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Account Executive

Negotiable

Atlanta, Georgia

Description

Food Service Advertising Agency experience is a requirement.

Summit Marketing is a results oriented marketing agency that provides clients with expertise across a broad spectrum of marketing services. These disciplines are leveraged in consumer and corporate marketing programs throughout the U.S. Our people and process set us apart. We have over 350 highly skilled professionals across 6 offices in the U.S., bringing years of industry specific experience to client relationships across a wide range of product categories.  Our office is located in Atlanta, GA.

POSITION DESCRIPTION

The Account Executive provides support to the account team in all areas of day-to-day account management.  This position is resonsible for monitoring and coordinating the interal workflow for the assigned projects/account(s).

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Translate national and regional properties into volume-building opportunities for both account-specific as well as market-wide promotions.
  • Supervise Assistant AE's to ensure projects flow throug the company correctly and due dates are met for each phase of the project.  Delegate work effectively while promoting team interaction and motivation.  Ensure flawless day-to-day management of project execution.
  • Basic understanding of client business and project objectives
  • Basic understanding of competitive landscape
  • Proactively anticipate client needs and formulate solutions
  • Manage the development and execution of plans and programs
  • Manage program execution, including facilitating the process of creative development and production
  • Assist in securing legal clearance for program materials
  • Develop project timelines, assign and manage priorities to ensure deadlines are met
  • Prepare and issue weekly priority project list
  • Traffic creative and production elements
  • Proactive follow-up/follow-through with agency resoures to ensure work is on-track
  • Write Project Updates
  • Develop project estimates
  • Track all project estimates to ensure all appropriate client signatures are received
  • Monitor job costs and issue reports to track each aspect of project; provide notification regarding budget status
  • Prepare/issue invoices on a timely basis
  • Prepare and issue Conference Reports from all meetings and conference calls

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES

Other job-related duties are assigned as needed.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Travel required; average of two trips per month.  Some weekends. 

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

  • B/A preferably in Marketing, Business Administration or Communications
  • Working knowledge of Agency process; must have worked at marketing agency, promotion agency, direct marketing agency or PR agency. 
  • Prefer experience in the food service/consumer packaged goods sector.
  • 3-5 years minimum agency experience.
  • 1 year minimum industry experience.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

This job descriptions does not list all the duties of the job.  You may be asked by your manager to perform other duties.  You will be evaluated in part based upon your performance of the tasks listed in this job description.

Summit Marketing has the right to revise this job description at any time.  The job description is not a contract for employment, and either you or Summit Marketing can terminate employment at any time.

 

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