Account Executive

Open position in Dallas, TX; Hybrid work schedule; 3 days in the office, 2 days working from home

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position, now or in the future. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis without requiring employer sponsorship.

Please note: We are not actively hiring for this position at this time, but anticipate opening the role in the near future. If you’re interested in being considered for this future opportunity, we encourage you to apply and join our talent pipeline.

Overview:

LOOMIS is looking to add to our pack several sharp, passionate individual to join our account team. You will have the opportunity to stretch yourself across disciplines building experience. As the Account Executive, your key role is to be the client's go-to person and keep all work moving through the agency. You are the communication conduit throughout the shop.

Bring your curiosity, creativity, and passion every day and it will be matched with a talented team who loves what they do and who they work with. LOOMIS has been recognized as a "Best Places to Work" seventeen times.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (Other duties may be assigned)

The Account Executive position requires the ability and skill to manage the agency’s day-to-day relationship with client contacts.

• Earn and keep each clients’ respect and confidence as a trusted advisor bringing value to their business through a strong commitment to success, consistent performance, and the ability to develop a wide range of ideas and solutions
• Demonstrate confidence and authority as the day-to-day voice of the agency team
• Develop creative briefs
• Define project scope, create estimates, and work with PM to create project specifications and time plans
• Ensure team members have the information needed to perform the work requested
• Contribute to the work with thoughtful feedback
• Manage execution of assigned client projects with respect to prioritization, timeliness, accuracy
• Contribute to the creative process; add ideas to the work to make it better

Qualifications - To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The ideal candidates will have 2-4 years of experience either on the client or agency side working on multi-unit retail brands.
• History being a conduit between the client and agency’s media and creative teams
• Experience communicating effectively with Creative team to drive the best product. Understand the process, how to judge creative work and provide constructive feedback.
• Possess an understanding of the media process (including flowcharts) and the impact media has on creative needs, production, and budgets
• Possess a clear understanding of the production process (for print, broadcast, digital, photo and video production, and promotions)

Organization Skills

The Account Executive is essentially the owner of client projects and thus must demonstrate an ability to organize workload and workflow.

• Effectively plan and organize the work of you and your team – handling multiple projects efficiently, effectively, and productively
• Provide effective and efficient oversight of agency resources to ensure projects are delivered as promised in terms of time, budgets, and results

Presentation/Selling Skills

• As Account Executive, you are expected to effectively present the agency’s decisions, recommendations, and creative product to a range of client audiences.

Written Communication Skills

• The Account Executive must be able to develop persuasive summary and recommendation documents for presentation to client and agency decision-makers

Core Values

• Embrace the entrepreneurial spirit. Find opportunity, serve well, and sell value
• Be driven. Hustle, do, chase, and innovate
• Act as team players. Consider others, unite people, and please don’t say 'not my job'
• Solve problems. Find answers, solve problems, learn, and be curious
• Show trustworthiness. Be transparent and honest