Account Supervisor

About the role

VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML's specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world's largest and most awarded health agencies. VML's global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney. About WPP WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company - powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com . Who we are looking for: VML is seeking an Account Supervisor servicing one of our largest North American clients. You will sit in our Kansas City office in service of the performance marketing initiatives created for a global agricultural machinery brand. You are accountable for presentations and well-managed projects, timely production, and budget adherence. This role owns the responsibility of the growth and development of the client's go-to-market retail business across all disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Mentor | Manage the Account Manager and Assistant Account Executive, providing mentorship and development opportunities. Identify employee goals and conduct performance reviews.
• Process | Ensure agency work follows digital marketing best practices. Shepherd agency deliverables and client presentations through regulatory and legal review process. You are accountable for on-time, on-budget completion of all projects and the reporting of budget status to clients.

Requirements

• A builder | Entrepreneurial attitude couple with a strong business acumen. Ability and appetite to bring people together. Innate ability to marshal people and create gravity around ideas.
• Open and collaborative | Our team is close-knit and supportive and we're working with a lot of unknowns - you must champion of team environments that are comfortable and encouraging.
• Optimistic and resilient | Dig in and figure out how to work around problems. Yes and why not posture. Takes care of self and team. Balance needed to maintain stamina and positivity.
• Ego-less | We all wear the hats that need wearing, it's a mentality that makes the team successful.
• 4-5+ years account management experience with a minimum of 2 years as the client lead of a large brand.
• Experience working in agriculture or other regulated industry preferred.
• Strong experience in digital and performance marketing-media, paid search, social, display, programmatic, SEO, content, UX, etc.
• Ability to lead and communicate effectively with cross functional teams.
• Self-confident, flexible yet takes and defends positions.
• Ability to present ideas and strategies to senior level clients.

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