Senior Marketing Account Executive - Hybrid

The Senior Marketing Account Executive (hybrid - onsite in Bentonville, AR and remote) is the primary interface between Quad and our client ensuring that we are delivering the client’s objectives on a company and project basis. This team sits on-site with the client and becomes engrained in their culture, which allows us to build strong relationships with all internal and external team members as we execute marketing programs.

This role will manage all major marketing programs from beginning to end, so a deep understanding of marketing and all of its channels, especially digital, is essential to being successful. Team members are expected to build timelines collaboratively and keep cross-functional teams accountable to their committed dates while they lead the teams through each step of the marketing process.

The successful individual in this role will need to be a natural leader, adaptable, resourceful, a great communicator, confident, and have a solution-oriented approach. 

Required Qualifications

• Develop and maintain positive and productive long-term relationships with key client contacts
• Achieve and maintain a spirit of teamwork and cooperation within the on-site team, external teams, and agency partners
• Collaborate cross-functionally with teams across the country, either as a lead or in a specified lane within the marketing process
• Actively lead Executive and Officer level meetings with the client’s leadership team and drive clarity via verbal and written confirmation of outcomes
• Possess an in-depth understanding of the client’s business objectives and culture
• Confidently lead all cross-functional meetings and ensure the team stays on target with the next steps 
• Model positivity in all engagements with others (at all levels) to demonstrate Quad culture and ideals
• Demonstrate excellent organization skills and detail in managing multiple initiatives
• Juggle multiple projects and timelines simultaneously, adapting actions to ever-shifting priorities
• Evaluate and monitor the quality and performance of all projects under the scope of responsibility
• Prioritize projects and responsibilities; understand the sense of urgency for each project
• Resolve issues and handle opportunities quickly and effectively
• Possess the ability to identify client needs and assess how we can help
• Proactively identify process challenges, bringing solutions to the client
• Create, document, train for, and implement new processes
• Demonstrate thought leadership and think strategically in each campaign and how to best execute
• Show willingness and aptitude to train new team members
• Display excellent communication skills, verbally, non-verbally, and in writing
• Ability to identify and communicate opportunities for the continued growth of business
• Commit to continuing to learn, develop, and expand in skills and knowledge
• Marketing or agency experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.  Appropriate education and/or experience may be substituted on an equivalent basis.  
• 2 to 4 years of experience including: retail marketing, corporate marketing department, and advertising agency
• Project Management experience 
• Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint
• Ability to learn proprietary software programs and systems utilized by Quad or the client