client approvals, trafficking finished work, and managing the final assets. 

• Understands the account, the clients and competitors business and the process well enough to have answers to most client questions in the moment 
• Articulate point of view on work. Understands how strategy shapes creative and can judge if it is on brand. Help prepare and sell the work. 
• Navigate sticky situations with grace 
• Goes the extra mile to make way for good work and a good meeting 
• Masters trafficking, asset management, and server management 
• Ensure tasks have clear objectives, timings, ownership and deliverables. Drive projects daily
• Anticipates storms on the horizons, develops solutions and flags to those who can help
• Empathetic to not just the team but also the client 
• Builds client relationships easily 
• Motivates the team and senses what they need 

As a member of the Business Department at TBWAChiatDay New York we expect that you possess these 6 traits:

1. Be Johnny on the spot
2. Have poise and presence
3. Possess spidey senses
4. Be proactive, not reactive
5. Fight for creativity
6. Be positive, be kind

Who We Are:

TBWAChiatDay Values

Our creative product is everyone’s responsibility.

We are tough on the work. We are kind to each other.

When we take care of each other, the rest takes care of itself.

TBWAChiatDay Attitudes

Curiosity: Be open minded to ideas wherever they come; curious people are often unafraid of change;

Collaboration: Self-confidence without a big ego; work with all types of people;

Integrity: What we say is what we do; it is honesty and respect in our dealings with people;

Resourcefulness: To find ways to do whatever we have to do for our clients, and our people

The annual salary range for this role is $90,000-$120,000 and may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic location and experience. Other compensation includes relocation costs, if applicable.

Benefits for this role include health/vision/dental insurance, 401(k), stock purchase, vacation, sick and personal days, Also, you will be eligible (approximately thirty days after you commence employment) to participate in all disability, life, travel insurance plans and programs, retirement plans subject to the terms and conditions of such benefit plans. Please don’t let our posted ranges keep you from exploring this or any other exciting opportunities within TBWA.