Senior Account Manager, Experiential

The Role and What You’ll Do:

is seeking a Senior Account Manager to join the Client Services team to lead business on a variety of high-profile clients. The Senior Account Manager manages and executes project workstreams and interfaces and sustains client relationships for major consumer brands with minimal supervision. The Senior Account Manager must have a background in experiential marketing including a strong understanding of the intricacies of planning and executing events. Experience with luxury brands is preferred.

Important characteristics for success in this role are solid verbal and written communication skills, strong organizational and multi-tasking skills, interpersonal skills and a proactive approach. It is also essential that this person has a strong understanding of brand marketing and sponsorship specifically in the experiential space, a background in client service and ability to project manage and create integrative solutions across multiple different teams (account, strategy, production, creative, digital, etc.).

The Sr. Account Manager will oversee Account Managers and/or Account Coordinators across a variety of projects.

• Provide support to VP, Client Service on planning and developing work needed to execute projects across the account
• Act as day-to-day client contact and lead client projects with little oversight while overseeing and managing a cross-functional internal team
• Demonstrate current working knowledge of sponsorship activation including the intricacies of planning events
• Build and strengthen client relationships through leadership, relationship building and program development
• Oversee and manage a variety of project deliverables simultaneously
• Manage internal and external staff on execution and delivery of programs
• Oversee all project budget and billing needs
• Develop appropriate communication to client, internal team members or other pertinent individuals on an as needed basis
• Lead and mentor direct reports
• Apply best practices and learnings from previous projects to elevate performance level
• Create accountability practices within company

You Have These:

• 5-7 years demonstrated experience in client service (agency experience preferred)
• 3-5 years demonstrated team management experience
• Strong organizational skills with ability to manage multiple projects at one time
• Excellent communication (written & verbal) to include interpersonal skills
• Proficiency in project management and proven track record of delivering projects on time and within budget
• Experience managing cross-functional team including strategy, creative, production, etc.
• Experience working with large consumer brands
• Ability to build and manage large project budgets
• Strong relationship building skills with ability to develop and sustain strong working relationships with colleagues, clients and partners
• Proven experience and ability to effectively present marketing campaign concepts and ideas to an audience
• Adept at building relationships and working in a team environment with proven track record of sharing ideas, providing encouragement, building on other’s ideas, giving due appreciation and bringing out the best in others
• Proactive, positive, can-do attitude with demonstrated problem solving and solution skills
• Willing and able to work nonstandard work hours, weekends and travel as necessary
• Microsoft Office proficient (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

How we work:

WME Group is at the center of sports, media, entertainment, and fashion and is a largely relationship-based business. To foster an environment of collaboration, develop our future talent, and build on relationships across leadership, peers, and teams, we work from the office 4 days per week. We see immeasurable value internally and throughout the core of the businesses we support.

Don’t meet every single requirement? We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Per local requirements and in the interest of transparency, the range shown below reflects the prevalent current hiring range for this position. Hiring pay rates are based on a number of factors, including location and may vary depending on job-related qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience. The company strives to provide locally competitive rewards packages, which include base rate along with, as applicable, short- and long-term incentives, growth and developmental opportunities, and robust benefits, such as health care, retirement, vacation and other paid time off, and additional offerings.

Hiring Range Minimum:

$82,500 annually

Hiring Range Maximum:

$110,000 annually

is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that encourages applications from qualified, eligible candidates from all backgrounds and life experiences regardless of race, gender identity, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, or belief.