Careers

As a Frankel Project Manager, you’ll be essential to the successful completion of the work we do for our clients. You’ll scope projects and timelines, create estimates, and manage budgets and work-back schedules. We’ll depend on you to facilitate frequent internal communication between the agency’s Creative, Digital, Project Management and Brand Management teams, and assure the on-time delivery of all client campaigns to ensure they remain on-budget, on-time and on-quality.

You’ll also work closely with external vendors/contractors, managing them within scope and budget. We’re looking for someone who prides themself in being an effective problem solver on a day-to-day basis and who is adept at anticipating problems and recognizing opportunities to realize efficiencies and minimize scope creep and budget waste.

Responsibilities:

Project Lifecycle Management

• Coordinates resource management and allocations of resources for projects, ensuring availability to deliver the projects on time
• Facilitates and schedules all projects for assigned clients from estimation through completion
• Leads project kickoff meetings, including presentation of key deliverables, initial spec sheets, timelines & budgets
• Monitors project budgets & schedules daily using the agency’s project management system
• Identifies risk factors for project scope creep and develops plans to address if it occurs or is likely to occur
• Ensures projects stay within agreed upon budgets and informs all parties of any changes to scope/assumptions/issues that arise
• Manages & updates project work-back schedules
• Identifies and proactively resolves any deliverables that might fall behind schedule
• Manages tactical quality of all client partner deliverables
• Ensures the smooth handoff of deliverables within the agency’s teams

Project/Program Administration

• Manages, reviews, and adjusts project transactions on a weekly basis
• Measures project performance on an ongoing basis
• Monitors all projects for quality, achievement of established timelines, and budget
• Schedules, facilitates, and circulates notes/action items for internal check in meetings
• Gathers project assets prior to the start of a project
• Creates and maintains server files/ folders

Vendor Management

• Facilitates estimate development and confirmation of vendor(s) selection
• Establishes final production schedules for work with vendors, and ensures their work is completed on-quality and on-time
• Ensures hand off of print/production ready files to vendor(s)
• Ensures all project outside costs are accurately represented in the agency’s project management system
• Works with Frankel’s Brand Managers to ensure all vendor costs are accurately coded and represented in internal billing systems

Requirements:

• 1+ years of experience in a project management role
• Developed project management skills, including strong attention to detail, the ability to manage multiple demands simultaneously, and in a fast paced environment
• Excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving abilities
• Thorough understanding of studio/graphic arts and creative workflow processes
• Strong working knowledge and professional experience with digital development and production processes and techniques (web, mobile, social, etc.)
• Experience using a project management system a plus! We currently use Kantata.

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Frankel is looking for a marketing and strategy-focused Senior Brand Manager to join our Client Services team! 

As a Senior Brand Manager, you’ll be the trusted primary point of contact for your clients and oversee all activity related to their accounts. You can think of this role as the liaison between the client, creative world, digital world, and the project management world, all while ensuring an exceptional client experience.  

But this isn’t just a relationship-focused role…your ultimate mission is to drive growth for clients’ businesses. We’re looking for talented career marketers who have been in the weeds of marketing campaigns and understand the nuances of what contributes to marketing success. You’ll work in tandem with your clients to zoom out and see the big picture, dial in on the details, and develop the best strategic marketing plans to achieve the best results.

Our Brand Management team is customer-focused, impeccably organized, results-oriented, and prides themselves on having exceptional emotional intelligence. Sound like a group you’d jive with? Let’s talk!

Responsibilities:

• Handling all day-to-day activities and serving as the primary point of contact for the agency’s top-level clients
• Assisting with preparation of client proposals, marketing communications & strategic marketing plans, media & public relations plans, and invoices
• Effectively presenting, selling, and defending agency work/proposals to clients
• Coordinating project timing and budgets with relevant Frankel team members; keeping track of the progress of clients’ projects
• Checking and approving creative/production materials, copy, layouts, and production art; coordinating with clients for approval
• Staying up to date on developments in clients’ brands/products/services/marketing
• Reviewing billing prior to release to clients
• Actively seeking additional projects/new business from current clients
• Working with and supporting other account executives with client-related situations
• Other duties as assigned!

Required Skills:

• Customer-focused mindset with the ability to develop strong and lasting professional relationships with clients
• Highly emotionally intelligent with strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent leadership abilities
• Analytical, with strong decision-making skills
• Strategic and conceptual thinker
• Strong speaking skills
• Exceptional computer skills

Required Qualifications:

• Previous experience in an agency setting required
• 6+ years Account Executive/Brand Manager experience in an agency setting -or- 1+ years Account Executive/Brand Manager experience in an agency setting & 5+ years in of in-house marketing experience with progressive responsibility 
• Bachelor’s (4 year) degree is preferred.

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We’re looking for a Key Account Manager to be responsible for agency/key client relationships, as well as daily management and project-level scheduling of projects derived from those accounts. This is a hands-on position that is instrumental to the success of key client projects and relationships within the agency. 

The Key Account Manager will be the day-to-day agency representative to their assigned client(s), looking after all client needs through frequent direct communication with client representatives at all levels. They will participate in the strategic development and implementation of annual budgets and strategic plans, and then ensure all resulting client deliverables are executed on time and on budget. 

