Associate Director

  • Full-time

Company Description

Let’s be honest – in this industry, sometimes we complicate things that should be simple. Here is the bottom line:  we want YOU to join us if you are truly passionate about guiding marketers on how to best connect their brands with people. It doesn’t get much simpler than that.

At Spark Foundry, we have a unique approach and provide the support to help you do this. In fact, our approach is built on creating the space for ideas that lead to smart work, and Spark Foundry is built to celebrate and develop YOUR ideas.

Job Description

The role of the Associate Director, Strategy is to be the day-to-day steward on media for assigned brands, including accurate budget control and flow of media activity. You will be required to develop and maintain a strong knowledge of client business and apply media understanding accordingly to help deliver against the client needs and objectives. You will work closely with the team and various partners in the development and communication of all media recommendations.  

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

•    Strong digital and cross-channel planning and buying skills.
•    Successful at building strong, collaborative client relationships, instilling trust and authority on behalf of the agency.
•    Ability to manage timelines, projects, and personnel within direct report team and across cross-functional teams.
•    Flexible and able to keep up with a fast paced, constantly evolving environment.
•    Capacity to successfully manage multiple work streams at one time.
•    Strong foundation in strategic and critical thinking, with an eye for finding ways to innovate and collaborate with teams to improve outputs.
•    Experience with productive and positive vendor relationship management.
•    Individual should possess confidence and composure and polished presentation skills to effectively attend and lead meetings in-person with key clients on a daily basis.
•    Self-motivation and organization are key given coordination with multiple internal and external teams.
 

Qualifications

•    Bachelor's degree, concentration in advertising, marketing, business administration, communications, or related field preferred. MBA is a plus.
•    5+ years experience in media planning, buying, and management with progressive levels of responsibility.
•    Think strategically, take into account the bigger picture, analyze everything and think critically when solving problems to come up with unconventional solutions.
•    Team leadership experience, know what it takes to manage a group, even when a lot of moving parts are involved. Not only can you take care of the day-to-day part of overseeing others, but you are good at helping them grow and realize their own potential.
•    Build great relationships with clients, vendors, and reps. Have a history negotiating to get the job done right and track record of success in media, understand business and have a knack for sharing complicated ideas in a simple, understandable way.
•    Already active in the kinds of digital gadgets and communities that are changing our business, have a passion for tablets, smartphones, social networks, instant messaging, widgets, apps, blogs and anything new and life-changing, and want to find ways to make them work for brands.
 

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