Account Director

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Chicago, IL
95K-100K Annually
Entry level
AdTech • Agency • Digital Media • eCommerce • Information Technology • Marketing Tech • App development
We merge storytelling with technology to promote health, wealth and happiness in the world.
The Role
The Account Director at MERGE will oversee account management processes, monitor interactions between the account team and clients, and cultivate strong relationships with clients. This role involves leading the account management team and ensuring the delivery of projects within deadlines, while fostering collaboration across departments and contributing to strategic decision-making.
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Merge Storytelling and Technology

MERGE promotes health, wealth and happiness in the world by merging storytelling with technology and offers marketing and technology clients full-service capabilities including strategy, creative communications, experience engineering, performance marketing, media and digital platform development. MERGE has enduring client partnerships with American Express, T-Mobile, LG, Subway, Kate Spade NY, Coach, The North Face, Meta, Adobe, BlueCross BlueShield, Abbott, Astellas, Supernus, CSL, GE Healthcare, Broward Health, Indiana University Health, Nationwide and Morgan Stanley. With 800 employees across offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Kansas City, Montreal, New York City and Los Angeles, MERGE uses a talent-to-task process that enables clients to think higher and feel deeper about their customers. For more information, visit mergeworld.com.

Promote Health, Wealth & Happiness

We are committed to promoting health, wealth, and happiness in the world by partnering with purpose-driven clients in purpose-driven industries such as healthcare, financial services, and consumer products. Our deep vertical expertise and category insights stem from decade-long partnerships with our top clients.

Emerge to the Top of Your Career

At MERGE, we strive to create a superior work experience where talented and ambitious people grow. An experience that encourages people to think higher and feel deeper. An experience where people engage minds and hearts to do the best work of their careers.

As our Account Director, you will…

Be Accountable and Responsible

As our Account Director, you will oversee and lead all account management processes. You will monitor, direct, and motivate day-to-day interactions between the account team and clients, actively nurturing strong relationships with existing and possible clients. This role combines strategic and hands-on experience by delivering engaging, passionate outstanding ideas and work.  You will work closely with the account team to drive tactical projects through the agency and meet delivery requirements/deadlines. You will also act as a senior solution-oriented manager that thrives on developing lasting relationships between the client and agency teams. This position involves consistent client contact and operates at a high level in all aspects of account management.

While this description includes core functional responsibilities, all of our employees are active members of the team, and flexible in assisting the company as it grows and evolves. This expectation requires each person to be capable of adapting to the dynamics of a client-driven environment. We’re as interested in your human side as your technical expertise. As our Account Director- Life Science Practice Area will be upbeat, optimistic, and happy to help the team.

Core functional responsibilities include:  

  • Provide strategic leadership for the Account Management team
  • Responsible for creating relationships with senior clients to facilitate the overall needs of the client and agency
  • Utilize experience to identify additional business needs and implement solutions
  • Incorporate senior staff from account management with other departments as project objectives or issues warrant
  • Manage and grow a team as a mentor and trusted advisor to account team
  • Maintains working knowledge of MERGE’s solutions and resources and recognizes/acts upon opportunities.

These are the qualifications we’re looking for

  • Bachelor's degree required and/or equivalent work experience
  • 8+ years of Life Science account management experience within an advertising environment with traditional and digital channels spanning both HCP and patient audiences.
  • Ability to evaluate competitive communications across categories, consumer, product, cultural trends, etc.
  • Willingness to roll up your in a highly collaborative environment 
  • Advanced client management skills, especially as it relates to setting and managing client expectations
  • Superior professional communication and presentation skills
  • Commitment to the client, attention to detail, and strong problem-solving ability

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At MERGE, we’re committed to fostering an environment where our team members can thrive in both their careers and personal lives, ensuring they feel supported and empowered to succeed.

MERGE is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 410K, Lifestyle Spending Account, Employer Paid Life & Disability Insurance, Flexible Time off & Holidays plus many other benefits and rewards.

MERGE believes in transparency and equity. In accordance with state regulations, we’re proud to include salary ranges in our job postings to ensure fair compensation practices.

The salary range for this role is $95,000 - $100,000, based on the individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.  

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States

And here’s how we live our values at MERGE

  • Ability. Mastering our craft
  • Agility. Delivering with a growth mindset
  • Humility. Collaborating for shared success

MERGE is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer

MERGE welcomes and celebrates diversity regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status or people with abilities. We believe that the more diverse we are, the more creative our work will be!

The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
760 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

We are an award-winning marketing services firm that merges storytelling and technology to bring health, wealth, and happiness to the world. Here, the potential is limitless. People come to MERGE looking for a new way; for ideas and solutions that will make an impact. Our name reflects our belief that collaboration across disciplines leads to better results. With offices in Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, New York City, Costa Mesa, Kansas City, and Denver, we continuously seek and make new connections through creative and technology. We’re here for the strivers; those who are ambitious and want to emerge to the top.

Why Work With Us

Ability: When we strive to be masters of our craft and keep curiosity in our hearts, we make magic.
Agility: When we deliver with a growth mindset and make the complicated simple, we have the speed and flexibility to deliver in a digital world.
Humility: When we share success together, we celebrate not just the work, but the people - and journey.

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