Harrison and Star

Account Supervisor

Harrison and Star$90K — $116K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • College Degree in marketing, advertising, communications, or science/medicine.
  • 4 years of Agency or relevant experience.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills, particularly in creating documents like Creative Briefs.
  • Ability to handle senior-level Client contact with maturity.
  • Understanding of business principles and practices.
  • Extensive knowledge and experience in marketing and advertising.
  • Proven ability to manage and train team members, including prioritizing creative efforts.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee the tactical development and execution of brand strategies.
  • Provide ideas to enhance creative processes and existing campaign executions.
  • Identify key issues and recommend tactical and strategic solutions.
  • Perform competitive analysis and generate strategic insights for brand management.
  • Maintain proactive client communication, ensuring awareness of account developments.
  • Foster a positive team environment and establish credibility within the team and with clients.
  • Supervise junior team members, guiding their professional growth and project involvement.

Benefits

  • Inclusive team culture that values diversity and individual differences.
  • Focus on professional development and continuous improvement.
  • Commitment to mentoring and guiding junior staff.
  • Emphasis on maintaining a positive, productive work atmosphere.
Full Job Description
Agency:
Remedy Edge

Job Function:
Account Management and Growth

Job Subfunction:
Account Management

Job Description:
The Account Supervisor oversees the tactical development and implementation of the brand, while contributing to its strategic direction. The Account Supervisor position moves beyond daily project management tasks and into strategic brand management. The Account Supervisor will also supervise, motivate and mentor more junior account team members.

Primary Job Responsibilities
Understand the creative process and provide ideas for improving existing executions

Ability to see the big picture, identify key issues, and provide proactive tactical and strategic recommendations

Demonstrate mastery of brand category and competitive data, including key studies

Seek non-traditional solutions to marketing/marketplace problems

Internalized marketplace events, market research, etc., and develop and communicate strategic/tactical recommendations for the brand

Oversee/manage the tactical plan development process, while contributing to tactical plan design:

Communicate key client issues/initiatives to team

Oversee creation of competitive review

Generate key issues/objectives/strategies

Supervise development of tactics/budget/timing

Manage internal approval process

Keep senior management briefed on account activities

Foster a positive and productive team atmosphere and establish credibility both internally and externally

Facilitate and maximize client relationships

Maintain regular client contact at all levels and become integral part of client team, ensuring that the client is updated and briefed on all relevant account activity

Ensure that all agency work represents the best we have to offer -- strategically sound, arresting creative, error-free

Ensure that client is perceived positively within agency

Understand the client's perspective and challenges, and communicate these to the entire agency team

Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the client's business and actively seek opportunities for further account development

Foster client understanding of the agency's needs and perspective

Establish credibility with clients at all levels

Additional Responsibilities
Communicate effectively and professionally both internally and externally

Demonstrate good problem-solving and interpersonal skills

Demonstrate ability to set priorities while handling multiple projects and to delegate work appropriately

Remain calm despite high pressure situations

Project a professional, positive attitude toward peers and clients within the department and the agency

Embody service-oriented attitude and uphold quality standards in servicing the client

Maintain accurate time sheets

Foster a positive team atmosphere demonstrating respect for peers and supervisors

Assist other members of department/team as needed when workload allows

Foster senior level partnerships with creative/account colleague

Understand when it's appropriate to make decisions independently and when to escalate issues/decisions to manager

Uphold the Company Values (the 3 E's) in all decisions and interactions

Management Responsibilities

Assign work to assure project deadlines are met

Monitor overall workload to effect efficiency and assure that waiting or downtime is minimized

Keep supervisor or department head apprised of any workload challenges/concerns on assigned team accounts that may necessitate hiring freelancers

Monitor, review and approve direct report's time sheets in terms of hours worked on specific jobs

Provide constructive and direct ongoing feedback to direct reports

Evaluate performance of direct reports and complete and deliver performance reviews

Help supervisor manage and resolve staff issues including performance, personal presentation and internal interactions; anticipate/address performance issues quickly and directly

Recommend adjustments/additions to the roles and procedures of the department to achieve continuous improvement and efficiency across all accounts and/or specific accounts

Help interview, train and orient new team members to the agency, department, and account(s) at the direction of department head

Provide ongoing guidance to all team members and be available to them as a resource foraccount/agency/departmental policies, procedures, etc.

Qualifications
College Degree, preferably in marketing, advertising, communications or science/medicine

4 years Agency or comparable experience

Excellent written and oral communication skills including ability to write basic documents(Creative Briefs)

Maturity to handle senior-level Client contact

Understanding of business principals

Thorough knowledge of, and depth of experience with, marketing/advertising

Ability to manage and train staff, including prioritization of creative hours
$90,000 - $116,500

Omnicom's policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom's corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we're focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us-we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.

Link to Recruitment Privacy Notice: https://www.omc.com/privacy-notice

About Harrison and Star

Harrison and Star is a healthcare advertising agency that provides marketing and advertising services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The company offers a range of services including brand strategy, creative development, digital marketing, and market research. Harrison and Star was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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500 employees
Industry
Founded
1986
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