Agency:
Ketchum

Job Function:
Consulting

Job Subfunction:
Business and Change Consulting

Job Description:

Golin Ketchum is looking for a Vice President, Corpsumer to join our team!

What You'll Do:

Can you drive teams to deliver programs and projects with accuracy and timeliness? Are you comfortable picking up the phone and speaking with clients to understand - and deliver - what they need? Are you a mover and shaker, who's eager to grow while growing our clients' business? If so, keep reading!

As Vice President, you must be able to manage the teams and budgets on sizable accounts with responsibility for excellent quality work, seamless client service, incremental growth, and employee development. You must be able to multitask efficiently and have excellent communication, writing, editing, social/media relations skills, able to spot trends, and apply various measurement tools on the accounts you manage.

• Act as primary contact to clients, continually fostering client-agency relationships to build trust and become a valuable resource to clients
• Provide strategic guidance to clients on an ongoing basis on program strategy and executive visibility in partnership with our specialists; anticipate and address clients' needs
• Lead account team(s) in working effectively and in the best interest of client(s)
• Troubleshoot client problems as they arise; seek senior management input whenever appropriate
• Motivate team members by promptly reviewing work and providing constructive feedback; encourage the team to take advantage of training and development opportunities ; fostering an environment for growth
• Represent agency and work in client-integrated agency meetings, helping to troubleshoot and identify opportunities for collaboration
• Demonstrate proficiency in writing and editing materials including programs, proposals, press materials, byline articles, speeches, correspondence, reports, etc.
• Strive to develop the best communication and presentation skills possible to articulate ideas to clients, colleagues, and others effectively
• Manage account financials including budget allocation and control, client billing, supplier invoicing, and purchase orders; ensure team billability and account profitability
• Work with account team(s) to build incremental business
• Communicate account status to agency management regularly
• Participate in new business programming and presentations

What You Have:

Any combination of education and experience providing the required skills and knowledge for successful performance would qualify. Typical qualifications would be equivalent to:

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, English, Marketing, or a related field preferred.
• Minimum of 8 years of large agency and/or public relations experience, ideally within the Retail space
• Demonstrated record in building strong client relationships and delivering programs that exceeded anticipated results
• Proven track record in growing business
• Demonstrated experience as a team leader
• Direct experience in building and managing teams and interfacing with integrated agency teams

$120,000 - 140,000

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.