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Here are three “Can’t Wait” job opportunities from IMRE:

Senior Account Executive (Public Relations Focus), IMRE, Los Angeles, CA

General Summary:

IMRE is looking for a Senior Account Executive with strong experience in consumer communications to join our growing Los Angeles office. SAE should be a public relations superstar, with good technology and consumer media relationships, and a breadth of expertise, including crisis communications, public affairs, employee relations, and media relations. Under the supervision of an Account Director, an SAE serves as a counselor to their clients, their superiors and junior staff members and is able to handle multiple projects with a high degree of confidence, independence and sound judgment. The ideal candidate understands contemporary public relations and is savvy in understanding how digital and social strategies, tactics and evaluation techniques integrate with traditional PR efforts.

Principle Responsibilities and Duties:

• Provides outstanding customer services and serves as the primary contact and liaison between the agency and assigned client in all matters.
• With Account Director, provides overall leadership and direction in recommending short-term and long-range marketing and communications goals and objectives for assigned clients. Leads client teams in planning and developing programs and services, which are consistent with the clients mission and strategic plan.
• Highly detail-oriented practitioner, responsible for client program management and all internal and external communications associated with those programs.
• Leads execution of innovative, technology-forward public relations programs across multiple industries. Has a nose for a good news story and works tirelessly to secure it. Responsible for ensuring the highest quality work is deployed on behalf of clients, and effectively delivers desired results.
• Responsible for the fiscal management of assigned client budget. Accountable for the development, management and evaluation of operating budget, and for achieving objectives while operating within budgeted expense targets.
• Ensures that the client and agency complies with all copyright laws, confidentiality issues and ethical standards within the profession.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Strong B2C brand experience.
• Position requires exceptional oral and written communications skills and knowledge of communications techniques and typical agency procedures in order to coordinate effective campaigns and programs.
• Work requires excellent interpersonal skills to effectively interact with a variety of internal and external audiences, to represent clients to the media and various groups, to propose marketing and communications goals and objectives, to seek out and build relationships with potential clients, to close deals and to lead and direct subordinate staff.
• Position requires problem solving and conceptual skills to recommend approaches and methods; to plan, coordinate, and evaluate communications activities; to prepare reports and analyses; to project trends and developments in the field; and to recommend short-term and long-range goals and strategies based on such.
• Position requires both a team player that encourages collaboration and ideation among team members, as well as, an aggressive and fearless communicator, that is willing to get their hands dirty and do whatever it takes to deliver the highest quality work on behalf of their clients.

A minimum of 5 years experience

For more information on the position, or to apply, visit imre.com/career.

http://imre.com/career/senior-account-executive-los-angeles/

Account Manager – Consumer, IMRE, NY, NY or Baltimore, MD

General Summary:

• Work with agency leaders, including Account Director and Vice President, to provide overall leadership of account teams and establish strategic direction in the planning and implementation of modern public relations programs for assigned consumer clients.
• Principle Responsibilities and Duties:
• Leads the development and implementation of agency’s consumer clients’ overall strategic plans.
• Supervises and provides overall leadership and direction in recommending short-term and long-range goals and objectives for assigned clients. Leads client teams in planning and developing programs and services that are consistent with the client’s strategic plan.
• Manages account teams, budgets and workflows assigned to specific clients. Accountable for the development, management and evaluation of operating budget, and for achieving objectives while operating within budgeted expense targets.
• Serves as the primary client contact and liaison between the agency and assigned client.
• Ensures that the client and agency complies with all copyright laws, confidentiality issues and ethical standards within the profession.
• Assists in seeking/landing new business opportunities for the agency.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Position requires exceptional oral and written communications skills and knowledge of modern consumer media and public relations techniques and procedures in order to coordinate public relations and social media activities and analyze and report results. Bachelor’s degree in mass communications, marketing, public relations, English, journalism or a closely related field is required.
• Work requires knowledge of modern public relations strategies, social/digital landscape, and skills necessary to deal effectively with clients – normally acquired through 7-10 years of experience and a career history that demonstrates increased responsibility including client and staff management and budget oversight. Agency experience preferred but not required. Experience working with global consumer brands preferred.
• Work requires interpersonal skills to effectively interact with a variety of influential internal and external personnel.
• Position requires problem solving and conceptual skills to recommend approaches and methods; to plan, coordinate, and evaluate communications activities; to prepare reports and analyses; to project trends and developments in the field; and to recommend short-term and long-range goals and strategies based on such.
• Candidate must be able to manage complex budgets, flawlessly juggle multiple (often competing) deadlines, thrive in a fast-paced setting with frequent changes in direction/plans, and serve as both lead client strategist and superior project manager.

For more information on the position, or to apply, visit imre.com/career.

http://imre.com/career/account-manager-consumer/

Social Media Program Director, IMRE, NY, NY or Baltimore, MD

General Summary
Under the general supervision of the VP, 5Loom, the Social Marketing Program Director will manage the big picture, day-to-day and overall strategies for both campaigns and full-service enterprise social media management for global Fortune 500 brands.

Principle Responsibilities and Duties
Manage innovation, strategy, team workflow, work product and channel plans for key social media Agency of Record accounts. Daily responsibilities include:

• Leading a team of social media content specialists, social creative and copywriting experts, community managers and analytics experts to help deliver best-in-class social marketing programs for clients.
• Push the envelope around our overall content development, procurement and scheduling in multiple social media channels
• Oversee daily rapid response workflow and consultation
• Oversee and craft strategies for paid social executions
• Review and analyze key analytics/reporting for high-level insights
• Overall client management/relationship development
• Overall strategic/tactical consultation
• Support agency new business with super-charged products, concepts and presentations to prospects.
• Lead RFP pursuits for assigned clients
• Assist with the development of new products and programs utilizing the agency’s unique Sparks model
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills are required
• Team leadership and staff development
• Lead internal expertise campaigns focused on building team expertise in emerging categories of social media
• Lead professional development and performance management for several team members
• Overall responsibilities include:
• Develop and concept strategic social marketing plans
• Provide strategic support to new business and service-development activities
• Manage the workflow, professional development and responsibilities of cross functional Social Marketing team members
• Manage content, innovation, monitoring and reporting for multiple accounts across all business units

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• 7-10 years of social marketing, digital marketing experience
• Experience with consumer Fortune 500 brands (Beauty, fashion, sports) preferred
• Innovative, boundary-pusher with strong desire to test new technologies, models, channels and mediums
• Writing and concepting creative content across social channels
• Attention to detail, project management and complex workflow management
• Creative concepting and strategic planning for the development of social campaigns
• Leading the development of research methodologies to inform strategic planning activities
• Strategic planning and execution of paid social campaigns
• Relationshipping with social influencers
• Applying knowledge of emerging trends and technology to programs
• Storytelling through the use of data and research
• Agency experience or global brand experience preferred

For more information on the position, or to apply, visit imre.com/career.

http://imre.com/career/social-media-program-director/

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