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Title: Vice President, Group Account Supervisor
Company/Location: New York, NY
Department/Discipline: Account Services
Overview
The Vice President, Group Account Supervisor will operate on multiple levels, both internally and externally, to strategically manage the brand, product, agency product team and especially external client relations.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate "Big Picture" thinking view of Brand and business and provide strategic contributions to success of Brand
- Aid in the construction of a marketing plan and contribute to a successful pitch
- Demonstrate the fiscal acumen to lead a profitable account
- Aggressively monitor fee performance to encourage/ensure
- Demonstrate ability to determine and negotiate budget needs, produce accurate and timely fee reconciliations, and provide input to development of the fee
- 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
- 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 colleagues
- Act as a positive role model for agency at client and industry events
- 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
- 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 for account/agency/departmental policies, procedures
- Provide leadership within his/her department as well as across the agency
- Proactively provide suggestions that impact agency policy and operations.
- Demonstrate support of the Agency’s goals and
- Identify, recruit, train and develop talent
- Motivate direct reports, and act as a mentor to all within Agency
- Understand when it’s appropriate to make decisions independently and when to escalate issues/decisions to manager
- Uphold the Company Values in all decisions and interactions
Experience
- College degree, preferably in marketing, advertising, communications or science/medicine
- 7 - 8 years Agency or comparable experience (HCP Agency marketing experience preferred)
- 3 years of supervisory experience
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Well-developed knowledge of business practices/vendor relations
- Maturity to handle independent senior-level Client contact
- Ability to manage and train staff
- NPP and Omnichannel experience needed
- Successful history of growing brands and possibly launching brands
- Understanding of therapeutic categories/disease states
The range below represents the low and high end of the base salary someone in this role may earn as an employee of an Omnicom Health Group company in the United States. Salaries will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience, training, associated responsibilities, and other business and organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of our total compensation package for employees. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire.
Omnicom Health Group is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is equally distributed, and we’re focused on developing diverse 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.
