Elevation Marketing is a mid-sized, full-service marketing communications agency, located in Gilbert, Arizona. Our client roster includes 45 companies with revenues of over $1B annually and a variety of other small and medium sized companies. We are in growth mode and are adding to our team of outstanding, high-performing, ultra-driven, highly-collaborative team members to keep up with our clients and their demands on us.

We’re looking for a seasoned Sr. Account Manager with solid agency experience. This position’s ultimate responsibility is to work with our team and our clients to help guide clients through their engagement with our agency while ensuring the alignment of B2B marketing strategies with overall business goals for each client they serve.

The position will help manage, plan, develop and execute marcom programs for national and international B2B clients. If you’re a motivated, high-quality thinker with 7 years of agency experience who is willing to bend-over-backwards to help our clients achieve their goals, please get in touch with us. You’ll find the work interesting, energizing and challenging.

Due to the highly collaborative nature of agency work, this job is not remote and is based in our beautiful Gilbert office (Phoenix Area). The agency does provide two work from home days (or four half days) a month plus a solid PTO program and other agency benefits. The agency is also closed for a week from Christmas through New Year’s.

Key Responsibilities

• Account Leadership: the ability to lead small and medium sized B2B clients and their businesses plus working as a team on larger accounts to help drive strategic and tactical execution with little oversight.
• Marketing Leadership – working with others inside the agency, develop B2B marketing plans, managing small research and branding projects and bringing marketing-based solution to the table to help clients met their objectives with little oversight.
• Budgets : Manage budgets of small and large clients, up to $3MM annually.
• Account & Project Management: With a small amount of oversight, manage projects, campaigns and budgets to ensure that projects and campaigns meet clients and agency expectations.
• Review & Delivery of Agency Output – reviewing and authorizing final deliverables for clients to ensure they are on brand, on strategy and on message with little oversight.
• Client and Staff Communication – staying connected to agencies clients and to the account staff and teams they serve to meet the fast-changing needs that arise around delivering great B2B work.
• In Account & New Business Growth – Helping support new client opportunities as sourced by the business and account services team.

More Details

• Serve as proactive communication conduit between Clients, traffic managers and strategy
• Prepare project briefs/plan for internal and external teams
• Manage large and small budgets
• Regular communication with clients and Elevation staff on project/account status
• Involvement in regular account meetings, new business presentations
• Assist in the writing of SOW’, project and creative briefs.
• Co-manage budgets and projects
• Ensure client satisfaction and swift problem resolution
• Work with multiple team members including digital, creative, pr, social, conet and others to help execute projects and campaigns.
• Make decisions based on company standards with no oversight

Experience and Skill Sets

• 5 years of proven account and client management skills. If you don’t have agency experience, then please do not apply for this position.
• Degree in marketing, advertising, journalism, communications or related field
• Ability to communicate and present with energy and certainty to clients, internal staff and the executive team
• Competence in independently initiating and executing both online and offline marcom efforts
• Problem solver
• Outgoing personality with ability to build, maintain and grow client relationships
• Excellent multi-tasker
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, be a self-starter and learn quickly, thoroughly and in detail
• Expertise in the ability to lead and foster successful lines of communication
• Experience with Workamajig project management software is a plus
• Ability to provide tracking/reporting metrics for clients
• Must be able to react and adjust to change quickly environment

About Our Values

Over time, we find that employees who live out our values, enjoy their experience and stay and prosper over a long period of time at Elevation. We try to live out the following values each and every day. We are not perfect, but we try:

People : Each employee, partner and client deserves to reach their full potential.

Integrity: Honesty, truth-telling, and transparency must always exist.

Collaboration: Creating great marketing relies on each stakeholder to fully engage in the process without personal, professional or relational roadblocks.

Results: As individuals, we own our successes, the success of our fellow employees and the success of our clients.

Evolution: With purpose, as individuals and as an agency, we embrace tomorrow’s opportunities through continuous planning, self-assessment, training, learning, and activation.

Compensation and Benefits

Elevation strives to provide some of the best agency compensation and benefit packages in the great southwest. The job is in Gilbert, AZ (just off the Loop 202 expressway) and less than one mile from over 50 restaurants. Our business is all about collaboration, so we do not offer telecommuting currently, but we do offer flex hours depending on the position and clients. Employees can start at any time between 7 AM and 9 AM and finish between 4 PM and 6 PM based on client demands and department structure. Elevation pays for 95% of employee’s life, health and long-term disability insurance. Elevation offers vision, dental and a variety of other benefits that an employee can purchase. The kitchen area is full of free snacks and beverages. Tuition reimburse