Account Executive in New York, New York at Hill Holliday

The Account Executive will be responsible for:

• Consistent support of day-to-day business activities to ensure efficient communication and flow of work. Management of smaller business activities and work streams.

• Acting as the day-to-day project contact with lower level clients, creative teams, internal teams and other agency partners, building and maintaining relationships grounded in accountability and trust.

• Showing curiosity for our client’s business and the category. Supporting the internal agency teams in the upfront strategic process, using insights to solve business problems.

• Developing and exhibiting category and client business expertise and managing the evaluation of competitive sets, consumer and cultural trends, new work and updates.

• Contributing to the development, packaging of presentation of new ideas or opportunities for client review.

• Partnering with internal teams to manage “the making” and delivery of great work, managing multiple smaller projects and supporting more senior leads on larger projects from end-to-end.

• Project managing smaller projects, workflow system data entry and reporting, basic understanding of staffing and scoping. Supporting on client financials; monitoring and managing up on staffing or scoping implications on projects.

Skills:

Leadership:

• Individual contributor with developed leadership skills.

• Able to comfortably shift work priorities when things change.

• Proactively seeks out answers and solutions.

• Articulate and thoughtful written and verbal communication.

Collaboration:

• Experience collaborating positively and effectively with internal or external partners and clients.

• Enjoys working with different people who bring new ideas to the table.

Accountability for Results:

• Takes ownership of projects and deliverables.

• Strong contributor to on-time, on-budget quality execution.

• Proactively identifies and communicates opportunities to improve work and processes.

Desired Experience:

• 2-3+ years of experience in an advertising agency

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications or related field