Account Executive (Nashville)

Who We Are

Established in 1990, Nashville-based bohan is an independent, full-service advertising and marketing agency. We are straight-talking, advertising experts that grow the brands we serve by creating ideas that work. What makes us different? Nimbleness, no egos and our clients always have a seat at the table. We have major clients in tourism/hospitality, healthcare, retail and restaurants. Accolades include Advertising Age Silver Award for Agency Culture, Advertising Age Southeast Small Agency of the Year and Modern Healthcare Agency of the Year.

Who You Are

A self-starting detail-oriented rock star who can monitor and manage projects from concept to completion. You should be comfortable in a fast-paced environment and be skilled in working with diverse groups of people. You would work day-to-day on the client’s business, manage client programs, needs, and requests, with thoughtful insight and consideration to strategies and timelines to build relationships with clients and our internal teams.

What You Need

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, or related/applicable field
• 2-3 years’ experience in an agency or corporate marketing setting
• Ability to handle many issues, items, and functions at one time and deal rapidly with these in a prioritized sequence
• Special event and associated campaign and/or direct email experience desired
• Ability to set and prioritize goals and achieve them as scheduled
• Demonstrate flexibility to adjust to rapidly changing requirements
• Demonstrate ability to work independently, to act on own initiative, at times with limited supervision
• Desire to learn, willingness to do menial tasks and take on more complex challenges
• Ability and willingness to seek suggestions from peers and employees. Demonstrate the ability and willingness to build and maintain positive relationships quickly
• A desire to lead in a collaborative way that inspires both the agency and client to do great work
• Ability to clearly communicate and assign tasks to all team members
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation, organizational, writing, listening and comprehension skills
• Exemplary problem-solving skills, using a sound system of judgment to thoroughly analyze various options before making a decision

What You Would Do:

• Manage various client programs, including vendor support and special events
• Coordinate delivery of vendor and corporate materials
• Manage timelines of direct email campaigns
• Interact with client-side managers, agency account and creative team, and outside vendors to insure timely completion of projects
• Set timelines for internal and client reviews
• Own marketing/advertising projects with client marketing managers, and build relationships with those varied team members
• Report on projects in weekly update
• Be accountable in agency and client meetings when input, POV or direction is required/suggested, and to be a hand raiser when help from others is needed
• Be the agency’s on-the-ground information source, attending meetings on behalf of the agency and client and reporting back to both
• Intimately understand the client’s business, industry and competition
• Manage implementation of content via content management systems
• Effectively interact with clients in a way that positively impacts the agency relationship, including coordination and presentation of new initiatives, plans, tactics, budgets, and timelines
• Consistently provide relevant news, competitive information and value beyond the client project list
• Handle multiple tasks easily, consistently meeting or exceeding deadlines and client/agency expectations
• Consistently collaborate with team members throughout the work process to foster, facilitate and consistently deliver great work that is on strategy, on time, and on budget
• Collaborate with team to manage all production components as needed – timelines, budget compliance, legal approvals, talent costs, etc.