SVP, Account Director - H&W

The SVP/Account Director will play a key strategic role for one (or more) of our most prestigious client relationships. In this role, you will be the lead steward. This requires a dynamic approach inclusive of managing a continuously evolving relationship in our ever-changing marketing landscape. You will ensure that TANK continues to champion our team’s efforts in making meaningful work for our clients. This role demands a forward-thinking strategic leader who will oversee a large multi-disciplinary team serving both national and global clients. You will also play a key role in identifying new growth opportunities both within your existing brands and agency new business efforts.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Client + Brand Advisor
  • Demonstrate thorough understanding of your client’s market landscape, including competition, with a perspective and POV on trends that bring innovative thinking and ensure forward-looking work.
  • Use your experience and deep understanding of the client’s business, including emerging trends, consumer behavior, and the ever-evolving innovation landscape relevant to your client’s business, to establish yourself as a thought leader and help set the direction for your accounts.
  • Serve as a key point person for all day-to-day client communications across the team, which include but are not limited to daily updates to the more senior client-agency evaluations.
  • Develop and maintain strong collaborative internal and external relationships, becoming the client’s go-to agency resource for any and all initiatives.
  • Run senior client level meetings, ensure work is delivered on time, on brief, and within budget, and take a proactive and transparent approach should the team not be able to deliver within the budget/timeline provided.
  • Partner with the EVP to create a measurable and quantifiable dashboard to report on the client-agency relationship status.
• Creative Collaborator and Creative Champion
  • Work seamlessly with your cross-discipline leadership team, as a team, and work to deliver famously effective work and thinking to our clients every day. 
  • Set our people, presentations and work up for success. 
  • You work with your creative and strategy leadership partners to own driving a culture of creative ambition with both clients and your cross-discipline agency teams.
  • Oversee and act as a client-centric contributor to project level work, shaping the approach or presentation based on the client business and brand strategy, organizational dynamics, and agency positioning.
  • Oversee live-action television shoots (including attending pre-production meetings and shoots), supervise post-production processing (including process review, rough cuts, etc.), and work on digital and social initiatives (website builds, upkeep, social media, landing pages, and microsites)
• Growth Oriented Agency Leader
  • Lead Account team members, provide cross-disciplinary leadership by being prepared, proactive, thorough, fair, and balanced, and have a willingness to do what’s required by clearly communicating and managing expectations.
  • Partner with the EVP on management and drive long-term planning of the account.
  • Run the operations of the cross-discipline team - thinking as much about “how” we are working - ensuring clarity of roles and responsibilities across the team.
  • Develop accurate budgets and timelines, manage budget in partnership with Project Management and Finance, support senior Account leadership by continuously reviewing financial performance at the top and bottom line, and successfully forecast against a project pipeline and guide investment decisions toward healthy agency profitability.
• Intentional Leadership
  • Lead through the lens of our values and ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion are core to how you lead.
  • Lead and invested in the growth and development of the account team. Comfortable with giving and receiving consistent feedback and making sure to create an environment that fosters strong performers on your team.
  • Lead and invested in the growth and development of the entire cross-discipline team - fostering a team environment that brings out the ability for everyone to do their best work.
  • Consider yourself an agency leader - invested in the culture of the Studio and the wellbeing of our people.
  • Partner with the EVP on management and drive long-term planning of the account.

WHO YOU ARE

• Creative: Aligned with our vision of being committed to creativity
• Productive: Able to do what it takes to get the job done
• Collaborative: Team player focused on the greater good versus personal gain
• Adaptable: Ready and able to embrace change
• Analytical: Always evaluating and questioning what could be better or how can we work smarter

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• Passionate interest in the client’s business while you always look for ways to get upstream within the organization
• High creative output standards, expecting the full team to be passionate, focused, and committed to making Famously Effective work for our clients
• 12+ years in a related environment (marketing, agency, product, etc)
• Experience in full 360 integrated work, including but not limited to TV, content, digital, social, and OOH
• Experience in developing and leading work in omni-channel format
• Experience in partnering with clients and strategy team in shaping, leading the prep for, and implementing insights from market-research projects
• Experience in building strong client relationships that result in excellent work and drive organic growth
• Experience in effective account housekeeping (timelines and budget development and management)
• Proven track record of supervising and developing Account talent

The base salary for this position at the time of this posting may range from $140,000 to $295,000. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications.