About the Role
We are looking for a proactive, highly organized, and client-centric Account Supervisor to manage day-to-day operations across key integrated client accounts in dynamic retail environments. You will serve as the primary operational anchor and day-to-day liaison for clients, ensuring complex 360-degree campaigns are delivered flawlessly, on strategy, on schedule, and on budget. While this position has no direct reports, you will act as a pivotal project lead, collaborating closely with cross-functional agency teams to drive campaign momentum, solve operational challenges, and foster strong client relationships.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the main day-to-day contact for client brand and retail marketing teams, maintaining clear communication and high levels of client trust.
- Manage client expectations on timelines, deliverables, scope, and budget, ensuring proactive status reporting and clear meeting agendas/recap documentation.
- Understand the client’s business goals, retail environment, promotional calendar, and brand guidelines to ensure agency output aligns with commercial objectives.
- Oversee the end-to-end execution of integrated campaigns across multiple channels (digital, TV/video, print, OOH, social, CRM, e-commerce, and point-of-sale/retail activations).
- Partner with strategy and creative leads to steward work from creative brief approval through final production and campaign launch.
- Monitor project workflows, risk factors, and approval stages, ensuring all internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams meet key milestones.
- Manage asset delivery schedules, retail store/dealer collateral distribution lists, and digital channel specs.
- Manage account finances, including project scoping, fee tracking, production estimates, client approvals, and monthly billing reconciliations.
- Partner with production and finance teams to ensure projects remain profitable and within approved budget parameters.
- Track project scope changes proactively, issuing change orders or scope adjustments as needed.
- Collaborate with media and analytics teams to monitor campaign performance, gather insights, and deliver post-campaign reporting to clients.
- Maintain a deep curiosity about retail trends, shopper behavior, and competitive activity in the client’s industry.
Requirements
- 4–6 years of account management experience within an advertising, marketing, or digital agency environment.
- Proven track record of executing multi-channel, 360-degree integrated campaigns (digital, social, video, CRM, and retail/POS collateral).
- Experience working with clients operating in physical retail, e-commerce, FMCG/CPG, or automotive dealer ecosystems is highly preferred.
- Comfort managing project budgets, estimates, vendor costs, and billing processes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to lead client meetings confidently.
- Exceptional project management and multi-tasking abilities in a fast-paced environment.
- Able to drive initiatives forward independently, anticipate client needs, and solve problems proactively.
- Natural ability to build strong working relationships across creative, strategic, media, and production departments.
- Meticulous approach to proofing, campaign specs, timing plans, and financial tracking.
Skills
- Client Relationship Management
- Integrated Campaign Execution
- Project Orchestration
- Account Operations
- Financial Management
- Performance Tracking
- Retail Trends Analysis
- Shopper Behavior Analysis
- Competitive Activity Analysis
- Communication Skills
- Project Management
- Multi-tasking
- Collaboration
- Attention to Detail
Location
- Kansas City
- New York
- Detroit
- London
- São Paulo
- Shanghai
- Singapore
- Sydney
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Salary/Compensations
- $65,000—$115,000 CAD
About the Company
- VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth.
- VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's.
- The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization.
- VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies.
- VML’s global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets.
- WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.
- WPP unites cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.
Equal Opportunity
- WPP (VML) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics.
- We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
