Senior Account Director

Senior Account Director
Reporting Location: Chicago - 345 North Morgan

Salary: $150,000-175,000

Workplace Type: Hybrid

About the Company
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 an impressive range of solutions – from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery.

Operating as a creative agency, a strategic consultancy, a sourcing business, and a technology provider, we engage with over 110 million customers every single day for our clients, including McDonald’s, T-Mobile, O2, Starbucks, and adidas.

Responsibilities
You are a passionate and thoughtful Sr. Account Director for our strategic-thinking, creative-idea-generating, client-problem-solving community, giving a voice for our client’s business, marketing, and overall brand presence.

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.

Qualifications

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 client’s 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 the agency partners, in the service of the clients – 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. Innovator with a desire to bring people together. Innate ability to marshal people and create gravity around ideas.

Willingness to embrace the unknown and ready to break process through innovation. You’ll be excited by opportunities to explore new ideas rather than rely on existing paradigms, and you view technology as a tool that can drive this creativity and innovation. Willingness to investigate, assess and adapt with innovation trends and new technologies to drive effectiveness and efficiency.

Strong knowledge of industry including trends in the evolving business and agency industry environment.

Proven experience managing financials including estimating, forecasting and reconciliation.

Benefits
Our total rewards philosophy integrates programs for compensation, benefits, recognition, learning and development, corporate culture, corporate citizenship and work‑life balance. While individual program components may differ by country, some things remain constant:

Our commitment to rewarding results.

Opportunities to work with talented and driven individuals at every level of our company who respect each other, treat each other fairly and hold one another accountable for our customers’ — and our company’s — success.

Generous medical, dental, vision and other great benefits.

Paid parental and medical leave programs.

401(k) with a company match component and profit sharing.

15 days of paid time off plus company holidays.

Tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment assistance.

Inclusive employee resource groups.

Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. 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. Please do not submit or forward resumes to our site, tms employees, or any other company location. tms is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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