Sr Account Manager / Account Director - Experiential, Beauty Industry

Jack Morton is seeking a proactive and energetic candidate to collaborate with the greater Jack team to become a trusted partner and deliver exceptional onsite programs for our beauty industry client. Ensure flawless event execution through clear communication, strong partner relationships, and proactive problem-solving.

Here's the job:

• Serve as the primary support contact for all Jack programming, working onsite at the client location half of the time.
• Create, manage, and coordinate key project meetings with client stakeholders and partner agencies, ensuring clear communication and alignment.
• Oversee ideation, collaboration, coordination, production, and execution of JMW activations.
• Lead and manage a team of staff/partners on-site for store launch activations.
• Build and maintain strong relationships and open communication with vendors and partners.
• Direct JMW disciplines as needed to develop and execute client deliverables.
• Manage budgets for assigned programs.

Success Measures:

• Deep trusted advisor relationships with the client
• Flawless delivery of client commitments, exceeding client expectations
• Positive team climate that inspires others to excel and deliver
• Seen as a valuable leader of project and client teams

How you can support our culture:

• You enjoy and succeed at working REALLY well with others
• You support and contribute to a positive and productive cultural environment
• You take your work seriously - but not yourself

What we require:

• At least 8 years of experiential marketing/client services/agency experience
• Strong relationship building skills
• Ability to identify and pursue opportunities to expand agency services with client
• Strong project management, organizational and communication skills
• Understanding of media planning and buying processes and ability to collaborate effectively with media agencies
• Must be local to Chicago, IL, onsite at client location 4 days/week, 2 weeks/month
• Travel required, multiple Friday events
• Experience and/or interest in beauty industry preferred

Jack Morton and Genuine are equal opportunity employers;we strongly value diversity at our companies. We do not discriminate on race, religion, color, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law. In 2020, Jack Morton and Genuine, as part of Interpublic Group (IPG), have been named to the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index (GEI), and Jack Morton has once again been designated a Best Place To Work For LGBTQ Workplace Equality by the Human Rights Campaign in their Corporate Equality Index.