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Company Description
Born in Chicago and with offices across the globe, Leo Burnett was built on a simple belief. That the most creative, most effective and most powerful work has people at its core—their needs, wants, dreams and hopes. It’s a belief that can be seen in action in everything we make.
Today, we call this belief HumanKind. And it’s helped countless brands become more valuable to the people they serve, all around the world.
Job Description
Leo Burnett is seeking an Executive, Communications who executes flawlessly, prioritizes attention to detail, and exhibits professional and motivating behavior. The talent will be responsible for executing the administrative & strategic tasks needed for not only the account team, but for the agency client as well.
Agency Operations
- Finances: Own the daily account work on the brand including budgets and bills. Familiarity with and adherence to agency financial and operating procedures and policies. Maintains accurate, organized files.
- Trouble shoot: Solution oriented. Brings problems to the attention of management
- Team Leadership: Positive influence on internal, cross-capability team
Knowledge
- Solid understanding of the brand, category, and at least two media channels
- Continuously learning technology
- Adheres to and is an advocate for agency process. Identifies issues and contributes to problem resolution
Strategy
- Competitive positioning: Understands client positioning and strategy thoroughly; has solid competitive knowledge
- Informing: Keeps team informed of changes in client/competitive climate. Communicates clearly and frequently
- Planning: Research on category, competitive data, therapeutic areas.
Tactics and Execution
- Contributes thoughtfully to the brand tactical planning and creative process
- Works with account team to execute plan tactics
- Responsible for accurate and thorough documentation: status reports, contact report, timelines; takes ownership of day-to-day tactics and executions within agency
- Develops strong and positive working relationships with project management, creative, finance, and other departments
Client Relationship
- Communications: Attends client meetings and provides timely follow-up (e.g. contact reports). Synchronizes communications between account teams, vendors and clients
- Presentations: Organizes/manages and has experience in leading client presentations. Influence and diplomacy in written and verbal communications. Effective but concise communications.
- Relationship: Is able to communicate directly and frequently with client autonomously. Builds rapport and credibility with client peer based on trust and expert counsel. Effectively manages difficult conversations.
- Works with client to execute advertising and marketing plans
