Vaco Looking for Marketing Account Manager- 6.mo CONTRACT-$60/hr Full Time

Job Description

• 100% REMOTE
• $60/hr.
• 6 month contract to start – high potential to extend or convert

As an Account Manager, You’ll work with in-house agency project managers, ensuring that campaigns are delivered on-time and on-budget and that deliverables meet quality standards. You must have a passion for great creative, strong communication, and a proven track record of developing/maintaining positive stakeholder and agency team relationships. Marketing experience is a must as well as having experience with creative output that spans a wide range of social content types, including but not limited to video, photography, original artwork and animation, influencer, media partner content, etc. The ability to think strategically and a strong understanding of applying to analytical insights into creative is necessary for this position.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as agency point of contact for stakeholders
• Maintain a clear understanding of campaign/project goals, timing, budget; plan, resource, and execute; resolve conflicting priorities, as needed
• Manage stakeholder relationships by providing actionable strategic thinking and proactive counsel
• Clear the way for strong, strategic creative to live; defend, support, and foster good ideas
• Own, revise, and deliver resource plans, scope of work, and contractual agreements, as needed
• Monitor campaign set up, briefing process, execution, budget management, measurement, approval processes, timelines, and reporting for campaigns
• Ensure all campaigns invoke brand standards and are cutting-edge, innovative, and of the highest quality

Qualifications:

Project Management skills

• develop work plans, obtaining approvals, estimating and tracking resource requirements, and communicating with stakeholders
• Proactively monitors the progress of multiple projects by tracking activities, spend, and outcomes
• Demonstrates strong analytical, problem-solving, and operations/process excellence skills
• Operates in a highly organized manner, with the ability to prioritize and manage client expectations across multiple, competing projects/priorities with aggressive due dates and quick turn-around times

Leadership skills

• Prior experience working on a virtual team within a highly matrixed organization, preferably for a global corporation or professional services firm
• Identifies and/or follows leading practices to assess resources and budget for client projects and initiatives
• Skilled at gaining consensus when differing viewpoints are presented
• Demonstrates leadership, maturity, and accountability through extra-curricular and community activities
• Develops and manages project budgets

Professional skills

• Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Exhibits a high level of professionalism with a strong executive presence
• Collaborates and builds relationships, both virtually and in-person, with colleagues, stakeholders, and teams across the organization to meet shared objectives
• Skilled at negotiating, with the ability to solve complex problems and demonstrate agility
• Provides strategic and tactical counsel that helps achieve clients’ business goals
• Proficient in Microsoft Office

Brand & Communication skills

• Understands marketing fundamentals with a focus on strategy/trends and execution in the B2B arena
• Leverages design thinking, and other modern problem-solving tools, to develop innovative marketing solutions
• Consistently delivers marketing programs with high-quality results
• Supports delivering our story to a variety of stakeholders through multiple communication channels and thought leadership initiatives as defined by our corporate communications strategy

Technical skills

• Leverage’s technology to support and enhance communication processes
• Uses Workfront to enhance collaboration, manage assets and maintain visibility of project workflows

Preferred:

• Advertising/agency experience

Vaco