Sr. Account Manager, Experiential

Senior Account Manager, Experiential

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90 is seeking a Senior Account Manager to join our Client Services team and lead work streams across a portfolio of high-profile clients. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and brings deep experience in experiential marketing, particularly in planning and executing large-scale, high-touch events. Experience with luxury brands, corporate hospitality, and sports and entertainment sponsor ships—especially soccer/FIFA—is highly valued.

As a Senior Account Manager, you will serve as the day-to-day client lead, owning project execution while managing cross-functional teams spanning strategy, production, creative, and digital. You should be a proactive problem solver with strong project management skills, able to forecast challenges and deliver solutions that exceed client expectations—all while keeping programs on time and on budget.

The Sr. Account Manager will oversee Account Managers, Account Executives and/or Account Coordinators across a variety of projects.

• Provide support to Account Director, Client Service on planning and developing work needed to execute projects across the account
• Act as day-to-day client contact and lead client projects with little oversight while overseeing and managing a cross-functional internal team
• Demonstrate current working knowledge of sponsorship activation including the intricacies of planning events
• Build and strengthen client relationships through leadership, relationship building and program development
• Oversee and manage a variety of project deliverables simultaneously
• Manage internal and external staff on execution and delivery of programs
• Oversee all project budget and billing needs
• Develop appropriate communication to client, internal team members or other pertinent individuals on an as needed basis
• Lead and mentor direct reports
• Apply best practices and learnings from previous projects to elevate performance level
• Create accountability practices within company, with the initiative to constantly go above and beyond

You Have These:

• 5-7 years demonstrated experience in client service (agency experience preferred)
• 3-5 years demonstrated team management experience
• Strong organizational skills with ability to manage multiple projects at one time
• Excellent communication (written & verbal) to include interpersonal skills
• Proficiency in project management and proven track record of delivering projects on time and within budget
• Experience managing cross-functional team including strategy, creative, production, etc.
• Experience working with large consumer brands
• Ability to build and manage large project budgets
• Strong relationship building skills with ability to develop and sustain strong working relationships with colleagues, clients and partners
• Proven experience and ability to effectively present marketing campaign concepts and ideas to an audience
• Adept at building relationships and working in a team environment with proven track record of sharing ideas, providing encouragement, building on other's ideas, giving due appreciation and bringing out the best in others
• Proactive, positive, can-do attitude with demonstrated problem solving and solution skills
• Willing and able to work nonstandard work hours, weekends and travel as necessary
• Microsoft Office proficient (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

WME Group is at the center of sports, media, entertainment, and fashion and is a largely relationship-based business. To foster an environment of collaboration, develop our future talent, and build on relationships across leadership, peers, and teams, we work from the office 4 days per week. We see immeasurable value internally and throughout the core of the businesses we support.

Don't meet every single requirement? We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

160/90 is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that encourages applications from qualified, eligible candidates from all backgrounds and life experiences regardless of race, gender identity, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, or belief.