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Serve as the primary client contact while leading strategic planning, creative development, and execution of experiential marketing campaigns. Manage client relationships, mentor account executives, coordinate internal teams, oversee budgets and timelines, present recommendations, and support account profitability and revenue growth. The role requires agency marketing experience, event or experiential marketing knowledge, strong leadership and communication skills, and up to 20% travel.

Manage client activation projects from planning through onsite execution, including schedules, budgets, staffing, training, vendor coordination, reporting, and performance analysis. Lead Brand Ambassador hiring, deployment, coaching, and performance management. Collaborate with creative, production, and operations teams to deliver campaigns, maintain project documentation, and support client communications. Travel and weekend work may be required.

Leads regional retail sales operations by managing District and Territory Managers, developing remote teams, strengthening retailer and carrier partnerships, driving sales performance, analyzing market data, managing budgets, conducting field visits, and overseeing hiring, training, payroll, and performance reviews.

Leads an inside sales and Brand Ambassador team, overseeing customer satisfaction processes, campaign execution, staffing, scheduling, timesheets, logistics, consumer interactions, KPI tracking, reporting, and client communication. The role requires frequent regional travel to activation sites, hands-on team support, problem solving, and use of CRM, spreadsheet, and Google Workspace tools.

Develops and maintains retail planograms and space-management solutions for assigned customers and categories. Analyzes financial and syndicated data, provides space-related insights, builds performance reporting, and ensures visual standards and deliverable accuracy. The role coordinates meetings with clients and internal teams, maintains planogram data, supports quality control, and uses space-management software and business intelligence tools to improve product placement and brand performance.

Drives net-new client acquisition by prospecting, networking, researching markets, building executive relationships, developing consultative solutions, managing sales pipelines, and closing contracts. Expands BAS into emerging brands and new channels, represents the organization at industry events, develops business cases and pricing strategies, and partners with leadership and operational teams to deliver growth objectives.

Leads Acosta’s global process excellence and GBS transformation, overseeing process assessments, redesign, standardization, migration readiness, productivity improvements, Lean events, automation readiness, and GPO governance. Designs future-state processes across Finance, HR, Procurement, IT, and Europe SGA, while developing a global analyst team and coaching stakeholders on continuous improvement, change management, and problem-solving.

Develops strategic copy and campaign concepts across retail, digital, social, experiential, video, in-store, and traditional media. Collaborates with art directors, designers, strategists, account teams, and clients to create brand-building and retailer-ready work. Responsibilities include researching consumers and competitors, presenting ideas, incorporating feedback, supporting pitches and new business, and ensuring copy meets brand, retailer, and legal requirements. Occasional travel is required for client meetings, photoshoots, and productions.

Leads customer and principal business growth by achieving sales, volume, share, merchandising, pricing, and distribution goals. Develops customer business plans, manages trade-marketing funds, builds customer and manufacturer relationships, coordinates retail initiatives, presents sales strategies, and oversees market visits. Uses category management, competitive pricing analysis, Excel, PowerPoint, IRI Analyzer, and RW3 to improve results. Supports organizational development, mentors business and account managers, and helps expand principal and company revenue.

Leads business insights for Walmart and Sam’s Club clients by developing strategic, data-driven sales presentations and reporting. Uses syndicated, loyalty, consumer, and internal data to influence business strategies and merchant action. Builds client relationships, manages multiple projects, standardizes analytical best practices, and mentors one analyst. Tracks retail and consumer trends while communicating insights that support sales growth.