🔥 Job Title: Account Executive – Advertising agency
📍 Location: Mettawa, IL 60045
🗓 Duration: 12 Months Contract
💼 Work Model: Hybrid (3 days onsite per week)
Description:
We are hiring an Account Executive II to support an internal Ad Agency team within a leading pharmaceutical organization. This role reports directly to an Account Manager and works closely with brand teams, creative partners, and project managers. If you have pharma agency experience and enjoy fast-paced, collaborative environments, this is a strong opportunity.
💡 Position Overview:
The Account Executive acts as a key liaison between the internal ad agency and brand teams. This role supports day-to-day account management, helps move projects through the agency workflow, and ensures work is delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
Teams are lean, typically consisting of an Account Manager and Project Manager, so this role plays a critical support function in keeping everything moving forward.
✅ Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Not required for contractors if experience offsets education
- Required for future full-time conversion
- 3 to 4 years of account management experience within an agency environment is desired.
- Pharmaceutical agency experience strongly preferred. US or Global pharma experience preferred.
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
- Highly organized, proactive, and detail-oriented. Comfortable in a high-visibility support role
- Ability to prioritize and multitask effectively. Strong collaboration and conflict resolution skills
🎯 Key Responsibilities:
- Support development of project briefs in partnership with brand teams
- Recommend promotional tactics aligned with brand strategy and sales goals
- Manage daily client communication and relationship support
- Issue contact reports and ensure stakeholders stay aligned
- Review creative development from concept to completion
- Ensure timelines, budgets, and expectations are met
- Partner with Project Managers to move work through the agency workflow
- Support priority management and issue resolution
- Develop annual forecasts
- Conduct monthly financial reconciliations
- Track time daily
- Maintain compliance with branding, promotional review, and corporate guidelines
- Demonstrate strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills
- Support high-volume projects in a fast-paced creative environment
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