Technical Account Supervisor (6 month FTC)
DEPT
- Toronto, ON
- Contract
- Full-time
- Lead email/CRM projects, taking high-level briefs and requests from clients, interrogating them with the team, creating briefs with other account leads, planning them into the schedule and following through implementation.
- Manage briefs from start-to-finish, ensuring successful delivery to deadlines across multiple campaigns.
- Liaise with clients and manage expectations, clarify dependencies, issues and risks to any projects.
- Communicate feedback to designers, copywriters and developers; plan and manage workloads of the team.
- Oversee workflow processes for designers, copywriters and developers; ensure the processes are efficient and aligned to client needs/deadlines.
- Establish (when necessary), maintain and adjust QA processes for development projects.
- Ensure feedback requirements are met whilst protecting Opendoor's values/brand.
- Build a full understanding of Opendoor's business, strategies, objectives, brand, audiences and challenges, advising on the communications solution that best meets their needs, with a view to becoming their trusted adviser.
- Work closely with creative and strategy teams and to have oversight of all statements of work/proposals.
- Ensure the right team is in place to deliver and maintain high standards while adding value wherever possible. Meet success criteria as projects are delivered to time and to budget.
- Report back to management with internal and external issues and events that might impact accounts, either positively or negatively.
- Stay current with good knowledge of all DEPT® products and services and actively promote them to clients.
- Maintain a strategic overview of assigned accounts, running regular internal client-facing account reviews. Prove how we are meeting our clients' objectives through metrics, feedback, research, etc.
- Delegate and allocate responsibilities efficiently to manage projects end-to-end.
- Effectively lead teams and inspire others to achieve goals through innovation, quality and excellence.
- Encourage team interaction, boost employee motivation and appreciate team contribution.
- Match project tasks with opportunities for development so that employee potential is utilised to the maximum.
- Mentor, train and manage junior account managers and apprenticeships where available
- Conduct performance reviews of team members and identify areas for improvement, give feedback and recommend for promotions or salary increases.
- Demonstrable agency experience in Client Services, preferably in a Senior Account Manager/Account Supervisor role already
- Experience delivering a broad range of multi-channel marketing communications including digital and direct, CRM and email marketing
- Extremely organised, able to talk about tools and processes used for project management
- Experience in / knowledge of CRM platforms is essential (ex. Salesforce, Braze, etc.); familiarity with Iterable is highly preferred
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines with ease and efficiency
- Deep understanding of production and interactive processes
- Commercially driven with experience handling budgets and timelines
- Proven business development experience and success
- Advanced working knowledge of MacBook Office Suite and Google suite
- Resource management skills and ability to handle complex / sensitive issues
- Experience leading others directly or as a mentor
- Personal qualities:
- Proactive - you seek out new opportunities
- Self-motivated - you take ownership of your own success and inspire others
- Positive - a force that energises your team and the people around you
- Strategic -you pore over the facts for the benefit of long term views
- Curious - you question anything in order to change everything
- Technologically savvy
- Strong emotional intelligence
- Possibilities to do what you do best and to develop your skills further with training,development and certifications
- Flexible working: you have the choice to work from our office or remotely, and we have core working hours where you can choose your start and finish times to suit you
- 15 days paid holiday exclusive of bank holidays
- Buddy Program: You will be paired with a 'Buddy' to help you through your first weeks' at DEPT®
- Annual social budget which is used for team events (think virtual escape rooms or a gaming competitions), as well as away-days, and meals out
- Free refreshments provided in the office all week, as well as drinks at 4pm on a Friday.
- We celebrate successes by rewarding teams when big projects go-live and honouring the year's top achievements at our annual awards ceremony
- Good company: DEPT® is dedicated to becoming the best digital agency in and for the world. We are committed to becoming B Corp Certified.