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Senior Account Manager

Ovative Group
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 1/22/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/22/2025

Minneapolis / New York City / Chicago / Remote

729 Washington Ave N

Minneapolis, MN 55401, USA

Ovative Group is the premier independent media and measurement firm in the United States. We help trailblazers in fast-growing, customer-centric organizations across industries reinvent their marketing and measurement programs. We leverage our media, measurement, and consulting capabilities to help brands like Domino’s, Facebook, The Home Depot, CVS, Disney, and UnitedHealth Group transform their media and marketing programs. Our proprietary approach to measuring and optimizing marketing investment decisions, Enterprise Marketing Return (EMR), is disrupting the industry and setting the gold standard for customer and marketing strategy, activation, and measurement.

Recognized eight consecutive years on Star Tribune’s list of Top 150 Workplaces and five years on Inc. 5000’s list of the fastest-growing private companies in America, we pride ourselves in always overdelivering for our clients, our teams, and our communities.

About the Role :

Digital Marketing is a critical part of every consumer journey, but many companies only measure its impact on their digital outcomes. Our approach to digital media optimization at Ovative Group can’t be found anywhere else. We measure and optimize marketing campaigns at the enterprise level, both online and offline. Our clients are household names that span multiple industries, including retail, healthcare, education, CPG, and hospitality.

The Ovative Group Senior Account Manager position offers the right candidate the opportunity to take on an early stage, leadership role at a fast-growing company that has the highest standards for talent, fun, and client success. The ideal candidate will be highly analytical, hold strong client management and communication skills, and have experience leading strategies across cross-functional teams to drive business impact.

This position will play a pivotal role in helping Ovative continue its journey toward measuring and optimizing media to the true enterprise impact, not solely ecommerce value.

Responsibilities of a Senior Account Manager, Client Services :

  • Cross-functional strategy & thought leadership :

Drive forward multi-channel digital media strategies and roadmaps that align with client program growth goals.

  • Manage documentation and tracking of account priorities on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis.
  • Be the expert on marketing budgets, media mix, and performance KPIs, at a broad and channel-specific level, to support account-wide strategy, problem solving & decision making.
  • Lead regular and ad hoc performance analyses and translate into clear insights to communicate to clients.
  • Lead cross-functional performance-based marketing strategy projects by providing media expertise and thought leadership.
  • Lead and provide structure to problem-solving sessions to help determine the problem at stake, the results needed, and the most effective route to get there.
  • Keep abreast of emerging digital marketing trends and technologies.
  • Client relationship management :
  • Develop, manage and grow relationships with some of Ovative Group’s largest clients by engaging on a regular basis with day to day and senior client leaders, partnering to develop client growth strategies, and delivering great enterprise media outcomes that drive client objectives.

  • Become an extension of the client’s team by having a deep understanding of their business, industry, metrics & team, and striving to be the best interaction of their day.
  • Effectively manage client relationships and establish trust and credibility.
  • Team leadership and employee development :
  • Lead cross-functional teams of subject matter experts focused on driving results for clients, retaining and growing assigned accounts.

  • Foster a culture of open communication and 360-degree feedback.
  • Manage direct reports and contribute to a development culture that recruits and develops world class talent.
  • Requirements :

  • 7 years of experience directly responsible for leading cross-functional business strategies through clear communication, structured problem-solving skills, and project management ownership.
  • Strong analytical skillset with experience analyzing and leveraging large datasets on a daily, weekly, monthly basis to inform strategic recommendations and action.
  • Ability to drive in ambiguous environments, applying structure to open ended challenges and navigating through to drive client impact.
  • Experience in e-commerce, digital marketing, customer data and insights, customer strategy, MarTech, or other marketing discipline.
  • Preferred :

  • Digital agency experience.
  • Media planning and buying experience.
  • Experience across both branding and direct response initiatives.
  • Pay Transparency :

    At Ovative, we offer a transparent view into three core components of your total compensation package : Base Salary, Annual Bonus, and Benefits. The salary range for this position below is inclusive of an annual bonus. Actual offers are made with consideration for relevant experience and anticipated impact. Additional benefits information is provided below.

    For our Sr. Manager positions, our compensation ranges from $111,000 to $186,000, which is inclusive of a 25% bonus.

    Benefits of Working at Ovative Group :

    We provide strong, competitive, holistic benefits that understand the importance of your life inside and out of work.

    Culture :

    Culture matters and we’ve been recognized as a Top Workplace for eight years running because of it. We demand trust and transparency from each other. We believe in doing the hard and complicated work others put off. We’re open in communication and floor plan. We’re flat – our interns sit next to VPs, our analysts work closely with senior leaders, and our CEO interacts with every single person daily. Put together, these elements help foster an environment where smart people can support each other in performing to their highest potential.

    Compensation and Insurance :

    We strive to hire and retain the best talent. Paying fair, competitive compensation, with a large bonus incentive, and phenomenal health insurance is an important part of this mix.

    We’re rewarded fairly and when the company performs well, we all benefit.

    Tangible amenities we enjoy :

  • Access to all office spaces in MSP, NYC, and CHI.
  • Frequent, paid travel to our Minneapolis headquarters for company events, team events, and in-person collaboration with teams.
  • 401k match program.
  • Top-notch health insurance options.
  • Monthly stipend for your mobile phone and data plan.
  • Sabbatical program.
  • Charitable giving via our time and a financial match program.
  • Working at Ovative won’t be easy, but if you like getting your hands dirty, driving results, and being surrounded by the best talent, it’ll be the most rewarding job you’ll ever have. If you think you can make us better, we want to hear from you!

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