Associate Account Strategist

Dotdash Meredith is looking for an Associate Account Strategist to play an integral role in bringing our client’s campaigns to life and ensuring that we meet and exceed their goals. With your critical thinking, tenacity and analytical skills, you will partner with sales, marketing and ad operations pre-to-post-sale to ensure our premium advertising campaigns exceed performance goals. You will leverage your strong communication skills to collaborate with internal teams and clients to bring campaigns to life. You are a growth-oriented, positive self-starter that proactively uncovers ways we can improve our ad offerings and the service we provide clients. You are self-motivated and look for proactive ways to provide the best possible client service to ultimately grow our partnerships.

Hybrid 3x a week- New York City

In-office Expectations: This position is hybrid in-office, with the ability to work remotely for up to 2 days per week.

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About Your Role

The Account Strategist acts as an internal sales representative responsible for the conceiving, managing and executing online marketing initiatives and management of all advertising programs and associated revenue pre- and post-sale. This includes media plan creation, campaign implementation, optimization, reporting, program retention and renewal, and ensuring prompt and proper resolution of advertiser business issues.

About Your Contributions

• Respond to RFPs, develop media plans in line with strategic marketing goals.

• Execute and implement advertising campaigns to ensure delivery and performance. Includes taking a leadership role to coordinate efforts between other cross-functional teams as necessary to implement custom elements. Position interfaces with Ad Product and Creative.

• Embody white glove service to our clients and serve as the internal and external point of contact for execution, particularly in post-sale

• Work with Ad Operations to ensure clients’ ads are trafficked, monitored, and optimized.

• Maximize campaign performance and company revenue by coordinating reports to further increase success rate and renew/grow current business.

• Update contract management system with campaign change orders (campaign delays, optimizations, etc.) and alert team of changes that will affect revenue.

About You

• 4-year degree required; marketing or business degree preferred. Additional digital marketing or sales experience may substitute for education on a year-for-year basis.

• Minimum of 1 years of marketing, sales and/or account management experience; ideally one year of digital advertising experience. Project management experience is a plus.

• Possess excellent organizational, interpersonal, and influential written and verbal communication skills. Ability to quickly form relationships usually by telephone or email.

• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally; ability to exercise judgment and flexibility in balancing program requirements, milestones, and keeping people and projects moving on schedule.

• High attention to detail. Strong analytical, quantitative and strategic problem solving. Excellent grammar, spelling and proofreading skills.

• Positive and confident disposition when responding to frequent deadlines for multiple customers (internal and external).

• High degree of proficiency in MS Office products. Ability to use databases. Excellent working knowledge of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and the Internet.

• Demonstrated ability to quickly build positive team relationships.

• Be able to think strategically and act tactically.