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Client Manager

Interbrand understands what it takes today to build the world's most iconic brands. To support our clients in an ever more complex and fascinating world, we have renewed our commitment to both common global standards and greater empowerment, experimentation and entrepreneurialism. Interbrand is its people. We are a global team of highly diverse thinkers, makers and collaborators. We are proud of our heritage and often regarded as the university of branding. Over the past four decades, we have pioneered iconic work and invented many of the brand building tools that are now commonplace. In collaboration with many of the world's leading brands, we are pioneering the future of brand building. In a world where people's expectations are moving faster than businesses, we give our clients the confidence to make Iconic Moves that create desire and utility, reshape the competitive landscape and drive extraordinary results.

The Interbrand Best Global Brands study / rankings are resources to our clients and the industry, providing proprietary data and insight for our role as client partner and commentator. We have published 18 books on brands and are often the reference point for university curriculum and professional associations. Today, through our own Academy, we aim to be the most impactful learning environment in the marketing world.

Our culture is informed by a set of behaviours we co-created as a business. Our behaviours give us space to experiment, permission to speak out, and a model of leadership that anyone in the business can adopt. Our behaviours are Lead with love, Be Brave, Listen First and Make it happen. We are proud of our behaviours. They make us, us.

About Client Management

It all starts with you. To solve big challenges and grow global brands, we need the best minds. At Interbrand, client managers help solve a variety of our clients' business challenges by truly understanding their businesses and leveraging brand to deliver on objectives. Interbrand's cross-disciplinary teams bring a variety of experience to their table and partner with a single goal in minddeliver industry-leading strategic and creative work to our clients!

Our Client Management team sits at the core of every client relationship with roles and responsibilities ranging from strategic client engagement to flawless client delivery. Our team is comprised of forward thinking, solution-focused client partners, who remain one step ahead of their teams. We understand the businesses we serve and help enable our clients and teams to perform at their best every day. Depending on experience and seniority, our team members transition from project management against a statement of work to leading internal working teams and building strategic brand programs for our clients. However, in our collaborate work environment, all members are client-focused and are expected to foster, retain and grow client relationships.

As a Client Manager your primary role will be to help drive the success of and assist with the management of clients and scopes from start to completionworking with senior-level client directors and cross-disciplinary teams; you will also partner with internal finance and operations team members with the objective of delivering work that is on strategy, on time and on budget. You will act as a crucial member on project teams, providing strategic and process support to both internal and external stakeholders.

The Role

• Define and manage small to mid-size projects, including building timelines, defining budgets, helping to negotiate fees, writing statements of work, and managing client status
• Manage delivery to meet both client expectations and agency profitability
• Work with senior level client directors and finance to create and manage revenue recognition and forecasting for assigned projects
• Track against and regularly communicate hours set for full-time and freelance project resources to help manage project and consultancy profitability
• Serve as a central point of contact for matters related to scope, budget, project milestones, and ensuring the team is delivering work per the client's inputs and feedback
• Learn when to escalate client / project concerns; always provide solution options when identifying problems
• Support a more senior-level CM on larger-scale engagements
• Be client-focused, respond promptly to all client requests building a reputation of impeccable delivery
• Assist in creating agency POV's or other work to be presented to the client
• Support new business team efforts
• Develop a working knowledge of brand strategy and how Interbrand's offerings help drive business growth for our clients
• Maintain a working understanding of your client's business and industry to deliver outstanding service

What You Bring To The Table

Note : This is a hybrid role and requires you to be in the office 3 days per week.

Compensation