Senior Account Executive

BGB Group    Senior Account Executive     Our Agency     BGB Group is a healthcare communications agency that offers a wide range of services, including traditional pharmaceutical advertising, promotional medical education, payer marketing, and consulting services. Known for excellence and professionalism, we’re hired as strategic and creative partners by our biopharmaceutical clients to drive category/brand awareness and growth.        Position Overview    The Senior Account Executive is the client-facing project lead responsible for communicating and documenting the project scope and specifications, ensuring client alignment during project development, and reviewing agency work deliverables against client objectives and project specifications. The Senior Account Executive is responsible for managing accurate and timely client communications of project information, status, deadlines, and next steps on a daily basis, as well as managing the submission, review, and final delivery of work and materials. This includes managing clients to their deliverables and deadlines as well as acquiring the needed resources and client stakeholder input to keep projects on track for successful completion. The Senior Account Executive also works with project management to ensure agency work is developed in accordance with client processes and milestones.      Role Requirements:    Account Management    Represents client viewpoint in day-to-day project execution while partnering with Project Management to complete project plan grounded in scope of work, timeline, deliverables, and client/agency process    Proactively manages Account and client deliverables in project work plan in partnership with Project Management    Conducts regular client status meetings to communicate project development and maintain alignment with client objectives   Manages client submissions and ensures agency work remains in compliance with client guidelines   Reviews hot sheet/status grids daily for accuracy and provides nightly comments/updates to Project Manager as needed     Client Partnership    Initially provides information for project briefs and works in partnership with project manager to prepare and conduct internal kick off meetings   Initiates project timeline development with Project Management by providing complete deliverables list and client milestones; approves timeline against client-stated requirements    Conducts project status calls, schedules external meetings, and communicates project status and updates by email   Educates client on aspects and timing of project development, including internal agency process/requirements    Liaises with client stakeholders and extended team members to drive project execution (eg, MLR team, meeting planners, medical/marketing reviewers, partner agencies, KOLs)   Communicates project updates to team in a timely manner, including client shifts in project scope, direction, or timing that may impact agency resource requirements   Participate in client-related travel as required, including local (tri-state) and domestic travel, with potential for international travel    Financial Management    Maintains accurate and up-to-date project financials in all agency systems   Supports Account lead in maintaining up-to-date project financials and tracking project actuals against client scope of work   Partners with Project Management to review project fees, expenses, and reconciliations   Participates in any necessary financial meetings to ensure accurate internal data and to support client financial status communications      Preferred Qualifications    At least 3 years of relevant experience in the account services field within the advertising industry or a similar industry   Comfortable with scientific information   Bachelor’s degree     Client-facing experience    Professional and customer-service oriented    Accurate and proficient note-taking abilities    Organized and detail-oriented with a take-ownership attitude    Excellent interpersonal communication and writing skills    Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook)    Can effectively manage time, multi-task, and handle a high volume of work in a fast-paced environment     All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law. Offices: United States (BGB Group);