Account Executive

Role: Account Executive

Location: Toronto, ON

About the role:

OLIVER’s Account Executives play a pivotal role in the running of our in-house agency teams. In our world, they are true hybrids with both client facing experience and solid project management skills.  We are looking for a dynamic account person who has experience in an advertising agency or design firm setting who can support the account team in building solid relationships with clients in their efforts to take jobs from brief to completion providing outstanding customer service along the way. 

What you will be doing:

• Build estimates and timelines
• Writing tactical briefs and providing internal direction to resourced team members (creative and studio)
• Evaluate work based on briefs
• Manage status reports and client status meetings
• Take client notes and share among team, setting follow up actions as needed
• Oversee projects coming in and out of the production studio
• Tracking time on projects through our time and entry system
• Keep informed and up to date on industry innovations that the clients can learn from and share with the team
• Set up meetings/calls, include the appropriate team members
• Provide accurate agendas, detailed notes & actionable next steps
• Enter jobs in Project Workflow Technology, issuing POs and invoices
• Able to take direction as wel as be a self-starter
• Collaborate with remote and on-site teams to obtain assets and product information
• Assist on other projects as needed

What you need to be great in this role:

• 1-3 years of experience in an Account Coordinator, Assistant Account Executive or Junior Project Manager role
• 1-3 years of experience working at an advertising agency experience or in-house creative team
• 1-3 years of experience working on print and digital creative projects, a clear understanding of digital and social channels.
• A strong desire to help out where needed, clear examples of prior experience supporting account teams
• A maturity and comfort talking to clients, previous experience presenting information to clients
• 1-2 years of experience creating billing detail, tracking hours and project budgets
• At the time of this posting, the base salary for this position may range from $55,250.00 CAD to $61,750.00 CAD. Individual compensation varies based on job related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. The range listed is just one component of OLIVER’s total compensation package.

Req ID: 14315

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