Account Executive

Description

Position at Fingerpaint Marketing

Reset your expectations of a health and wellness agency. Independent by design and built on a foundation of empathy, Fingerpaint Group celebrates what you bring as both a professional and an individual. With talent across the United States and Europe launching more than 200 brands, we are committed to creating and executing meaningful experiences. In 2021, Fingerpaint Group was named to Ad Age's Best Places to Work and was awarded Agency of the Year by Med Ad News. Here, creativity happens naturally-we attract top talent and give them a space to grow and collaborate.

The individual in this role must be located within a commutable distance to our Cedar Knolls, New Jersey office. This person will be expected to attend special meetings and events at the office, in addition to client visits in the Cedar Knolls area, a few times per month.

Objectives of This Role:

This role requires attention to detail and strong organizational skills. You'll be responsible for supporting leadership in account management, including day-to-day account activities. We'll require you to work with agency team leaders to facilitate optimal client service and a quality experience.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Excellent understanding of digital marketplace and ad formats
• Highly effective communication skills
• Ability to think strategically, creatively, and collaboratively
• Candidates should demonstrate the ability to:

• Prioritize and manage multiple tasks and deliverables and ensure that projects are executed on time and on budget
• Follow up with the clients on outstanding issues and questions
• Prepare weekly status reports
• Set up weekly project status calls
• Document all calls and meetings
• Partner with team to efficiently manage the project timelines, budgets, and resources to ensure timely completion of all deliverables

• Review all deliverables and aggregate team feedback
• Manage submission process
• Schedule and attend project-related presentations
• Communicate client changes and rationale to internal team following client reviews
• Experience preparing financial worksheets and reports

• Assist in planning and coordinating across functional areas of the agency
• Help to ensure effective delivery of projects and seamless communication
• Work on multitasking skills and ability to run multiple projects and priorities with a sense of ease
• Attend meetings and capture notes and action items for the team
• Support the account team in brand plan coordination as needed
• Support the account team to help coordinate workshops and brainstorming meetings internally and with the client
• Develop strategic and actionable project briefs
• Actively monitor the headlines for current brand and competitor news, trends, and white space opportunity

Job Requirements:

• 1 to 3 years relevant experience required
• Demonstrate strong written and verbal skills
• Media experience is a plus

Don't meet every single requirement? That's okay! Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Fingerpaint, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles! Our team of qualified recruiters can match you with the right opportunity.Fingerpaint Group provides equal employment [and affirmative action] opportunities to all applicants and employees. We are proud to recruit qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or citizenship status.