Marketing Account Manager

Are you seeking to further your strategic problem-solving skills and work with an association client in the K-12 education space? Work in a fast-paced, tech-driven, highly-creative agency environment? Then, this position may have your name written all over it!

mdg is a marketing and PR agency with head, heart and a passion for what we do — delivering measurable results for association and event clients in diverse categories like education, healthcare, technology, energy, cupcakes, cheese curls and craft beer (we’ll explain those last three later). With a 40-year track record of success, mdg was named a “Best Place to Work” by Meetings & Conventions magazine. We’re now seeking a savvy account manager to join our collaborative marketing team in our Reston, Virginia, office.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with seasoned account and creative teams as well as specialists to execute results-driven marketing campaigns
• Manage projects from client kick-off through internal review to client delivery
• Utilize agency project management software to open, schedule, track and close projects as well as generate purchase orders
• Perform a variety of duties which might include coordinating ad submissions and barter fulfillments, managing client’s social media communities, maintaining up-to-date website content, coordinating email deployment, conducting qualitative and quantitative research and much more
• Write project briefs and lead project kick-off meetings as well as participate in creative concept development
• Review all internal client proofs to ensure brand and messaging consistency throughout campaign deliverables and evaluate copy and design to ensure they’re strategically on track
• Help facilitate the on-time delivery of agency work by keeping production schedules up-to-date and assisting with job trafficking
• Monitor and report overall campaign performance to help identify if course corrections should be made and ensure client goals are achieved