Account Coordinator

Are you a relationship builder who excels at delivering client needs and working with agency team members? Are you detail oriented and able to multitask?  Do you want to understand Web, print and broadcast production processes? Do you love working with creatives who never have been to prison (yet)? If that's all a yes, then doing stuff like day-to-day status, estimates and conference reports will be a duh for you. You're starting to sound like the perfect candidate and we haven't even met. Let's remedy that.

Call us. Email us. Send us your resume in a letter or tube.  We don’t care. But we do care about great work and we need people who care as much as we do. If that looks like the person who stares you in the mirror in the morning, let’s talk.

Big River helps companies build brands by skillfully blending traditional advertising, public relations and digital, social and interactive media. We focus on helping our clients align their organizations to grow their brands from the inside out.mwinegar@yourbigriver.com

Job Description:

• Provides support to the agency, and client team in order to ensure smooth and efficient running of the day-to-day business between Big River, clients and our partners.
• Develops and maintains positive relationships with clients, practicing professional judgment at all times.
• Fields requests from client and/or team to ensure that requested modifications (e.g., copy or layout changes) are documented communicated and implemented.
• Continually learns about the client’s business and markets.
• Assists the team with logistics and scheduling of events, meetings, sessions and presentations.
• Works with account team to organizing input for project briefings.
• Thinks through implications and develops next steps during meetings, conversations or whenever project parameters change. Prepares client contact reports.
• Keeps entire team informed of project status and/or changes. Maintains weekly status reports.
• Proofs correspondence, presentations, documents, print ads and digital, maintaining agency’s quality- control standards.
• Assists the account team in managing the development, production, placement and billing of jobs in an organized, error-free manner.
• Provides relevant account knowledge to teams regarding the client, its industry and its competitors by collecting information from established sources and creating items such as competitive analysis.
• Builds a positive relationship with clients, agency, partners and vendors.

Skills and Qualifications

• Works in an organized and efficient manner. Manages detail very well.
• Takes initiative and demonstrates the ability to anticipate problems and opportunities.
• Is proactive and resourceful.
• Assumes ownership and accountability for assigned projects.
• Is a dependable, helpful, positive and effective team member.
• Is flexible.  Works well under pressure. Maintains a professional presence.
• Proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Keynote.
• Has strong attention to detail.
• Excellent proofing skills a plus.

Big River is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace.

Interested? Send your resume to Molly Winegar at mwinegar@yourbigriver.com

 

Connections Planner

Are you positive, curious and fearless? Are you creative AND strategic? Are you native digital and social? Do you make big ideas happen in new and unexpected ways and transform them into new platforms and experiences? Do you think of everything as an opportunity to extend the client's message? Do you know how to translate research into culture? Are you constantly Tweeting, Facebooking, Foursquaring or whatevering, not because it's cool, but because you want to be a part of the conversation? Does the idea of building and empowering communities twist your widget? Do you like to lead? Do clients and creative people respect you? Are you a team player?

Our ideal candidate:

• Has at least 3 years agency experience.
• Has a track record of building brands digitally and socially.
• Is part brand/channel planner, tech geek and popular culture junkie.
• Is engaging, smart, fearless and enchanting.
• Is creative, strategic and imaginative while grounded in business realities.
• Lives to create relevant social media platforms.
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, collaborative environment.
• Navigates a flat management hierarchy.
• Hates corporate politics.
• Overcome obstacles, does what others say can't be done and finds a way to say "yes."
• Develops fresh ways to understand brands, categories, culture and conversations.
• Understands research and knows how to use it.
• Develops people. Motivates, mentors and coaches teammates.
• Has a deep understanding of how people use media.
• Turns learning into something interesting.
• Knows that the work is only as inspiring as the brief.
• Loves dogs. But more importantly, dogs love you.

About Us: Big River helps companies build brands by skillfully blending traditional advertising, public relations and digital, social and interactive media. We focus on helping our clients align their organizations to grow their brands from the inside out. Want to know more?

Big River is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace.

Interested? Send your resume to Molly Winegar at mwinegar@yourbigriver.com

 

Social Media Strategist

Overview
Big River is looking for someone with the unique combination of strategic-thinking skills, client-management experience and creative and content production. We need someone who can conceive, research, develop and present interactive strategies, including deep knowledge of mobile, Web, search and social media, based on our clients' objectives and target audiences. The successful candidate will inspire client confidence by developing insightful, high-impact interactive solutions with clear measures of success. Solutions will include the right digital connects, linking back and forth with traditional media.. The successful candidate must be a trendspotter, providing perspectives on emerging directions and platforms. Because the successful candidate will have client contact and help allocate agency resources, he or she must be a natural collaborator who can move effortlessly throughout the different functions of the marketing organization, both within and outside the agency walls.  

Must have proven track record in:
• Working in a collaborative creative environment.
• Being highly organized with the ability to multitask to meet tight deadlines
• The ability to drive business development efforts with existing and new clients.
• Experience integrating cross-functional teams (technology, marketing and creative/design) together in support of programs and campaigns
• Leveraging social media marketing initiatives for listening and engaging, not just broadcasting
• Creating links between brands' social media presence, sales and customer retention
• Successfully managing multiple complex clients and projects simultaneously
• An aptitude for uncovering and analyzing client goals
• Being a persuasive and engaging presenter among business leaders as well as industry peers

 
 Skills and Qualifications:
• Five or more years of experience in any of the following: interactive, advertising, communications, marketing or public relations industries
• Understanding of branding at all levels
• Excellent communication and writing skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Expertise in analytics tools
• Good teacher and listener
• Passion for social media and demonstrated success using it in business
• Ability to explain projects in terms both clients and programmers can understand
• Ability to successfully manage multiple complex clients and projects simultaneously
• A"find a way to solve the problem" attitude

Reports to: Director of Engagement

Big River is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace.

Sound like you? Send your resume to Molly Winegar at mwinegar@yourbigriver.com