Account Coordinator I - Entry Level

The Fountain Group; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 30,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

The Fountain Group seeks an Account Coordinator I in Irvine, CA, to manage day-to-day project details, support the account team, and coordinate with Creative and Production. This hybrid role combines onsite collaboration Tue/Wed/Thu with remote work Mon and Fri.

Interviews will be onsite. A BA/BS with up to 2 years in project management or related fields is preferred. Strong communication and organization skills are essential for handling Veeva submissions and billing tracking.

Qualifications

• Experience in project management, advertising or service business.
• Proficiency with project documentation and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Manages day-to-day details of projects and supports account team on PM tasks.
• Communicates with agency personnel to ensure on-time, within-budget execution.
• Assists Creative Team and participates in development sessions.
• Prepares projects for Veeva submission and maintains Veeva tracker.
• Coordinates live client meetings and manages meals logistics.
• Monitors project billings and maintains an estimates/billing tracker.
• Maintains client and agency status reports and distributes them.
• Liaises with Production Manager on new jobs and reprints.
• Manages inventory and TIM warehouse communications.
• Organizes and saves project status reports and final PDFs.

Skills

Prioritization

Detail-oriented

Interpersonal skills

Team player

Self-starter

Independent work

Excel

PowerPoint

Adobe

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Veeva

Job description

Pay: $22-24/hr
Duration:1 year
Location: Hybrid in Irvine, CA - T, W, Th onsite; Remote M, F

Position Title: Account Coordinator I

Interviews will be onsite; no virtual interviews

RESPONSIBILITIES

• 1. Manages the day-to-day details of projects and supports account team on project management as needed. This includes: helping with project routes within internal routing system, regulatory/medical review system and final completion to print or go live.
• • Understands the details and relevance of all jobs to communicate effectively with all Agency personnel to ensure assigned projects are correctly executed on time and within budget. Helps troubleshoot to ensure schedules are met.
• • Assists account team in providing input for Creative Team and participates in creative development sessions.
• • Prepares projects for submission to Veeva. This includes appropriate reference approval within Veeva librarian, Veeva job creation, and Veeva project uploads. Coordinates with account team and APC coordinator regarding cycling and approval of projects within Veeva. Maintains a Veeva tracker that includes status of all projects within the Veeva review system. Reviews and provides Veeva comments to determine action/next steps to account team
• • Coordinate live client meetings, this includes conference room set-up, ordering and organization of meals and clean up 60%
• 2. Handles projects and monitors billings for assigned Client projects.
• • Ensures that all Agency paperwork, estimates, and billing are correctly completed and filed.
• • Completes and maintains an estimate tracker to determine project status and billing, shares tracker across departments
• • Supports budget lead in inputting appropriate billing per project on a monthly basis 20%
• 3. Responsible for the initiation and maintenance of all documentation required for effective account management/project management:
• • Assists account team with administrative work such as opening jobs, reports, archiving, and organizing files.
• • Creates, updates, and distributes Client and Agency status reports on a regular basis in accordance with account needs.
• • When applicable: Writes and distributes detailed conference reports for Client and Agency meetings on a timely basis.
• • Lead contact with Production manager across all new jobs and reprints
• • Manages inventory and communication with TIM warehouse, monitors inventory levels and alerts account team when levels are low for reprinting consideration
• • Maintains agency samples and organization
• • Organizing and saving all appropriate status reports, steering comments, timelines, final PDFs of projects onto account server location. Maintain organization of server as needed. 20%

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Experience and education equivalent to a B.A. and/or B.S. and up to 2 years of professional experience in project management, advertising or a service business discipline.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• • Ability to prioritize, review the work of others and work in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• • Special project handling, detail oriented, and multi-tasking.
• • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and oral.
• • Team-player
• • Must be a self-starter, driven for excellence
• • Ability to work independently and exercise sound judgement and discretion in the handling of sensitive confidential matters.
• • Well-versed computer skills in business applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Adobe)
• • Exhibit potential for continued career growth.
• Understanding of our businesses, culture, and financial processes

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