Managing Director, Creative And Advertising

Summary

Join Penta Group as a Managing Director to lead our Brand Strategy team. As a senior member, you'll oversee multiple client accounts, providing leadership in client service, strategy, and team management. You will play a key role in the firm's growth strategy, including business development and communication with senior leadership. You'll work closely with partners and directors, offering strategic insights. This role offers autonomy to shape the future of our Brand Strategy practice, influencing the firm's growth and delivering results for high-profile clients. It's an opportunity for an entrepreneurial leader to guide creative development and define strategies for continued success.

Requirements

• 15+ years of professional experience in brand strategy, marketing, advertising, or a related creative field, including 10+ years of personnel management experience
• Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and motivate multiple talented, high-achieving teams at once, empowering different types of personalities with a team-first mentality
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize multiple, competing priorities
• Willingness to learn new skills and participate in new projects, leading by example and embracing new challenges
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite to include Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Experience working in a client service environment under a multi-client support model

Responsibilities

• Ensure highest quality of client service by leveraging prior experience and maintaining current knowledge base of clients' business and industries
• Lead teams employing research and testing to inform the development of brands, products, and campaigns
• Oversee and coordinate across multiple teams, streamlining working relationships and creating/managing processes to improve internal communications and culture
• Guide directors in prioritizing team resources, including employee time
• Lead internal skills development sessions for new hires along with day-to-day coaching through client work and internal projects
• Drive proposal writing process and pitch preparation and coordination, helping potential clients understand the value of our Brand Strategy offerings

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous work on public affairs or public awareness campaigns, or on complex campaigns surrounding issues like healthcare, finance, agriculture, or technology
• Previous work experience in a professional services organization
• Experience working on, and managing, remote teams

Benefits

• Excellent health care, vision, and dental coverage provided by United Healthcare with the majority of individual employee premiums and 50% of dependent premiums covered by Penta Group
• Competitive retirement benefits with a 401(k) match of 100% up to 3% of an employee’s deferred salary, and 50% of the next 2% deferred
• Employer paid short term disability, long term disability, and life insurance, with the option to buy additional coverage
• Twelve weeks paid parental leave
• Monthly stipend for cell phone
• Generous paid time off and holiday schedule
• Frequent firm-wide social events and activities
• Excellent environment for learning and growth