Sr. Manager, Key Accounts Marketing

Athene; West Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Athene in Des Moines invites an experienced Senior Manager, Key Accounts Marketing to lead a team delivering marketing strategies for Athene's key distribution partners. You'll translate Sales and Marketing priorities into cohesive account plans, guiding campaigns and activations that deepen relationships and drive growth.

Working across Sales, Distribution, Product Marketing, Creative, Content, Digital, Analytics and Compliance, you will connect insights, remove barriers, and empower your team

Qualifications

• 6+ years of marketing experience, including leadership, with complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience driving strategies for financial services distribution and partnerships.
• Strong business acumen to translate priorities into account plans and campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Lead marketing strategy for key accounts and distribution partners.
• Develop and coach a high-performing marketing team.
• Coordinate cross-functional delivery across Sales, Product Marketing, Creative, Analytics, and Compliance.
• Turn insights into action using data, testing, and AI-enabled tools to improve performance.
• Align account plans with Retail and Marketing objectives.

Skills

Strategic marketing

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Executive communication

AI fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, or related field

Tools

AI-enabled tools

Job description

We are driven to do more. More for our customers and the financial professionals who offer our products. If you are driven to do more and love the challenge of pursuing more, Athene is your kind of company. You will find we offer more than the basics to create an inclusive and dynamic work environment at our various locations.

Purpose:

The Senior Manager, Key Accounts Marketing will lead the team responsible for developing and delivering marketing strategies for Athene's key distribution partners. You'll translate Sales, Marketing, and business priorities into cohesive account and channel plans—creating clarity across initiatives while empowering your team to own partner-specific strategies, campaigns, and activations that deepen relationships and support growth.

This is an opportunity to amplify the impact of a high-performing marketing team at a growing retirement services leader. Working across Sales, Distribution, Product, Analytics, and Marketing, you'll connect insights, align priorities, remove barriers, and identify new ways to engage financial professionals. You'll also operate within Athene's differentiated relationship with Apollo, bringing together scale, investment and retirement expertise, and a shared focus on innovation and long-term growth.

Accountabilities:

• Lead Key Accounts Marketing strategy. Establish the team's vision, annual strategy, and marketing plan within Athene's broader marketing strategy, translating business and distribution priorities into partner-specific campaigns, financial professional engagement, sales enablement, and activation programs.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team. Create clarity, accountability, and an inclusive environment while empowering team members to own account and channel strategies, stakeholder relationships, recommendations, and execution. Coach and develop talent, encourage experimentation and continuous learning, and recognize individual and team contributions.
• Manage and prioritize the marketing portfolio. Establish an effective operating rhythm across planned and active initiatives, balancing priorities, resources, capacity, dependencies, risks, and timelines. Anticipate barriers, make thoughtful tradeoffs, and move with urgency to keep the highest-impact work progressing.
• Serve as a strategic marketing connector and thought partner. Help the team pressure-test strategies, navigate ambiguity, and connect individual account plans to broader Retail and Marketing objectives. Bring together cross-functional partners to creatively identify new engagement, innovation, and growth opportunities.
• Orchestrate cross-functional marketing delivery. Build strong relationships across Sales, Distribution, Product Marketing, Creative, Content, Digital, Analytics, Compliance, Operations, and other capabilities to align resources and deliver coordinated, multichannel marketing solutions.
• Turn insights into action and improve performance. Identify audience needs, patterns, and growth opportunities across accounts and channels; establish clear measures of success; and use data, analytics, AI-enabled tools, testing, and campaign learnings to improve decisions, scale effective approaches, and strengthen future marketing performance.

Qualifications and Experience:

• 6+ years of relevant marketing experience; including 3+ years of formal or informal leadership, with experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives, developing others, and driving results in financial services, insurance, intermediary distribution, or another complex business environment, or relevant experience, preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to develop integrated marketing strategies, translate business and sales objectives into actionable priorities, and manage a portfolio of complex initiatives, stakeholders, resources, dependencies, and competing demands.
• Strong business acumen and understanding of how marketing can drive sales growth, strengthen distribution partnerships, engage financial professionals, and deliver measurable business results; experience in annuities, retirement, or financial services distribution is strongly preferred.
• Exceptional strategic thinking, critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, and executive communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information, identify opportunities, evaluate tradeoffs, create structure in ambiguity, and influence senior stakeholders.
• A people-centered, growth-oriented leadership approach with a bias for action and demonstrated ability to empower others, build trust and inclusion, coach and develop talent, adapt quickly, encourage creativity and innovation, and promote sound judgment and a risk-aware, ethical culture. Curiosity about emerging technologies and practical AI fluency - knowing when and how AI can improve marketing effectiveness is important.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent experience. Ability to travel occasionally based on business needs.

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