Account Director

ABOUT VAYNERX

VaynerX (https://vaynerx.com) is the most contemporary family of companies, working together to build and grow brands. Subsidiaries include VaynerMedia, Eva Nosidam Productions, The Sasha Group, Gallery Media Group, Tingley Lane Trading, VaynerSpeakers, and VaynerCommerce.

ABOUT THE SASHA GROUP

The Sasha Group is a full-service, integrated agency delivering best in class marketing and contemporary consulting.

Part of the VaynerX family of companies, the Sasha Group combines attention, culture, and empathy to build beloved, relevant brands with a clear focus on driving measurable results.  By combining expertise across both execution and consulting, it's able to effectively support a wide variety of brands across industries and sizes.

The Opportunity:

To support an expanding brand portfolio in the health and wellness space, we are looking for a Client Partnerships leader with brand portfolio experience who can manage multiple brands in a coordinated manner with Sasha Group Teams and VaynerX partners. This individual will report directly to Sasha Group Leadership (SVP and Executive Director) and will be responsible for leading the day to day management of the portfolio, and working with leadership and team to deliver on and continue expanding our relationship. 

In a Nutshell:

You are a leader who runs the business, keeping the wheels moving and your clients and teams motivated.  Integrated strategic and organizational thinking and execution rests with you. You can harness the efforts of internal and IAT teams to deliver on big brand goals. You are the gatekeeper of brand equity and quality control of work prior to it leaving the building. 

The Role & Responsibilities: 

Client Management: 

• Act as the overall manager of a client's business, ensuring that we are delivering for the client’s business everyday; Ensure that all client initiatives run on time and on budget
• Navigate a portfolio of brands (3-6 brands) within a larger conglomerate or business group, and be deeply informed on the client’s business, including all campaign performance, any competitive, as well as product cycle
• Strengthen and own client (Brand Director, Sr. Brand Director) & partner agency relationships (and all other stakeholders) and ensure the rest of the team maps well to the client set
• Deliver Radical Candor to strengthen and grow client relations, operational excellence.  We are looking for a leader with the comms skills, empathy and courage to deliver all feedback (both the positive and the tough) in a clear, direct and motivating manner, with an action-oriented approach to navigating through challenges and improving our work together.
• Manage and attend relevant internal meetings (e.g: creative reviews, account management status meetings, IAT meetings etc)
• Be able to leverage brand knowledge to inspire the team and contribute ideas that can transform the business. 
• Be able to effectively lead and shape client presentations and confidently present, as required

Team Management

• Understand your role as a leader on the team. Always approachable and empathetic, you are seen as a role model to their direct reports in terms of maturity, self awareness and professionalism. 
• Educate, inspire, motivate, and mentor account teams (along with strategy, media and creative etc…) in our commitment to providing best-in-class marketing communications, while contributing to the career growth of your team members. 
• The Account Director is the person to whom the senior account executives, account executives and team leads look for support, guidance, and counsel. Responsibilities include overall growth and development of their team.
• Supervise creative development for the account - you help lead and shape the creative work based on the client’s business objectives and brief to the agency. Specifically ongoing campaign as well as new campaign exploratories. 
• Manages up to VP/SVP on all things having to do with client and team.
• Responsible for assignments centered around operational and internal initiatives, as provided by the Leadership team.

Business Strategy: 

• Practitioner of the space. You live and breathe marketing for the world we live in. You regularly read business reports and platform updates and provide a pov to the client as relevant
• You eat, breathe, and sleep insights into today’s digital & mobile consumer, to develop brand-specific strategies that, ultimately, help them sell shit 
• Strong foundational and working knowledge of creative and media across major digital