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About the Role
This role offers an exciting opportunity to work on a financial services client based in Toronto, supporting a national service offering. You will have the opportunity to create bold and exciting work that makes a lasting impact.
Responsibilities
- Be the key senior day-to-day point of contact for client and internal team; must have a proven track record of building trusting, professional relationships internally, with clients, and partners
- Maintain proactive communication with GAD and/or MD on account status
- Manage and execute fully integrated campaigns with a balance between digital/interactive/social marketing focus and traditional above the line
- Influence, drive, and sell integrated strategic initiatives
- Impact the development of the highest quality of creative work by sharing knowledge of the client’s business/brand/category and demonstrating strong creative judgment
- Cultivate strong relationships and partner effectively with all internal agency functions
- Work with strategic and creative partners to helps devise short + long term strategies and opportunities for client with creative opportunities and revenue growth
- Proactively lead annual planning processes, SOW, and resource allocations
- Oversee account administration, strong fiscal acumen, driving process; troubleshoots day-to-day account issues with ease
- Own the communication between agency, client and partner agencies (media, retail, digital, PR, etc.) to ensure seamless collaboration
- Be responsible for direct reports, professional development, and performance reviews
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in advertising creative agency
- Experience managing financial service accounts
- Experience on 360 project management with bilingual execution
- Strong financial reporting, forecasting and BCR management
- An amazing relationship builder who is entrepreneurial in spirit – we want a champion of creative thinking who embraces a challenge
- Ability to work under pressure and rally team to meet deadlines in a fast-paced creative environment – independently takes initiative with thorough follow-up ability
- Extensive Digital and Broadcast Production experience is essential
- Incredibly well organized, collaborative, receptive to change, laser focused on detail
- From time to time, after hours work and overnight traveling to meetings, shoots and/or post sessions may be required
Skills
- Digital marketing
- Interactive marketing
- Social marketing
- Traditional marketing
- Creative judgment
- Strategic planning
- Financial reporting
- Forecasting
- BCR management
- Relationship building
- Entrepreneurial spirit
- Creative thinking
- Project management
- Bilingual execution
- Digital production
- Broadcast production
- Organization
- Collaboration
- Adaptability
- Attention to detail
Location
- Toronto
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $95,000 to $110,000 CAD
About the Company
- Founded on the belief that the world needs more creativity, Z.A.K. aims to combat ineffective, badly crafted work and create impactful campaigns. As a purpose-driven company, Z.A.K. also uses its creativity to support causes it believes in. With 200 staff in New York, Toronto, and Vancouver, Z.A.K. attracts top global talent.
- Zulu Alpha Kilo uses artificial intelligence systems in the recruitment process to screen, assess, or select applicants but all hiring decisions are made by humans.
Equal Opportunity
- Zulu Alpha Kilo is an equal opportunity employer. It prohibits discrimination based on age, colour, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and any other legally protected class in accordance with applicable federal, provincial, and local laws. Zulu Alpha Kilo is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace. If you are contacted for an interview and require accommodation during the interviewing process, please let us know.