Account Supervisor

Omnicom; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom seeks an Account Supervisor in Food, Ag & Nutrition to lead client relationships and drive integrated marketing programs. This role focuses on strategic planning, budget oversight, and coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver timely, creative campaigns.

You will develop media pitches, press releases, and client communications while ensuring projects stay on scope and within budget. This is an on-site role with in-office expectations at a prominent Omnicom agency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, PR, journalism, marketing or a related field.
• Experience in public relations agency or similar role with strong writing ability.
• Proven project management and budget handling skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as point of contact for key clients and manage accounts.
• Plan and lead integrated marketing projects with timelines and budgets.
• Develop media pitches, press materials, and client communications.
• Collaborate with creative, production teams, and vendors to meet schedules and budgets.
• Brief teams and support strategic planning and client business insights.
• Drive content for meetings, events, and media relations; manage financials.

Skills

Account management

Public relations

Project management

Writing skills

Budget management

Client relations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Communications or related field

Job description

Agency: Ketchum Job Function: Consulting Job Subfunction: Business and Change Consulting Job Description: Golin Ketchum is looking for an Account Supervisor, Food, Ag & Nutrition to join our team! Golin Ketchum is the most awarded public relations agency of the decade. We create change that matters for our clients and our people. The kind of change that earns attention and shapes culture to build business. Formed in 2026 from the merger of two iconic PR agencies, Golin Ketchum combines fearless creative and strategic excellence, fueled by Omnicom’s industry-leading data and AI solutions, to uncover powerful insights and execute work that builds and protects the world’s greatest companies. With specialized expertise across consumer and brands, corporate affairs, healthcare, technology, and food, agriculture and nutrition, we deliver integrated, high-impact communications services at scale. At Golin Ketchum, culture matters. We are fiercely ambitious yet fundamentally kind and collaborate obsessively with the best clients in the world.

Want to create change that matters with us? Here are the details:

What You’ll Do

• Serve as point of contact for key clients
• Plan and lead integrated marketing projects; drive timelines and budgets
• Develop full range of written materials including media pitches, press releases, website updates, proposals, client correspondence and tracking reports
• Work closely with creative and production teams and outside vendors to execute print and digital projects so that they come in on schedule and on budget
• Brief media, creative and research staff and assist with the formulation of marketing strategies that meet the client’s creative brief
• Continually build understanding and knowledge of clients' business, competitive environments
• Provide strategic and creative ideas; engage in strategic planning on clients’ business and agency business
• Drive content for client meetings, industry events and trade shows, promotions, media relations
• Proven ability to manage account financials and maintain budget status reports

What You Have

We’re looking for required skills, and they can come from any combination of education and experience. Diversity of thought and background are encouraged.

Typical qualifications include:

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, English, Marketing or a related field preferred
• Five- seven years of experience in public relations agency or similar position
• Very strong project management and writing skills required
• Experience in B2B marketing a plus. Including foodservice, retail, ingredient (manufacturing) marketing and agricultural communications

Golin Ketchum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Golin Ketchum recruits 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.

$80,000 - $100,000

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. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together.

Join us—we look forward to getting to know you.

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