Senior Client Solutions Manager (Remote)

Job Description

Who we are (or a little bit about us):

CitrusAd is powering retail media, with a personalized sponsored product and display ad technology platform for some of the world's biggest retailers across 25 countries. Our tech paired with a world class services division is driving retailer media sales and enhanced Ad Serving for retailers of any size. Now that’s refreshing!

In 2020, we saw an amazing year of growth for our organization, with the focus being on diversifying from our core platform/technology only offering and expanding into the retail media sector via services, as well as creating the largest US ecommerce grocery network. Each strategic move has meant more success and allowed us to continue to win against our competitors.

Our mission is to be the world’s leading retail media platform, with every aspect of our business being world class. We are able to achieve this by living by our core principles:

• Gratitude, honesty, and transparency
• Show up
• Know the role you play
• Do less, deliver more, obsess
• Incremental improvements
• Take ownership
• Collective leadership
• Team before the individual and most importantly,
• Mutual respect

Why this could be your next big break: 

At CitrusAd, we are committed to fueling our team members’ passion for creativity, collaboration, and desire to learn and grow.  After all, it’s our people that propel us forward. If you thrive in a creatively open environment with a teamwork atmosphere, this may be the job for you!

Our Account Executives are an integral part of the team and responsible for driving revenue and partnership growth for non-endemic retail media programs. This role is centered on a consultative sales approach, connecting non-endemic advertisers with our retail audiences for media partnerships. This includes managing an existing book of business alongside a client solutions manager, bringing in net new business, growing brand/agency partnerships and internal cross-functional management. The position requires strong interpersonal skills to manage day to day client communication, a strategic mindset to develop media recommendations and deliver on revenue goals.

Job Description

About the role:

• Client Relationship Management
  • Provide world class service to retail clients, manage day to day communication and collaboration with external brands/suppliers and internal cross-functional team members
  • Develop and cultivate supplier/brand relationships by consulting with advertisers on their key goals, challenges, and growth opportunities
  • Facilitating year over year brand performance, in turn retailer growth
  • Establish and communicate timelines of deliverables and creative production scope (if applicable) with suppliers/brands
• Sales Support & Media Strategy Development
  • Develop media plan recommendations based on retailer product knowledge, keeping in mind individual brand performance goals and growth
  • Support material creation from initial sales pitch to campaign completion, including contract creation, marketing material ideation and overseeing creative and asset management
  • Ensure 100% accuracy with CRM data input and campaign setup including but not limited to paperwork
  • High-level understanding of performance metrics and analytics to deliver confident feedback to the suppliers/brands, as needed (and as supported by the Analytics team)
• Campaign Execution & Operations
  • Manage asset collection with suppliers
  • Handle campaign setup within multiple Ad Serving tool(s) and/or communication to Campaign Manager, oversee campaign implementation and ensure trafficking accuracy
  • Monitor campaign performance and pacing, if necessary, provide campaign optimization recommendations
  • Inform clients of campaign status, if necessary, gather approvals from Business Lead and/or client on optimizations, make goods, etc.
  • Oversee billing/invoicing process; confirm billing details with supplier for CRM input, Finance communication and manage any invoice adjustments 
  • Review and finalize campaign completion reports

Overall, the Client Solutions Manager is better understood as a jack of many trades. We empower our CSMs to manage all aspects of their brand relationships, from working with the sales team to develop strategy, setting up brands within internal systems, and managing the campaign process from planning, trafficking, creative, operations and analytics. The CSM is supported by leads in the various cross-functional departments, however, we think it’s important that the CSM has the ability to action forward necessary tasks on demand. We think this helps prevent roadblocks and unnecessary passing of informati