Account Executive

HRCUS RAPP Illinois Inc; United States; On-site; USD 55,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom Group’s RAPP unit in the United States is seeking an Account Executive focused on account management and growth. You will coordinate client initiatives, manage scope, and partner with strategy to deliver multi-channel campaigns.

The role demands strong communication, strategic thinking, and the ability to drive value-added projects while traveling as needed. This is an on-site position requiring collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience; 2–5 years of industry experience.
• Experience supporting integrated marketing campaigns (advertising, crm, digital, social media, SEO/SEM, and email).
• Proven ability to express ideas clearly and organize projects.
• Strategic, creative thinking; strong presentation skills.
• Willingness to travel.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate client initiatives and manage scope with discipline leads.
• Develop briefs with strategy and implement client marketing plans.
• Establish relationships with junior clients and communicate issues early.
• Monitor project hand-offs and track scope creep; manage finances.
• Prepare weekly/monthly status reports and precise meeting notes.
• Drive value-added projects and ensure alignment with business strategy.

Skills

Client coordination

Bachelor’s Degree

2-5 years experience

Integrated marketing campaigns

Communication & presentation

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

CRM platforms

Digital advertising tools

SEO/SEM tools

Job description

Agency: RAPP Job Function: Account Management and Growth Job Subfunction: Account Management Job Description:

WHO WE ARE:

We are RAPP – world leaders in activating growth with precision and empathy at scale. As a global, next-generation precision marketing agency we leverage data, creativity, technology, and empathy to foster client growth. We champion individuality in the marketing solutions we create, and in our workplace. We fight for solutions that adapt to the individual’s needs, beliefs, behaviors, and aspirations. We foster an inclusive workplace that values diversity and emphasizes personal well-being.

HOW WE DO IT:

At RAPP, our fearless superconnectors help to create value from personal brand experiences by focusing on three key areas: connected data, connected content and connected decisioning. Our data analysts identify who that person is, our strategists understand what they want, and our award-winning technologists and creatives know how to deliver it – ensuring we’re able to activate authentic customer connections for our clients. Part of Omnicom’s Precision Marketing Group, RAPP is comprised of 2,000+ creatives, technologists, strategists, and data and marketing scientists across 15+ global markets.

YOUR ROLE:

The expectation is that the AE is master of co-ordination, demonstrating high potential in core Business Leadership skills. You will understand the agency portfolio of offerings and how to apply them to solve client business problems. Partners and owns the relationship with clients at the most mid-jr. levels. Is an Agency driver that works to keep the agency operations moving along.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Builds expertise on a brand’s competitive landscape and product differentiators.
• Understands appropriate research techniques for strategy, creative, and media needs.
• Collaborates with strategy to develop briefs.
• Participates in /has exposure to development of client marketing strategy.
• Establishes core relationships with junior clients.
• Knows when to elevate potential problems.
• Acts as key collaborator with internal groups.
• Is able to partner with, organize and navigate assignments effectively.
• Evaluates creative work and provides feedback for revisions, as needed.
• Able to adequately represent client interests to team.
• Collaborates with team at appropriate times to ensure consensus around scoping, project approach, etc.
• Ability to write accurate scopes by engaging appropriate discipline leads and asking detailed questions of clients to gain clarity around deliverables and needs (excels in project definition.)
• Documented, rigorous scope tracking and scope creep identification.
• Manages finances.
• Effectively and proactively communicates to client issues that can result in a scope change.
• Issues change orders, with oversight.
• Monitors critical project hand-offs.
• Initiates, presents, and drives to completion value-added projects (participation dependent on level of complexity.)
• Understands the implications of business strategy on project decisions.
• Responsible for weekly/monthly project status reports, delivery of timely conference reports.
• Sets up meetings, includes the correct people, and provides accurate agendas and precise, actionable meeting notes.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Established track record of successfully coordinating client initiatives.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience 2-5 years industry experience.
• Experience supporting integrated marking campaigns (including advertising, crm, digital, social media, SEO/SEM, and email marketing.)
• Proven ability to express self clearly and organize ideas well.
• Capable of presenting ideas/new opinions with confidence.
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced environment, and respond quickly as business factors shift.
• Ability to think strategically, creatively, and holistically about client opportunities.
• Has a passion for doing great work.
• May include travel.

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.

55,000-61,000 USD

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager.

Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent.

We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do.

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