Senior Account Manager

Deep Blue Sports + Entertainment is a pioneering firm dedicated to advancing the business of women’s sports. We are looking for an Senior Account Manager sitting within the firm’s Agency Services vertical, who is passionate about helping brands expand their investments by managing projects and activations for brands to engage in the growing world of women’s sports. 

As Senior Account Manager you will lead as the primary relationship builder between the client and our agency. The ideal candidate is a go-getter with high expectations for themselves who is hungry for the next opportunity to learn and grow. They’re also looking for ways to make agency operations stronger and structured, while running projects efficiently. This role demands a unique blend of account management, project management, and a passion for women's sports to help drive measurable results for our clients. You will work across a number of brands and lead a number of projects, spanning from strategy and sponsorship opportunities, to more traditional brand campaigns and activations that position our clients as leaders in the dynamic space of women’s sports.

This role will be working out of our NY office 1-2 days a week.

Responsibilities

• Support the Business Director with day-to-day client relationship management, managing client expectations and anticipating client needs for short-term and long-term projects.
• Establishing and maintaining trusting relationships with clients and partners.
• Lead selected projects as the central point of communication across all internal cross-functional teams to help team members prioritize workloads to meet deadlines.
• Manage and monitor project lifecycle, including finance docs, estimates, and SOWs.
• Plan, coordinate, manage and facilitate the workflows of multiple projects to ensure completion on time and within budget, across a variety of accounts. 
• Develop project timelines based on client milestones and team bandwidth realities, while managing timeline shifts and communicating impact to work streams internally and externally.
• Coordinate meetings and reviews, recap feedback, decisions and deliverables in writing for dissemination, ensuring clear next steps for clients and internal teams.
• Manage client finance documents to ensure we’re staying on track with billing and invoicing.
• Ensure the integration of other departments and resources at necessary milestones during the development process (e.g. production, business & legal affairs, etc). 
• Monitor and enforce project constraints (schedule / scope / resources), raising issues to the Business Director and Leadership as needed.
• Maintain upkeep of client or project folders and Slack channels.
• Create and maintain account/project status reports.
• Keep teams highly motivated.
• Seek out opportunities for business growth with existing or new clients.
• Keep a pulse on women’s sports industry trends and share finding thoughts with internal teams.

Requirements

• 3+ years experience managing accounts and projects in an agency setting; Experience in sports marketing is a plus.
• Ability to foster trusting relationships with clients and teammates across functions
• Experience in presenting and owning conversations with clients both directly and as part of an inter-agency environment
• Resourceful, proactive and buttoned-up management skills; comfortable with delegation
• Effective written, verbal, and visual communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills that encourage cross-coastal team collaboration, and foster trust with clients and teammates
• Ability to effectively manage up and down.
• Acute attention to detail.
• Familiarity with Google Suite, Slack and Microsoft Office
• Open to travel as necessary

Preferred Skills

• Experience working on fully-integrated campaigns.
• Loving ‘never-done-before’ challenges, shifting deadlines and wearing multiple hats.
• Genuine desire to learn.
• Familiarity with professional women’s sports leagues, NIL, and the key drivers of growth in the industry.

The anticipated annual salary range for this position is $85,000 - $100,000. Salary is determined based on a wide range of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, job duties, and geographic location. For this role, we also offer programs such as medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and various other benefits and perks.

Deep Blue Sports + Entertainment is a company that strives to build an inclusive workplace dynamically rooted in our differences. What makes you, you, is your greatest asset here. No matter your race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, protected veteran status, disabled status, genetic information, or other protected category—feel comfortable (and excited) to bring your full self and make smart, impactful work.

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