Account Supervisor

Fingerpaint Marketing, Inc.; Cedar Knolls (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Fingerpaint Marketing, Inc. is seeking an Account Supervisor to lead marketing strategy across client segments and oversee mid‑level client relationships, ensuring profitable project delivery.

The role requires commuting to Parsippany, NJ and collaborating with cross‑functional teams. Ideal candidates will demonstrate strong communication, multitasking, and leadership capabilities, with experience in pharmaceutical advertising and a track record of managing multiple campaigns from concept

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 4–5 years of pharmaceutical advertising agency experience.
• Active client service management.
• Experience with launches, positioning and multi-campaign work.

Responsibilities

• Oversee account team to drive and own projects from brief to deployment; ensure quality control.
• Oversee contract development and staffing plans with PMs and clients.
• Provide strategic direction at key steps of the creative process.
• Manage brand profitability and budget adherence.
• Immerse in client business to champion business-building ideas.
• Guide the client using brand and therapeutic area knowledge.
• Lead agency and client strategic sessions; craft outputs for the broader team.

Skills

Strong communication

Multitasking

Team leadership

Written & verbal skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Reset your expectations of a health and wellness agency. From our inception, Fingerpaint has been driven by an unstoppable collective spirit of possibility. It’s that curiosity that’s at the heart of everything we do. From our legendary people-first culture to the hundreds of Fingerpainters who define us, we’ve reimagined what it means to be a healthcare and wellness advertising agency. Here, creativity happens naturally—we attract top talent and collaborate.

The Opportunity: Role Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated and talented Account Supervisor to join our dynamic team. The Account Supervisor is responsible for driving marketing strategy across all segments, influences multiple or large-scale mid-level client relationships, and is responsible for managing the workload and profitability of the assigned business.

Note: Ability to commute to Parsippany, NJ is required.

Key Responsibilities

Core Function:

• Oversee account team to drive and own assigned projects/programs from creative brief development through deployment; ensure total quality control of final output to client.
• Oversee contract development and scope of work/staffing plan development and approval by collaborating with project management, department heads, and clients.
• Provide strategic direction and approvals at significant steps of the creative process (including positioning, messaging, campaign development, tactical development).
• Manage brand profitability by evaluating/discussing financial reports to ensure projects are completed within budget and make recommendations to ensure revenue is achieved.
• Immerse self in client business to champion stellar, business-building ideas and know how to effectively collaborate to bring those ideas to life.
• Manage the account by appropriately guiding, instructing, and focusing the client using advanced knowledge of brand(s) and therapeutic area.
• Actively participate in and/or lead agency and client strategic sessions; generate output to be shared with broader team.

What You'll Bring: Required Qualifications

• Education:
  • Bachelor’s degree.
• Experience:
  • 4 to 5 years of pharmaceutical advertising agency experience.
  • Active client service management, working directly with clients and executing projects.
  • Demonstrate success in getting a brand through a whole cycle with varied experiences, such as POA, launch, positioning, new campaign, conventions, etc.

Specialized Knowledge:

• Familiarity with pharmaceutical medical, legal, regulatory (MLR) review process and systems.
• Understand FDA rules/regulations and life cycle of a brand.
• Solid grasp of brand operations: understanding the nuts and bolts of the account (brand style guide, PRC process, key data, etc).
• Understand the core strategic elements of the development of a multichannel strategy.
• Excellent understanding of the digital marketplace and ad formats.

Skills:

• Demonstrate strong written and verbal skills.
• Highly effective communication skills.
• Strong multitasker: ability to run multiple projects, priorities, and client demands.
• Management of junior staff.

Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Have)

• Understanding of capabilities within the media group and Shift.
• Understanding of Fingerpaint platform offering to contribute to developing client’s business.
• Advanced degree (e.g., Master's, PharmD, PhD).

Fingerpaint Group provides equal employment [and affirmative action] opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.

Fingerpaint Group provides equal employment [and affirmative action] opportunities to all applicants and employees. We are proud to recruit qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or citizenship status.