Account Supervisor, College Athletics

horizonmedia; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Horizon Sports and Experiences seeks an Account Supervisor to lead an account team focused on college athletics. You will manage client projects, sponsorship activation and strategy, while working with vendor partners to exceed client expectations. The role reports to the Account Director and includes team mentorship.

You will drive client relationships, develop strategic plans, monitor budgets and ensure timely delivery across campaigns and partnerships.

Qualifications

• Strong project management skills and ability to lead multiple workstreams.
• Excellent client relationship building and stakeholder management.
• Strategic planning for campaigns and programming across properties.
• Budget oversight and financial reporting for client programs.
• Experience coordinating with vendors, rights holders and internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead account team and manage client portfolios, delivering campaigns on time and on budget.
• Ensure high-quality work across creative, media, and research departments.
• Develop and implement strategic plans to achieve client goals.
• Maintain strong relationships with clients, partners and vendors.
• Track campaign performance and report outcomes; identify new opportunities.
• Oversee production timelines and ensure timely delivery of assets.
• Manage billing and financial aspects of agreements with finance.
• Mentor and develop junior team members.

Skills

Project management

Client relationship

Strategic planning

Budget management

Vendor coordination

Job description

Job Description

The Account Supervisor oversees and manages the college athletics portfolio for a leading domestic telecommunications company. Their primary responsibility is to ensure that the agency delivers high-quality work that meets the client's needs while maintaining a positive relationship with the client. The role involves various responsibilities, such as managing client relationships, developing and implementing strategic plans to achieve client goals, overseeing the work of account executives and coordinators, and ensuring that projects are completed on time and within budget. Account Supervisors also work closely with other departments within the agency, such as creative, media, and research, to ensure that all work produced for the client is of the highest quality. They must effectively communicate with clients, agency team members, and vendors and have strong project management skills to ensure that all aspects of a project are completed successfully. Other key responsibilities of an Account Supervisor include tracking and reporting on campaign performance, identifying new business opportunities, and managing budgets and financial reports. They must also stay up to date with industry trends and best practices and be able to apply this knowledge to client accounts to achieve the best results.

Who We Are

Horizon Sports and Experiences (HS&E) was created to provide a differentiated and comprehensive approach for clients engaging in sports and experiential marketing. With a fully-integrated service model, HS&E includes a core focus on IP creation and monetization, strategic advisory and consulting, media rights, sponsorship, sales, and experiential strategy and activation - transforming marketers' ability to more seamlessly and effectively leverage their brand assets, content, and engagement strategies to drive increased growth.

What You'll Do

HS&E is seeking an Account Supervisor to further support our brand consulting practice. This position will report directly to the Account Director and lead an account team focused on college athletics - managing client projects, sponsorship activation & strategy and select new business efforts. The Supervisor will build and maintain relationships based on trust and collaboration across all appropriate client levels, properties, vendor partners and partner agencies with the fundamental objective of delivering on the client's goals and business needs in order to exceed client expectations. The Supervisor will also contribute to the professional growth of their direct report(s).

• 40% - Business Operations Lead the account team in the management and implementation of clients' marketing campaigns and client portfolios; supervise the creative and tactical development, as well as execution of, national and local market campaign deliverables, including (but not limited to) consumer promotions, sponsorship, social/digital, experiential/event activations
• Proactively anticipate both internal and client needs while delivering total quality control of final output across traditional advertising, sales materials, digital, social, and experiential
• Craft client briefs (defining business objectives inclusive of customer insights), and translating them into actionable marketing communications strategies and tactics
• Direct logistics and execution of partnerships, events and promotions with respective rights holders and vendors, with particular attention to developing and managing production timelines and overseeing delivery of integrated campaign assets
• Oversee general partnership operations, ensuring teams are working effectively, communicating efficiently and organizational structure is productive Proper delegation of day-to-day responsibilities to team members
• Utilize creative and innovative thinking skills to develop partnership concepts and strategies for clients
• Oversight of the financial execution of all agreements and contracts, ensuring all billing and payments are properly executed through the finance team
• Facilitate communication with internal counterparts, vendors, rights holders and upper management
• Build and maintain long-term business relationships (internal and external)
• 30% - Client Management & Strategic Leadership Develop, maintain and advance professional and personable relationships with clients and partner agencies at appropriate level
• Manage day-to-day communication and coordination between client (or Business Solutions team), rights holders and vendors
• Contribute to the development of client strategies and objectives
• Seek new partnership solutions to deliver on clients' goals and evaluate current health of client business via analysis of relevant business metrics (ROI/ROO); introduce advanced measurement solutions to help guide long-term activation approach and establish annual benchmarks for success
• Ensure client portfolios are being managed up to the highest standards
• 20% - Staff Development Contribute, build and maintain positive and dynamic