Company Location: Two Rivers Marketing - Des Moines, IA
Position Type: Hybrid
Position Schedule: Full Time
Education Level: 4 Year Degree

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR

The primary responsibility of the Account Manager is to work closely with the Account Director and Account Supervisor to ensure that all initiatives, campaigns, and projects are managed on-brand and on-strategy. The Account Manager maintains active communication with their client contacts through ongoing status and client delivery meetings, consistently managing clients’ expectations and revisions, and identifying out-of-scope requests. The Account Manager documents client communications and status meeting debriefs, delivering them to the internal team to keep them updated and informed. Additionally, the Account Manager is responsible for monitoring project financial metrics.

WHAT OUR ACCOUNT MANAGER WILL DO ONCE THEY'RE HERE

• Demonstrates an awareness of core agency service offerings/capabilities
• Demonstrates basic knowledge of program/campaign architecture and estimate structures
• Demonstrates thorough knowledge of project architecture and estimate structures
• Ensures accurate and complete collection of client assets
• Maintains basic knowledge of their clients' industry/segment
• Maintains basic knowledge of clients and their consumer profiles
• Maintains awareness of clients' competitors and informs team as applicable
• Maintains awareness of scope creep and notifies Account Director/Account Supervisor
• Manages project budgets
• Facilitates weekly client-facing status meeting (strategy)
• Maintains successful client relationships
• Ensures successful execution of their clients' projects
• Owns client advocate communication
• Ensures that deliverables undergo internal approval process before being presented to client and are proofread as necessary
• Manages overall strategic quality and correctness of deliverables
• Effectively presents agency work to clients
• Manages project financial metrics
• Demonstrates basic understanding of the client's organizational structure and operations
• Ensures accuracy of client contacts for agency
• Builds and maintains internal filing for client assets
• Maintains professional internal and external relationships that meet agency core values
• Complete timesheet on a daily basis
• Other relevant duties to position as assigned

WHAT OUR ACCOUNT MANAGER WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

• 2 years of account management experience
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, journalism or related field
• Marketing agency experience is required
• Demonstrated knowledge of one or more agency capabilities/offerings Experience drafting client project proposals and SOWs
• Experience with researching requirements for project goals and benchmarking
• Experience in successfully managing clients through complex projects
• Experience in project financial management and analysis
• Demonstrated ability to provide tactical solutions to client business objectives

WHY TWO RIVERS MARKETING (A DIVISION OF VGM, GROUP)

Professionally, we're big enough to give you the opportunity to work with global B2B brands and move up in the ranks in a stable, growing company. Culturally, 2RM does things differently than typical shops. As an employee-owned agency, we put our associates first. Our commitment to work/life balance is like none other. At 2RM, you don't feel owned by your job. Like we always say, you won't live here. You'll thrive here. Our values drive how we work and who we hire. You will see these values ingrained in how we support our customers and work with team members in the work enviornment we've created.

This job description reflects the general duties of the job but is not a detailed description of all duties which may be inherent to the position. Reasonably related additional duties may be assigned to the individual Associate.

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