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Interested in a career in direct marketing and fundraising for nonprofits? Brewer Direct is an exciting and young company with tremendous opportunity. Offering competitive salaries and a complete benefits package including health insurance, retirement programs and profit sharing, BDI is an equal opportunity employer.

Are you ready to transform and be transformed by applying your skills to help the world’s neediest men, women, and children? Read below for current opportunities.

Account Executive

Purpose:

The role of the Account Executive is to cultivate and manage exceptional relationships with assigned clients and ensure client satisfaction through superior service and capable tactical campaign support – executing on client-centered, integrated, multi-channel, direct response, strategic marketing activities. This role is a client management role as well as an Account Specialist role – both managing the client relationship and responsible for the support-side of the execution of the campaigns.

The Account Executive will report to and work under the direction of the assigned Account Director to establish and cultivate the business relationship, gain and maintain a high level of understanding of the client’s service area, unique positioning, and overall objectives and requirements. Under the direction of the Account Director, the Account Executive will encourage account growth through careful relationship and project stewardship. The Account Executive will interact with clients to build, present, and defend proposals, to provide program and product updates; communications updates, troubleshooting on a tactical level, serve as a liaison between the client and the Creative, Production, and Digital teams to ensure the client’s needs and goals are being met on every project, and other account-related tactical support.

As a dynamic team player, the Account Executive will work in collaboration across the agency to create the absolute best work for our clients, bringing innovative bold ideas to life coupled with service excellence.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• • Forges seamless trusted-advisor partnerships with assigned clients.

• • Under the direction of the Account Director, plans, develops, presents, defends, and executes strategic annual marketing budgets, plans/projections for each client – taking into consideration market data, promotional history, and budgetary parameters – to best meet client goals and objectives and to serve the best interests of the company.

• • Tracks the timely development and execution of plans, campaigns, and special projects – keeping the client informed at every stage.

• • Understands data and key performance indicators to build client projections using best practice theory as well as actual data. Demonstrates strong understanding of digital initiatives.

• • Manages the client’s budget, oversees progress of each client’s job(s) within the creative and production processes, and facilitates the client’s jobs on-time completion.

• • Travels to meet with each client at least twice annually to learn more about the client’s services and goals and to present key strategies that will grow their programs.

• • Maintains regular contact with each assigned client to discuss current and upcoming projects via conference calls and webinars.

• • Prepares conference reports with action items after each meeting and communicates them both to the clients as a follow-up and to the respective agency teams for execution.

• • Demonstrates strong agency knowledge of clients and services as well as agency systems and processes for effective communication between creative, production (print and digital), and administrative teams.

• • Effectively sets up accounts, opens projects, builds briefs, enters client campaign participation, and fulfills billing requirements in Microsoft Dynamics. Reviews all data entry to ensure accuracy.

• • Demonstrates mastery of Microsoft Dynamics including data entry responsibilities, processes, bulk edit functions, and data entry audits. Reviews Power BI reports to ensure accurate Microsoft Dynamics data entry.

• • Participates in the pre-creative and tactical process for the creative development of direct mail packages.

• • Skillfully navigates and performs assigned projects within the company’s e-Tools (project management systems and creative proofing programs/applications).

• • Ensures comprehensive and concise communication between internal and external Client teams in client calls and internal status meetings.

• • Performs advanced-level Excel and database work.

• • Serves as a support contact for issues or activities that a client may encounter. Works and interfaces with various internal departments as needed.

• • Keeps team and supervisor informed of project status and needs. Adheres to project deadlines.

• • Initiates follow-up and preparation of materials following tele-conferences and onsite strategy visits.

• • Works with the Account Director to draft and distribute conference reports.

• • Coordinates and performs client service administrative tasks related to assigned clients and projects.

• • Participates in trade shows/conferences, as may be required, by representing BDI and sharing information on company services.

• • Manages special projects or assignments as may be required.

• • Other team and client support as necessary.

Skills & Abilities

Relationship Building: Must be friendly, trustworthy, knowledgeable, and professional. Must demonstrate ability to establish and develop relationships with prospects and serve as an ambassador of BDI. Positive attitude, good team player.

Communication Skills: Must demonstrate an advanced ability to read, analyze, and interpret agency documents, and respond effectively to inquiries. Must demonstrate good grammar, punctuation, and proofreading skills. The position requires regular contact both inside and outside the agency.

Reasoning Skills: Must demonstrate ability to define problems, collect data, interpret, and understand data and analyses, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Must be extremely efficient, organized, process-oriented, and resourceful.

Computer Skills: Must demonstrate proficiency in the use and knowledge of integrated computer systems and business-related software such as Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Workfront, and Dynamics and quickly learn, understand, and seamlessly implement the operation of the agency’s e-Tools.

Excel Skills: The Account Executive must be able to pass both the intermediate and advanced Excel assessment – demonstrating proficient formula use, an understanding of the questions data can answer, and the ability to read data within a spreadsheet. In addition, to handling the formulas, the Account Executive should also know how to debug them, work-around them, use shortcuts, customize, audit them, and use the formulas appropriately to pursue the answers the team is requiring.

Decision Making and Problem Solving: Must demonstrate strong decision-making, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills. Must be proactive, self motivated, and able to take initiative, focus, and prioritize tasks.

Attention to Detail: Must pay close attention to detail and demonstrate excellent follow-through.Must be punctual, flexible, and able to function well in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines.

Education Requirements & Qualifications:

• • BA or BS ideally in Marketing, Communications, Advertising, Business, Analytics, or a related field.

• • Minimum of 4 years of advertising agency/marketing and communications experience is required.

Work Environment:

• • Professional services office environment.

• • Frequent travel to conferences and prospect sites is required.

To apply for a position, email your resume and cover letter to  HR@BrewerDirect.com. No phone calls please.