Assistant/Account Executive - Military veterans preferred

2025-06-25
Campbell Ewald
Other

/yr

  employee   contract


Birmingham
Michigan
48009
United States

Campbell Ewald

At Campbell Ewald, we believe the things that make us different, make us better. We focus on creating a culture of belonging with a commitment to learning, growth and anti-racism. Were a diverse bunch of thinkers and makerscurious, fun, passionate, and obsessed with helping our clients, ourselves and each other thrive. But dont just take our word for it. We were named one of the Ad Age Best Places to Work for 2021. And while we appreciate the industry nod, whats more important is that were impacting culture. Sound interesting? We hope youll join us!

We are searching for a highly motivated Assistant Account Executive to join our Birmingham office. 

The Assistant Account Executives primary responsibilities include: supporting all advertising campaign initiatives, responsible for assisting with day-to-day client assignments, creative/production management, trafficking, reporting, project status, meeting recaps, and overall support to senior account team members. The Assistant Account Executive, should demonstrate leadership qualities, be well-organized, eager and should work with urgency where appropriate.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Manage the daily operations and communications of the account to ensure satisfied clients and timely deliverables.
  • Support project execution, including briefing, client presentations, internal and client reviews, legal reviews, revisions, proofing, regional translations and production
  • Lead all work orders, audits, and change requests from start to finish, ensuring accuracy and timely completion
  • Set up internal and client meetings including logistics, attendee confirmations, technology access, etc.
  • Recap all client meetings with client ready conference reports and issue within 24 hours of call/meeting
  • Generate estimates, retouching requests, ISRs, BWOs, POs, COTs and all other relevant document required to route and complete projects through appropriate systems

Project Management Responsibilities

  • Work with Project Managers to prepare comprehensive project timelines
  • Communicate shifts in project timelines with client, while proactively raising a flag to account leadership on critical shifts effecting live/production dates
  • Hold client contacts accountable for meeting deadlines within shared project timelines
  • Lead and assist in building presentations for creative briefs and client presentations
  • Oversee all project routing, ensuring internal and client approvals for each stage of the project
  • Manage and maintain asset library, including internal and external library
  • Work with the various departments to ensure each step of the creative process is followed (client/internal reviews, routing, work orders, proofing, legal, etc.)

Accountabilities

  • Show consistent excellence in client service and in building a trusting partnership with internal teams and clients
  • Work with production leads to manage the production process; ensuring on-time delivery of campaigns
  • Proactively troubleshoot and problem solve
  • Demonstrate attention to detail and follow through skills with internal/external teams
  • Complete assignments and/or agreements within deadlines
  • Work with department leads (Account, Creative, Operations, Finance, Art Buying, Talent, Social, Media, Strategy, Production) to keep all team members abreast of project status and timeline shifts

Education and Experience

  • Six-months to one year of Account Management experience
  • A BS/BA degree in marketing, communications or related field
  • Integrated experience in TV, Radio, Online, OOH and Print media with a proven track record of multitasking
  • Proficient at problem solving and brainstorming for solutions
  • Demonstrated intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Keynote applications
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

This is a great opportunity to gain experience in advertising agency life on a path to grow a career in account management. 

We encourage all interested candidates to apply and note that many historically excluded and underrepresented candidates often do not apply unless they feel they meet all requirements of a job completely. Please note that we encourage all to apply as we value a diverse workplace inclusive of those with differing backgrounds, life skills and experiences.

Research show that women and underrepresented groups only apply to jobs only if they feel they meet 100% of the qualifications. Campbell Ewald encourages you to break that statistic and apply. No one ever meets all of the qualifications. We look forward to your application.

Campbell Ewald is making space for your voice, that is why we made the commitment to Dear Black Talent. Check out the website at DearBlackTalent.com.

Benefits
We focus on supporting you in a variety of ways

  • Extensive health benefits for you, your immediate family including your domestic partner. This includes medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, and health savings account are available
  • Flexible paid-time-off policy called (Me)TO, which covers any type of time off needed with no maximum allowance needed to worry about each year. Take what you need, when you need it. (such as holiday, sick, and vacation)
  • Minimum of 12-weeks paid time off for new moms and dads including for births, adoptions, or foster parenting
  • Mental health support services including access to Talkspace, meditation and yoga classes, and access to free professional counseling for you and your immediate family
  • Pet health insurance for your furry family members
  • A variety of employee resource groups (ERGs) are available that can support your need to connect with others who have similar dimensions of diversity and experiences
  • Employees are asked to commit nearly 100 hours per year to Growth Time for a variety of training and development opportunities that encourage you to reach your goals, learn and expand your professional skills and personal growth
  • An environment that empowers you to unleash your superpowers

It is the policy of Campbell Ewald, a division of the Interpublic Group, to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment with regard to race, religion, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.

**We have recently become aware that individuals not associated with Campbell Ewald have fraudulently used our name, our branding, and in some cases, the names of our employees, to solicit applications for fake jobs, to conduct fake job interviews, and/or to make fake job offers. Any request to schedule an interview and any legitimate offer of employment will only come from an authorized representative of Campbell Ewald with an email address ending in first.lastname@c-e.com  We will never require an applicant to provide sensitive personally identifiable information in order to conduct an interview if an applicant is asked to upload an image of their drivers license or passport, a social security number, credit card or banking information, it is a scam.  

If you have provided personal information in connection with a fake job offer or interview and you are concerned, we suggest that you take appropriate action and contact local law enforcement in your area. Please also reach out to us by sending an email to heather.collins@c-e.com





Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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