Spool is hiring a Sr. Account Executive to join our team in Chicago, IL. This role will work within the food, beverage and CPG spaces and will be responsible for supporting and managing key accounts. This role will be have a high focus on consumer media relations and story development for brands within the food, beverage and CPG spaces.

Our ideal candidate is highly proficient and enthusiastic about all aspects of media relations, with the ability to find, develop and tell a strong and engaging story that hooks media – and consumer – interest on behalf of our clients. You’ll both manage key accounts and support some others, allowing you to work across Spool’s exciting client portfolio and alongside awesome colleagues. You’re able to manage both up and down and be a trusted leader for our clients to work with closely. You will be a strong writer, trend spotter and creative brainstormer who isn’t afraid to share ideas and opinions, and you will also be a great team player who knows how to link arms and work across practices and disciplines to develop great work together (and have some fun and laughs along the way!).

Requirements:
Develops a strong understanding of Spool’s clients’ business and target audience, and work with client team to create and deliver solutions that meet program objectives

Monitor media outlets, understand industry issues that directly and indirectly affect the client, and analyze and distill meaningful insights from media coverage

Generate story ideas and topic angles, draft media materials, and pitch media to land earned coverage

Develop strategic messaging for clients and support creation of media plans and proposals that take an integrated approach to driving awareness with target audiences

Leverage influencers (e.g. advocates, bloggers/vloggers and other relatable voices) to impact clients, their brands and marketing goals

Provide thoughtful recommendations for content creation and distribution across multiple channels to support paid, owned and earned channels

Ability to conduct quick, thorough research

Ability to develop and write C-suite ready research summaries

Support creative ideation on a consistent basis

Serve as a role model to team members

Daily trend-spotting across food and beverage, innovation, sustainability, wellness, tech and other relevant topics

Manages vendors to ensure budget adherence and value of services purchased

Demonstrates ability to troubleshoot and to facilitate discussions between client and agency billing departments

Actively participate in agency development and assist with new business

Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

3+ years' of relevant experience

Organized and able to multi-task

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Prior experience in an agency environment strongly preferred

Strong business acumen and familiarity with the food and CPG and beverage brands

The ability to act as a daily client contact and to be responsible for client-related finance management, including managing large projects within budget

Demonstrates excellent writing, editing, and presentation-development skills; project management skills; and consultative skills (including effective questions, critical thinking, client management and framework and methodology application)

Job Title: Senior Account Executive

Company Name: Spool Marketing

Salary: USD 69,000.00
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USD 90,000.00

Job Industry: Marketing and Advertising

Job Type: Full time

WorkPlace Type: remote

Location: Chicago, ,

Skills:
Must be eighteen years of age or older.

Job Description:

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Job Title: Senior Account Executive

Company Name: Spool Marketing

Salary: USD 69,000.00 - USD 90,000.00

Job Industry: Marketing and Advertising

Job Type: Full time

WorkPlace Type: remote

Location: Chicago, ,

Skills: Must be eighteen years of age or older.

Job Description:

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