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Senior Account Director

tms, chicago, il, United States

Salary min: $150,000.00

Salary max: $175,000.00


Overview

tms unites technology, marketing, and sourcing to drive transformational change for the world’s leading brands. With more than 1,400 employees across 28 countries, we offer a range of solutions – from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery. We operate as a creative agency, a strategic consultancy, a sourcing business, and a technology provider, engaging with over 110 million customers daily for clients including McDonald’s, T-Mobile, O2, Starbucks, and adidas.

We foster a culture of inclusion and belonging and aspire to be ever-evolving. Visit us at tmsw.com.

Role

Senior Account Director for our strategic-thinking, creative-idea-generating, client-problem-solving community. You will give a voice to our client’s business, marketing, and overall brand presence.

What You Will Bring To The Organization

The ideal candidate will be innovative, collaborative, have people leadership experience, and be driven by a desire to continuously build our clients’ brands and redefine what’s possible in customer engagement and experiences.

Responsibilities

  • You understand clients’ business and business issues and serve as a trusted advisor to drive extraordinary solutions.
  • You will lead and contribute to new strategies and generate ideas for clients, represent client interests and clearly communicate to internal teams.
  • Be a champion of extraordinary work by providing inspiration, leadership and expertise in the agency’s offerings.

Building Valuable Client Relationships

  • You understand clients’ business and business issues and serve as a trusted advisor to drive extraordinary solutions.
  • You will lead and contribute to new strategies and generate ideas for clients, represent client interests and clearly communicate to internal teams.
  • Be a champion of extraordinary work – by providing inspiration, leadership and expertise in the agency’s offerings.

Skills and Experience We Would Like You To Have

  • Financial Services and Trading (Global Exchanges, Options, Futures, Equities, Derivatives) marketing experience or interest in trading- equities, derivatives, digital assets and/or options.
  • A track record of success building high-impact, strategic relationships with clients. Develop long-term strategies to sustain, diversify and grow client relationships across and extend agency services.
  • Become a subject matter expert in the clients’ industry, company and competition. Develop trust-based relationships with senior clients and their teams. Deeply understand the client’s business, their organization’s ecosystem and brand and marketing challenges so you can act as a trusted business partner and marketing consultant.
  • Demonstrated experience working with major brands to support strategic brand communications using integrated omni-channel marketing campaigns.
  • Lead brand strategies and evolve product marketing platforms, including campaigns, activation strategies, content strategy and operations initiatives to drive brand-building and product marketing objectives.
  • Build a cohesive team across departments, disciplines and agency partners to support operationally sound, effective delivery of the agency’s committed scope. Foster high client satisfaction in everything we deliver.
  • Experience in developing and executing integrated marketing programs that include multi-channel executions.
  • Strong understanding of the analytics and insights needed to demonstrate brand and customer success metrics.
  • People leadership experience for direct reports and experience leading cross-functional teams. Innovative and able to marshal people and create gravity around ideas.
  • Willingness to embrace the unknown, break processes through innovation, and explore new ideas. Willingness to investigate, assess and adapt with innovation trends and new technologies to drive effectiveness and efficiency.
  • Strong knowledge of industry trends in the evolving business and agency environment.
  • Proven experience managing financials including estimating, forecasting and reconciliation.

Compensation

Starting salary between $150,000-175,000.

Benefits

Our total rewards philosophy integrates programs for compensation, benefits, recognition, learning and development, corporate culture, corporate citizenship and work-life balance. Some components may differ by country, but commonly include:

  • Generous medical, dental, vision and other benefits
  • Paid parental and medical leave programs
  • 401(k) with company match and profit sharing
  • 15 days of paid time off plus company holidays
  • Hybrid work model
  • Tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment assistance
  • Inclusive employee resource groups

Equal Opportunity

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Recruiting Agencies

tms does not accept agency resumes submitted by third-party vendors unless a valid agreement has been signed and the tms Talent Acquisition Team has granted authorization for submissions for a specified position. tms is not responsible for fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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