Account Executive - Digital Growth

Job Title:                           Account Executive- Digital   

Reports To:                      Associate Director

FLSA Status:                    Full Time - Salaried, Exempt

Location:                           Cincinnati, OH

pep started with 7 employees, a borrowed conference room, and an idea to fill a void in the marketing services space.  Today we’ve grown to over 200 people and we are an industry leader in consumer activation, serving some of the top Fortune 500 companies.  We’ve managed over $5 billion in marketing spend for over 750 brands and pride ourselves on a client retention rate of 98%. 

Our company has evolved since we started 19 years ago, but there is one thing that has remained constant.  At pep, we put people first.  Our core values of accountability, excellence, ingenuity, people, and tenacity guide our interactions, decisions, and drive our culture.  We are committed to maintaining an inclusive environment where every member of our team feels seen, cared for, and has the support they need to thrive.  And our tremendous growth provides our people with many new career and development opportunities along with the flexibility to pursue their professional goals.  

We’re looking for teammates who are driven, eager to learn, agile, positive, and client focused to join and contribute to our team.  If this sounds like you and you want to be a part of something special, then click below to apply. 

At pep we value our team and offer: 

• Generous Time Off 

• Robust Health and Wellness Plan 

• Family Support 

• Mentorship Program 

• 401K Match 

• Role Autonomy 

• Certification Reimbursement and Ongoing Training 

• Enrichment Events and Employee Resource Groups 

Summary of Position:  

Account Executive- Digital position is responsible for expanding pep’s knowledge in digital marketing and managing digital campaigns. The essential duties and responsibilities include the following.

Key Responsibilities and Attributes:

 Digital Expertise

• Develop digital expertise and strategic/consultative skills
• Collaborate with pep’s SPOC for Catalyst, pep’s in-house digital activation platform
  • Become an expert in Catalyst platform capabilities and offerings
  • Provide inputs and recommendations on development and implementation of capabilities and enhancements
  • Assist in cross training pep team on platform
  • Assist in building internal and external facing value prop content specific to Catalyst
• Drive additional digital programs– identify new programs for pep to manage and connect opportunities to recommend a digital component to a pre-existing program.
• Assist in creating content plan for digital including white papers, POV’s, and case studies
• Act as a digital planning resource: present emerging capabilities, share competitive insights and industry trends.

Promotion Management of digital campaigns.  This includes: 

• Help develop programs based on client’s objectives
• SOW development
• Manage all aspects of promotions for your assigned programs

• Communicate / update timeline expectations to appropriate client, supplier and internal personnel. 

• Communicate production/promotion specifications to suppliers. 

• Collaborate with client and suppliers to ensure that program requirements meet legal and policy guidelines/requirements.    

• Assist in confirming project cost estimates and communicating with appropriate personnel.     

• Communicate recommendations that allow our customers to reduce costs and/or reduce cycle time. 

• Collaborate with necessary parties to assure that complete program execution is seamless and flawless. 
• Coordinate invoice and billing   

Additional responsibilities:

• Qualify and participate in RFP’s, pulling together content and leading presentations when requested

Knowledge/Skills Preferred:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  A successful candidate will have the following skills:

• Preferred, but not required: Bachelor’s in Business or Communication a 2.8+ GPA from four-year college or university (emphasis in marketing or management); or Minimum 18 months of applicable business or promotion management experience
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals as well as operate internal, online systems
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence
• Ability to be client facing
• Ability to mentor, grow and work harmoniously as part of a larger team
• Ability to do intermediate-level math (calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, and percentages)
• Ability to apply common-sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form
• Ability to problem solve
• Effectively utilizes staff including delegating as appropriate
• Ability to manage healthy business processes
• To perform this job successfully, an individual should have experience in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Power Point, and Excel. Typing skills should be a minimum of 55 wpm
• Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus