Senior Account Director

ABOUT US
tms unites technology, marketing, and sourcing to drive transformational change for the world's leading brands. With 1,200+ employees across 26 countries, we offer an impressive range of solutions - from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery.
Operating as a creative agency, a strategic consultancy, a sourcing business, and a technology provider, we engage with over 110 million customers every single day for our clients, including McDonald's, T-Mobile, O2, Starbucks, and adidas.
Most importantly, we're a place where you can achieve great things, and be recognized as the best.
WHAT MATTERS THE MOST
Breakthrough, business-driving ideas come from extraordinary people with the freedom to be their most authentic selves at work. Authenticity and diversity are critical elements of our business. They can only be realized when we create access and equity for all. We foster a culture of inclusion and belonging and aspire to be ever-evolving.
tms is a place where brilliant people are better together. If you want your ideas to be heard and to contribute to a culture of inclusion and authenticity, bring us your voice! Visit us at tmsw.com.
WHY WE THINK YOU WILL LOVE THIS ROLE
You are a passionate and thoughtful Sr. Account Director for our strategic-thinking, creative-idea-generating, client-problem-solving community, giving a voice for our client's business, marketing, and overall brand presence.
The ideal candidate will be innovative, collaborative, have people leadership experience and be driven by a desire to continuously build the agency clients brands and to re-define what's possible in customer engagement and experiences.
WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THE ORGANIZATION
Building valuable client relationships

• You understand clients' business and business issues and serve as a trusted advisor to drive extraordinary solutions
• You will lead and contribute to new strategies and generate ideas for clients, represent client interests and clearly communicate to internal team
• Be a champion of extraordinary work - by providing inspiration, leadership and expertise in the agency's offerings

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO HAVE

• Financial Services (FinTech, Global Exchanges, Options & Trading, etc.) marketing experience or interest in trading- equities/ options, FinTech
• A track record of success building high-impact, strategic relationships with clients. Develop long-term strategies to sustain, diversify and grow client relationships across and extend agency services.
• Become a subject matter expert in the clients' industry, company and competition. Develop trust-based relationships with senior clients and their teams. Deeply understand the client's business, their organization's ecosystem and brand and marketing challenges so you can act as a trusted business partner and marketing consultant.
• Demonstrated experience working with major brands to support strategic brand communications using integrated omni-channel marketing campaigns
• Lead brand strategies and evolve product marketing platforms, including campaigns, activation strategies, content strategy and operations initiatives to drive brand-building and product marketing objectives.
• Build a cohesive team across departments, disciplines and the agency partners, in the service of the clients - to support operationally sound, effective delivery of the agency's committed scope. Foster high client satisfaction in everything we deliver.
• Experience in developing and executing integrated marketing programs that include multi-channel executions.
• Strong understanding of the analytics and insights needed to demonstrate brand and customer success metrics.
• People leadership experience for direct reports and experience leading cross-functional teams. Innovator with a desire to bring people together. Innate ability to marshal people and create gravity around ideas.
• Willingness to embrace the unknown and ready to break process through innovation. You'll be excited by opportunities to explore new ideas rather than rely on existing paradigms, and you view technology as a tool that can drive this creativity and innovation. Willingness to investigate, assess and adapt with innovation trends and new technologies to drive effectiveness and efficiency.
• Strong knowledge of industry including trends in the evolving business and agency industry environment.
• Proven experience managing financials including estimating, forecasting and reconciliation.

Starting salary between $150,000-$175,000
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TOTAL REWARDS
Our total rewards philosophy integrates programs for compensation, benefits, recognition, learning and development, corporate culture, corporate citizenship and work-life balance. While individual program components may differ by country, some things remain constant:

• Our commitment to rewarding results
• Opportunities to work with talented and driven individuals at every level of our company who respect each other, treat each other fairly and hold one another accountable for our customers'-and our company's-success

There's more ...
Generous medical, dental, vision and other great benefits
Paid parental and medical leave programs
401(k) with a company match component and profit sharing
15 days of paid time off plus company holidays
Hybrid work model
Tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment assistance
Inclusive employee resource groups
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
RECRUITING AGENCIES
tms does not accept agency resumes submitted by third-party vendors unless a valid agreement has been signed and the tms Talent Acquisition Team has granted authorization for submissions for a specified position. Please do not submit or forward resumes to our site, tms employees, or any other company location. tms is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Nearest Major Market: Chicago