The Key Account Manager must be knowledgeable in both the client’s business and the agency business, and be comfortable and skilled at providing strategic and creative direction based on their knowledge of both areas. When appropriate, this role may delegate less complex client tasks to more junior agency staff and have a role in overseeing the work of the more junior staff member(s) to ensure its proper execution.  

This position requires strong verbal and written communication skills; a capability for analytical thinking; a sense of entrepreneurship; a customer service mindset; strong personal organization; and developed interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities:

• Maintains direct, day-to-day, senior-level client contact and ensures proper agency service to clients
• Devises communications strategy and analyzes client input, taking into consideration background knowledge, research, field feedback, etc. to produce full communications plans
• Leads project kickoff meetings, including presentation of key deliverables, initial spec sheets, timelines and budgets
• Provides agency staff with well-documented input, support data and production materials as required; ensures that strategies are clearly defined, approved by clients, and understood by the creative and digital teams
• Prepares client budgets and estimates; monitors budgets and schedules on a daily basis
• Catches project scope creep and ensures projects stay within agreed upon budgets
• Informs all parties of any changes to scope/assumptions/issues that arise
• Manages and updates project work-back schedules
• Successfully facilitates projects from estimation through launch and maintenance
• Reviews and approves client invoices, and ensures that overall account revenues meet agency goals
• Coordinates project timing and budgets with all relevant agency personnel
• Writes and reviews client status reports and important developments
• Prepares month-end overviews of client’s current activities, and monthly revenue forecasts, plus plans for future development of accounts
• Identifies new business opportunities with assigned clients and plays a supportive role in the development of such
• Represents the agency at client events
• Continuously works to upgrade knowledge and skills through available reading, courses and seminars
• Keeps apprised of all relevant client, industry and market developments
• Reviews and authorizes quotations prior to client approval
• Oversees and coaches junior-level staff, helping them to learn and grow
• All other duties assigned

Position Requirements:

• 2+ years of Agency experience required
• Ability to travel 5-10% of the time for client meetings and/or events
• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Advertising, Communications or equivalent experience
• A strong background in account management and/or project management, including past experience managing client accounts with direct client interaction
• A thorough understanding of the overall advertising and communications environment
• Experience identifying superior business-building opportunities
• Experience editing resource schedules in a project management system a plus!

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If you’re reading this, you’re already critiquing our writing and deciding if our words are good enough for you to join our team. To which we say, we like your style. And we’re looking for the person who’s ready to push our standards of excellence. Someone whose writing is rooted in strategic thought and captures the audience with creative prowess.

Yes, you’re a writer, but that’s just how your ideas come to life. We’re looking for someone who can zoom out to see our clients’ needs, expand beyond the copywriter title and deliver big ideas to solve the challenge at hand. You’ll need to be an excellent collaborator and up for working closely with our team of creatives, brand managers, and project managers to develop highly effective, award-worthy creative work that helps move each client’s business forward.

Frankel serves a diverse group of clients, so you’ll need to be able to immerse yourself in the identity of whatever brand voice you’re working with. You’ll need to have experience writing for a variety of platforms including digital, print, broadcast, direct mail, etc. – whatever will help best move the needle for our clients’ needs. Also, you need to be a juggler. Of projects – we balance several moving projects at once, and none of them can drop.

Responsibilities

• Work with design team and/or Creative Director to develop brand voice, integrated campaigns, creative concepts for interactive/web, print, broadcast, direct mail, out-of-home and other forms of promotion for agency and clients
• Bring new ideas to Creative Director and Accounts team to help meet client needs
• Participate in client meetings, presents work, etc.
• Assist and lead in the development of presentations, both internal and client, as well as presenting work when needed
• Research clients’ products/services/image to ensure ability to write accurate, on-target copy/concepts for assigned projects
• Develop and maintain text style templates for the agency and all clients to assure consistent brand identity across all media
• Work with the Creative Director to ensure quality output in line with all internal and client expectations
• Manage workload with the help of Project Managers to ensure work is done on schedule and meets both internal and client deadlines
• Assure that all copy is checked and proofread by [other participants in process – production manager/administrative assistant/copy editor] at the draft and final stages of each project, allowing a “fresh set of eyes” to examine the work
• Assist in New Business and Account projects; proposals, marketing plans, publicity, etc., as requested
• Provide mentorship to junior writers when needed
• In short, enjoys writing and thinking up big ideas, becomes a positive contributor to our team, and thoroughly reads things to the end

Required Skills

• Strong ability to conceptualize, brainstorm, write, and collaborate with other members of the creative team to create strategically focused campaigns
• Incredibly detail-oriented, deadline-driven, and organized (yes, we meant to say an organized creative)
• Desire and ability to see the bigger picture of any given project and bring more to the table than just the words on the page
• Desire to work on a highly collaborative team in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously while managing time effectively
• Ability to assess and act on data from a wide variety of sources to optimize creative assets
• Effective and persuasive communication skills
• Ability to nuance voice/tone to effectively write for different brands and platforms
• Comfort presenting to clients, with polished presentation skills and the ability to convey a clear vision of how the work addresses clients’ challenges
• A positive outlook and an optimistic attitude, with a genuine desire to do great work and push the envelope to accomplish client goals

Required Experience

• A bachelor’s degree, preferably in an English or writing discipline
• 5+ years of experience copywriting, developing, and creating for a variety of platforms, including digital, print, broadcast, direct mail, etc.
• Previous experience in an agency setting preferred

**Note: To be considered for this position, applicants must submit a writing portfolio for review

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