Account Director

At FCBX Chicago, the Account Director is the agency’s commissioner to the client. We want a person who understands the client’s needs beyond marketing and looks deeper at their partnership with the agency. This person takes a leadership role in strategy development and ensures that the strategy maps back to the client’s goals. The Account Director is a proactive and effective partner with all cross-functional team members. We want someone with the ability to champion ideas, inspire great work and effectively defend and persuade the agency POV to the client. Someone who knows a good idea when they see it.

the position:

• Understanding client objectives, strategies and key initiatives to recommend how partnership can be used to help clients achieve their goals 
• Negotiating sports, entertainment, and event partnerships and remaining actively involved to ensure client satisfaction 
• Managing budget expectations throughout negotiations 
• Facilitating legal review and commentary 
• Overseeing sponsorship activation and ensuring all contractual assets are delivered upon Communicating account status to the internal account team as well as other relevant teams 
• Supporting account teams with ideation and developing new program concepts 
• Supporting account teams with property discussions as needed during course of contract 
• Ensuring all contracts are executed as negotiated 
• Facilitating and acquiring necessary documentation for wrap up reporting 
• Performing annual sponsorship assessments and contractual analysis; providing recommendations on performance enhancements, make-good needs and identify incremental opportunities 
• Generating periodic marketplace updates (e.g. newsletters, best practices, etc.)

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience in marketing or advertising 
• Has experience managing and mentoring junior level talent 
• Has the ability to provide big picture strategic thinking, vision and insights to drive big ideas and initiatives 
• Possess collaborative leadership skills that encourage team cooperation and motivate relationship-building 
• Is enthusiastic about business and passionate about marketing 
• Is self-confident in oral, written, strategic and analytical abilities 
• Bachelor’s degree and/or relevant experience required 
• FCB has adopted a hybrid working environment. It is required for employees to be in office Tuesday-Thursday and can work from home Monday and Friday 
• FCB will be implementing a vaccine mandate for employees. All employees will be required to be fully vaccinated or provide approval of an accommodation 

This job description is not an exhaustive list of all functions that an employee may be required to perform, and the employee may be required to perform additional functions, reserving the right to revise the job description at any time.