Assistant Account Manager
- Location: New York, NY
- Salary: $75,000 – $100,000 based on qualifications and experience
- Date Posted: 8th August 2024
In the words of one of our senior clients recently…
“Market Research has changed more in the past 3 years, than in the previous 40”
About System1
System1 is the leading global Marketing decision making platform. We help brands measure and understand whether their marketing works. Predictive technology is our passion, but our focus is very much human. We understand the power of emotion and capture the nuances of human behaviour to power data-driven decisions. We want to drive change and rewire behaviors, envisioning a world where our pioneering methodologies are embedded in the workflows of every marketing decision-maker. We are also who we are because of our people. So, if you share our enthusiasm, are ambitious, creative, and highly motivated, then we’d love to hear from you! Join the System1 team to continue to help us remove the guesswork for marketeers everywhere, as well as secure our growth, ambition, and success.
To learn more about us, please visit System1 Group | Create with Confidence
Becoming part of the team
With 10 Global Offices and over 150 employees, System1 is a fast-changing business. With exceptional IP, technological advantage and a world-class team we are very well positioned for rapid growth. Central to this is our people. We need to hire the right people, into the right roles, at the right time.
- Are you up for being a part of the commercial team to promote System1, our thought leadership, partnership activity, product launches, and promotional activity?
- Are you excited by working with leading edge IP and products that can make a huge impact on our customers’ businesses?
- Do you relish the role of being the disruptor in a category and rise to the challenge of stretching goals?
About The Role
We are looking for a detail-oriented and ambitious person to join the commercial team as Assistant Account Manager, where you will be part of the NY-based team servicing some of our largest, most important accounts. This role is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to System1 measurement and research, serving as the foundational training for a future career as an Account Manager. The successful candidate will spend their first 12-18 months learning about our methodologies and supporting our largest account through various administrative and research-related tasks.
What will you be doing?
Your principal responsibility will be to provide commercial management within the Americas region to help manage and grow key accounts to support the company’s ambitious growth plans. This will require you to execute on the Go-to-Market strategy for System1’s three product areas of focus: Test Your Ad, Test Your Brand and Test Your Idea.
You will need to be based close to our office in the heart of New York City and report into the VP, Key Accounts. You will be part of a wider team of sales professionals with a focus on delivering the commercial strategy and the achievement of our financial targets.
- Support the day-to-day management of US-based accounts to grow share of wallet through up- and cross-selling.
- Ensure clean and organized execution of work orders and projects, with a high level of efficiency and transparency.
- Focus on client value generation to ensure retention of and growth within key accounts.
- Support the educational efforts on key accounts, including participating in presentations, workshops, and other activities
- Management of clients’ day-to-day needs and coordination with support departments to ensure they deliver excellence to your clients
- Supporting Key Accounts VPs in the execution of commercial operations and administration
You need to be this kind of person:
- You have at least 1-3 years of experience in software, data, market research and/or consumer insights, or sales operations teams.
- You are passionate about advertising, research, building long-term relationships with customers, and generating ROI.
- Detail-oriented, efficient, reliable, taking great pride in overdelivering and doing excellent work.
- You are a highly motivated, commercially focused professional and willing to do what it takes to generate consistent customer value and drive ROI.
- You have a passionate interest in helping brands improve their marketing and advertising efforts through consumer research.
- You possess an entrepreneurial mindset, accepting the realities of operating within a business committed to disrupting the market via an aggressive insurgent strategy, focused on communicating the benefits of delivering high value at high volumes in the area of marketing effectiveness.
- You have a bachelor’s or equivalent.
- You can communicate confidently with various internal stakeholders and client contacts relating to multiple project streams, always ensuring speed and quality of client deliverables.
You need to have the following experience:
- Hustle, a high motor, and eager to unlock productivity and support your team
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Proactive with a problem-solving mindset
- Attention to detail while retaining a sense of the broader picture are essential
- A high degree of professionalism, taking great pride in your work
- Determined and resourceful, able to adapt to a fast-paced environment
- Dynamic, able to work with multiple teams in multiple time zones and locations
Benefits
We offer a competitive salary and bonus scheme, including health insurance, and pension. Our people are important to us, and we understand that each person has a life outside of work and we therefore offer flexible working arrangements (Hybrid) aiming to suit your needs. We also offer several wellbeing resources such as “de-clutter” afternoons for your personal and professional needs.
We encourage learning and offer education reimbursement opportunities.
We have recognition schemes, and regular socials, including summer and winter parties!
We welcome applicants from all diverse communities and encourage our candidates to ask us about reasonable adjustments that we may be able to make to support through our recruitment process and while in post.