Senior Creative Account Manager

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

Job summary

Tag is seeking a Sr. Account Manager, Creative Services to oversee client briefs from inception to completion, ensuring quality and adherence to budgets and timelines. You will coordinate with designers and vendors, and serve as the primary communications conduit for project updates.

You will manage client relationships, assess needs, provide recommendations, and help optimize workflows and service delivery while tracking costs and revenue performance.

Responsibilities

• Oversee briefs from start to completion, ensuring quality at every stage.
• Manage the client relationship, assessing needs, making recommendations and managing budget and timeline.
• Be the central conduit for all project communication and status updates.
• Interact with graphic designer team as well as external print and production vendors to oversee project delivery from start to completion.
• Use creativity to solve client communications challenges, resolve service delivery issues and improve productivity.
• Identify and troubleshoot technological bottlenecks in workflow and/or asset management systems.
• Work closely with the design director to ensure designs are branded properly and meet highest quality standards.
• Resolve issues escalated by the client and communicate significant issues to the Director.
• Use feedback from monthly and quarterly client meetings to meet client expectations.
• Advise customers as to potential benefits, features and capabilities of new or revised services and service enhancements.
• Build relationships with end users; manage their perception and expectations.
• Accurately quote all jobs and keep the client updated regularly with any additional costs.
• Invoice all projects on final delivery.
• Be accountable for overall financial performance of projects against budget.
• Assist department and clients with budgeting process.
• Assist in preparing and reviewing the monthly invoices.
• Follow up with client on overdue invoices,
• Meet monthly financial duties as described in the Accounting Close calendar.
• Forecast monthly results at the mid-month timeframe.
• Develop and analyze the monthly performance and progress reports, including expense management and achievement of financial targets.
• Provide valuable input for monthly and quarterly client meetings; preparing data/content and be able to present to Senior Client Sponsors.
• Assist Director with KPI reporting
• Ensure contract, pro-forma and other internal controls compliance.
• Understand financial targets, analyze trends, identify shortfalls, and help to create action plans to recover revenue or cut expense.
• Act as the initial escalation point for client
• Develop, mentor and train Account Coordinators & Account Managers.
• Seek opportunities to expand services with the client
• Maintain close contact with Client Services team who are also on the same account and provide input into Account Plans

Job description

Tag is seeking a Sr. Account Manager, Creative Services to oversee client briefs from inception to completion, ensuring quality and adherence to budgets and timelines. You will coordinate with designers and vendors, and serve as the primary communications conduit for project updates.

You will manage client relationships, assess needs, provide recommendations, and help optimize workflows and service delivery while tracking costs and revenue performance.