at Rapp Worldwide Illinois in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
RAPP Chicago is looking for a VP, Group Account Director to join our award-winning Account Leadership team.
WHO WE ARE:
RAPP is a global, next-generation precision marketing agency, harnessing data, creativity, technology, and empathy to drive client growth at scale. We stand up for individuality. We speak up against bland, broad-brush generalizations. We fight for solutions that adapt to the individual's needs, beliefs, behaviors, and aspirations. And we commit to doing this in every aspect of our work for clients and their consumers.
We actively foster an inclusive workplace where diversity and individual difference are valued and leveraged to achieve the agency's vision. And most importantly we value every individual's wellbeing.
HOW WE DO IT:
At RAPP we are focused on the individual and how we can create value from every individual's experience with a brand. We do this across three capability areas: customer centric consulting, creativity that inspires action and customer experience management.
Our data analysts know who that person is. Our strategists understand what they want. And our award-winning Technologists and Creatives know how to get it to them.
RAPP is an integral part of Omnicom's Precision Marketing Group, comprising 4,000 creatives, technologists, strategists, and data and marketing scientists across 40 global markets.
YOUR ROLE:
Supports our client's overall mission to modernize their data and marketing technology infrastructure and enable best-in-class marketing strategies to reach target audiences with precision, and effectively track, report and optimize each step of the customer journey. Balance team leadership and managerial responsibilities with subject matter expertise in overseeing and supporting data and platform enablement deliverables. You'll provide sound strategic guidance and leadership to your team, colleagues and senior level clients (SVP and CMO level) and other agency leaders. You will provide guidance to the day-to-day teams and senior leaders responsible for managing our clients' business as well as build relationships with senior clients in our portfolio to identify opportunities for optimization and growth and be a trusted advisor as they lead their teams and organizational transformation. You will be an avid follower of shifts in the data/mar-tech environment and provide guidance to the team and clients as to how to adjust strategy to best position them in the context of these shifts. You will also educate the broader Accound team to ensure we are delivering state-of-the-art counsel and content to our clients. You will serve as an agency leader and contribute significantly to the performance and revenue of the account.You are a true leader who demonstrates passion in all that you do, an entrepreneur, an innovator, and a driver of growth for your clients' businesses and RAPP's.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:
Delivery Management
Develop a sound understanding of clients' business issues, industry, competitors, and brands to help guide clients with articulating their needs, and the agency in developing groundbreaking solutions.
Ensure delivery roadmaps are aligned to client's business needs and strategic business direction.
Collaborate with the functional teams (experience strategy, marketing operations, marketing science and technology) to garner a deep understanding of the current data and technology ecosystem as well as the vision for the future state in order to enhance capabilities for best-in-class marketing.
Develop strategic initiatives to impact client business and drive agency growth.
Hold teams accountable to deliver against client roadmaps and course correct as necessary.
Partner closely with functional and agency leaders to ensure teams are working in an integrated manner to deliver against client goals.
Communicate with credibility to garner trust with executive clients.
Partner closely with other leaders to develop new tools/methodologies and improvements to ways of working that improve the agency's - and clients' performance and profitability.
Bring past knowledge and experience of industry best practices to establish standard operating processes for monitoring performance and predicting anomalies in data and technical capabilities.
Business and Client Management
Build and nurture strategic relationships with key decision makers as well as influencers in the client organization and agency partners.
Understand the role data and technology platforms play within the clients marketing ecosystem and inspire clients as well as agency team to new, innovative platform solutions.
Identify organic growth opportunities and lead associated development plans.
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As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status.
