We're looking for an Account Supervisor to drive the day to day activity across our clients’ integrated marketing communications programs for consumer brands across food, wellness, lifestyle, CPG, and retail brands.  

This is an early leadership role for someone who thrives at intersection of strategy, creativity, and execution. You'll serve as a trusted advisor to clients, inspire teams to think bigger, and guide programs that seamlessly bring together storytelling, media relations, influencer marketing, experiential activations, social, partnerships, and brand moments that spark conversation and drive results.  

The ideal candidate is an exceptional client counselor, a collaborative team player, and a strategic thinker who knows how to navigate complexity while keeping teams energized and focused. You'll help support account growth and integrated planning, manage scopes and operations, mentor rising talent, and champion work that pushes beyond the expected.  

Just as importantly, you'll help shape the culture of our practice. We value people who ask great questions, embrace new perspectives, experiment with fresh ideas, and believe that the strongest teams are built on trust, generosity, and a shared sense of purpose. We work hard, celebrate wins, learn from every challenge, and genuinely enjoy creating great work together.  

If you're energized by fast-moving brands, love turning insights into experiences, and want to help define what's next for modern brand communications, we'd love to meet you.  

Key Responsibilities 

• Serve as a day-to-day account lead, driving account teams in delivering outstanding client experiences across consumer brands and helping manage client priorities, workstreams, timelines, deliverables, budgets, and team responsibilities. 

• Support account strategy and tactical execution across integrated programs, ensuring work connects to the broader brand story, business goals, cultural moments, and measurable outcomes. 

• Build trusted relationships with clients by understanding their needs, expectations, business objectives, competitive landscape, and category dynamics. 

• Provide thoughtful client counsel and clear recommendations, bringing solutions - not just updates - to account conversations and helping teams anticipate client needs. 

• Manage multiple projects from planning through execution, proactively identifying roadblocks, troubleshooting challenges, proposing solutions, and keeping work moving with confidence. 

• Oversee and/or lead account management processes including of status reports, agendas, recaps, trackers, timelines, budget trackers, scopes, and client-ready materials. 

• Oversee quality and operational performance of assigned accounts, ensuring deliverables areaccurate, polished, strategically sound, on time, and aligned with client expectations.

• Contribute to integrated earned media strategy by helping develop story angles, pitch approaches, media lists, briefing materials,monitoringreports, and coverage recaps that ladder up to client goals.

• Build andmaintainmedia relationships across relevant consumer verticals such as lifestyle, parenting, food, wellness, retail, broadcast, podcast, newsletter, and creator-led platforms.

• Support influencer andcreatorworkstreams, including research, outreach, briefing materials, social content, creative briefs, contracting support, and relationship management as appropriate.

• Provide on-the-ground and project leadership for product launches, media moments, experiential activations, influencer campaigns, brand events, and other integrated programs.

• Collaborate closely with internal creative, strategy, media, social, influencer, and account teams to ensure work ladders up to the larger client strategy and delivers against shared goals.

• Monitor trends, communities, cultural conversations, competitors, and category news, distilling insights intotimely, ownable opportunities for clients and the broader BX practice.

• Collaborate with the BX team and the wider Ruder Finn global network across select clients, projects, and integrated workstreams. 

• Take ownership of assigned tasks, ask smart questions, flag issues early, and offer solutions or alternatives when challenges arise. 

• Contribute to the positive, collaborative, and supportive culture and spirit of the Brand Experience practice. 

• Mentor and manage junior team members by delegating effectively, setting clear expectations, reviewing work, providing actionable feedback, and helping them strengthen account management, writing, media instincts, and client judgment.

• Support organic growth andbusiness developmentefforts through research, competitive analysis, landscape audits, brainstorm participation, pitch deck development, smart ideas, and category perspective.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in communications, journalism, marketing, or a related field preferred.

• You have 4+ years of experience in public relations, integrated communications, brand marketing, or a related field, preferably within an agency environment and with consumer or brand experience clients.

• You have experience supporting or leading integrated consumer communications programs that may include earned media, influencer marketing, experiential activations, social, partnerships, content, and brand storytelling.

• You bring consumer brand experience or strong interest across categories such as CPG, food, wellness, lifestyle, parenting, retail, consumer tech, or adjacent sectors.

• You understand how client strategy, media, creative ideas, cultural relevance, and account operations come together to drive results.

• You are comfortable managing client relationships, leading day-to-day communications, presenting recommendations, and building trust with client stakeholders.

• You have strong media instincts and experience developing pitches, media lists, briefing materials,monitoringreports, and earned-first ideas that support larger client objectives.

• You are a strong writer and editor who can develop and refine client materials, internal correspondence, plans, presentations, press materials, and reports with accuracy and polish.

• You are highly organized and can manage multiple projects, deadlines, budgets, and shifting priorities while keeping clients and teams aligned.

• You are proactive and solutions-oriented, able toidentifypotential issues, bring thoughtful recommendations, and elevate challenges appropriately.

• You have experience mentoring or managing junior team members and enjoy helping others build confidence, judgment, and skills.

• You are nimble and resilient in fast-moving environments where priorities shift, timelines change, and teams need clarity and momentum.

• You are curious about integrating AI tools into communications planning, research, workflows, and team processes in thoughtful, responsible ways.

Benefits & More  

• You will receive a competitive base salary and bonus opportunity  

• You will also be able to enroll in our Health, Dental, Vision, company paid Life Insurance, Flexible Spending Account, as well as 401k (match) plan.  

• Monthly allowance for cell phone, office equipment, etc.  

• Generous PTO policy with paid maternity/paternity leave  

• Professional learning and development opportunities  

• Workplace flexibility  

• On-site and off-site social gatherings  

The anticipated salary range for this position, at the time of posting, is $80,000 - $95,000. The salary of the applicant selected for this role will be based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, education, internal equity, geography, relevant years of experience, certifications, skills, abilities of the selected applicant, and other job-related qualifications. In addition, a range of medical, dental, vision, disability, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and/or other benefits also are available by the company.