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Houston, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

As a Sr. Global Sales & Strategy Manager, I drive international revenue growth for Indeed’s top global accounts. I work directly with the client's senior executive leadership to define, launch, and drive strategic and operational initiatives. My role includes structuring and executing strategies by developing account plans, gathering and synthesizing relevant data, leading analyses, and formulating final recommendations and predicting outcomes.I collaborate with internal partner channels to meet critical global objectives and work closely with international sales and support teams on account planning. Additionally, I lead cross-functional, global teams to achieve business goals and educate them on utilizing internal resources, tools, understanding international market dynamics, and meeting product requirements.

Austin, Texas, Us

As a National Account Manager, I enhanced online marketing and recruitment efforts by partnering with staffing agencies specializing in Healthcare, Technology, and Manufacturing. I promoted the benefits of Indeed’s job search technology, advocating for our suite of online products to help clients increase productivity, collaboration, and efficiency in hiring at a lower cost.In collaboration with clients, I developed strategic recruitment and content initiatives tailored to effectively reach the right candidates with the right message for their specific roles and brand identities. My efforts ensured that clients could make more efficient and cost-effective hires, optimizing their recruitment processes.

Boston, Ma, Us

As a key member of both Aquent and my client's teams, my responsibilities included building strong relationships with senior level contacts and acting as a trusted advisor. I worked to understand the client's business, audiences, and market landscape, providing valuable insights and knowledge to both the client and agency team. I presented ideas and service offerings to clients, identified and developed new opportunities to grow accounts, and collaborated with clients and teams to shape ideas into briefs and solutions. I was responsible for the investment, profitability, and overall commercial health of accounts, signing off on all scopes and budgets, and contributing to, and occasionally leading pitches for new business opportunities to expand our client portfolio in the US.

Consult with clients to hone and optimize their branding and marketing output based on their exact needs. Work to transform out-of date programs to modernize methods and media which can be tracked and constantly enhanced. Analyze competitive landscape to determine market share and best approach. Suggest budget and overall/online marketing approaches which yielded the best return on investment. Conduct research (primary, secondary and A/B testing) to determine if messaging was in line with what the corporation is trying to portray. Manage and monitor corporate reputation and amend messaging/programs accordingly.

New York, Ny, Us

I oversaw customer-facing teams that provided end-to-end advertising, digital strategy, account planning, marketing, and SAAS solutions for a diverse range of companies from mid-market to global Fortune 500. This included on-boarding, support, adoption, retention, training, ensuring renewals, ongoing growth, advocacy/internal promotion to executive teams, and any other efforts to strengthen our relationships with clients for both online and offline products.My teams managed all aspects of program delivery to ensure timely, error-free, and high-quality implementations, as well as ongoing program development, client growth, and continuous margin improvement. This required constant collaboration with all departments including creative, product, engineering, finance, etc.In addition to hands-on client management, I served as a senior point of escalation for customer issues within my assigned client base and geographic regions. I had the opportunity to establish processes and procedures, set KPI's and MBO benchmarks, and track the team's performance against these goals.

New York, Ny, Us

Identified new partnership opportunities and managed and grew relationships within our vast network of global advertising and client partners in Europe, Asia and Africa (22 countries) while simultaneously completing the duties of Client Success, Professional Services and Business Development for 1/4 of the US business as well as our entities in India and Singapore.

New York, Ny, Us

I was a key member of the management team responsible for driving efficiency for areas including: Production and Programming, Media and Metrics, Customer Success, Creative Operations and Output, Employer Brand Development, Human Resources, Corporate Marketing and Internal/External Communications. The position entailed hands-on management for a staff of nearly 400 persons geographically dispersed within our 15 domestic offices which included 3 call centers exclusively handling the agency’s high-volume, mid-market business which included conversion of traditional newspaper business to online listings via up-sell and add-on solution sell techniques.

New York, Ny, Us

Directly managed the Monster.com healthcare sector sales force as well as set strategic direction of healthcare within the broader company (TMP Worldwide and Monster.com). Responsible for both sales and service company-wide for all things in the healthcare sector, $100M in billings annually.

New York, Ny, Us

Oversaw customer service and account staff, regional operations and $20M+ portfolio (billings) for TMP’s Southeast Region. Developed and sustained high-level, key client relationships to promote business growth and enterprise-level solutions. Ultimately responsible for overall customer retention, satisfaction and strategic direction of top tier customers throughout the region including the agency’s two largest accounts, The US Air Force Reserve and The US Naval Reserve.