Strategic Account Executive — Hybrid Chicago

Socket.dev; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 57,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

The Kitchen is seeking an Account Executive to join the North America team in Chicago on a hybrid basis. You will support the Accounts team on small to mid-size programs and collaborate closely with brand teams, production, and creative partners to ensure flawless project delivery.

Ideal candidates bring 1–2 years in advertising, strong communication, organization and problem-solving skills, plus familiarity with O365 and social/digital media.

Qualifications

• 1-2 years in the advertising industry.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Adaptability and strong problem solving skills.
• Excellent active listening & time management skills.
• Ability to build rapport and collaborate with others internally and externally.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Keen interest in consumer behaviours and industry trends.
• Strong foundational technology skills – familiarity with O365, social & digital media.
• Passion for advertising & social media.

Responsibilities

• Communicating with brand teams to understand their needs, deliver information back to your direct manager and team, and execute accordingly.
• Timeline and communication management, and booking internal meetings/reviews on your projects to brand teams.
• Maintaining updated knowledge of brand teams’ business and business objectives.
• Identifying and informing on industry trends.
• Acting as an extension of your brand team throughout planning, execution and wrap up – always keeping your brand team’s needs top of mind.
• Collaborating with your direct team to facilitate brand team needs and provide feedback/direction.
• Working closely with partners to ensure they have all the tools & information required to support your business.
• Working with your manager to develop and support you where/when required.
• Liaising with your manager on a regular basis, ensuring they are aware of your activities, informed on brand team updates and can support you as required.
• Reconciling all sizes of program budgets; staying in close contact with the finance team as required.
• Staying on budget in all circumstances, and ability to recognize when a budget may not be sufficient and communicating this to your manager.
• Ability to review small to medium budgets with clients, working with your manager to provide a detailed overview of budget breakdown and pricing rationale.
• Master all details within a project to ensure it is run smoothly.
• Working with all departments (creative, production, strategy) and our project management software to develop timelines, ensure projects are tracking against it successfully and any changes or updates are communicated to teams and brand partners as they occur.
• Proactively identify process improvement opportunities and work with team on agile problem solutions.
• Supporting teams and committees within The Kitchen to create positive culture and test/implement new policies, procedures, and processes

Skills

Verbal and written communication

Time management

Organizational skills

Adaptability

Problem solving

Relationship building

Familiarity with O365

Social media skills

Tools

O365

Job description

The Kitchen is seeking an Account Executive to join the North America team in Chicago on a hybrid basis. You will support the Accounts team on small to mid-size programs and collaborate closely with brand teams, production, and creative partners to ensure flawless project delivery.

Ideal candidates bring 1–2 years in advertising, strong communication, organization and problem-solving skills, plus familiarity with O365 and social/digital media.