DescriptionAbout Us
Were a professional services company at the intersection of marketing and technology partnering with ambitious brands to solve complex challenges accelerate growth and drive performance. Our integrated teams combine strategic insight creative data fluency and technical expertise.
We believe our biggest asset is our combination of different backgrounds cultures and disciplines that come together to form iCrossing community. What we do starts with our people.
We are part of the Hearst Corporation the worlds leading media entertainment and content company which gives us access to the most valuable data and insights talent and audiences.
About this job
The Engagement Manager is a role that will join a team focused on driving digital marketing transformation at the enterpriselevel for an account. This individual will have experience identifying opportunities to grow and improve clients digital capabilities and will be tasked with building trusted longterm relationships with key stakeholders across the clients organization. Candidates with relevant experience in management consulting digital transformation and digital business strategy will be strongly considered. This fulltime role requires 2 days per week in the office.
Responsibilities
- Lead endtoend the direction and daytoday of client digital program including directing engagement team members on the account.
- Ensure resources are allocated and staffed to facilitate delivery including collaboration with Discipline Leads to ensure alignment to delivery plans and commercial targets.
- Maintain an operational model that drives business outcomes and improve engagement leadership practices across the team through methodology and clear repeatable processes. Monitor and enhance operational model over time to meet and exceed client expectations in the context of business goals/outcomes client org structure and program trajectory.
- Provide leadership to develop custom approaches and solutions to clients program challenges. Drive development of appropriate staffing plans to deliver against new initiatives and client annual renewals.
- Build strong and lasting relationships with multiple client contacts. Develop relationships with key client partners to help evangelize iCrossings expertise as a strategic and pragmatic delivery partner with guidance and partnership from executive sponsors.
- Develop a detailed knowledge of iCrossing services capabilities and differentiators.
- Cultivate client relationships through content communication reliability and relatability
- Mentor and nurture talent on the team
- Collaborate develop and strategize account plans to meet growth targets.
- Maintain the client partnership including greater incorporation of insights into plans and vision for the client and deliver goals.
- Track progress toward goals and commitments for the program and report on them to decisionmakers both purely to inform them and to drive progress toward greater advancement
- Own service quality and partner with competency leaders on problem mitigation and risk management communications
Skills & Experience:
- 8 years of related work experience major strategic consulting firm background preferred
- Bachelors Degree; advanced degree or MBA a plus
- Fast accurate and authoritative analysis forecasting and decisionmaking
- Deep expertise in assembling and management digital experience transformation programs
- Comfort with ambiguity and broad requests and able to both clearly validate understanding and answer with concrete projects and industryleading work product
- Strong commercial and business acumen
- Record of lasting mutually beneficial business relationships
- Exemplary verbal and written communication skills including storytelling and presentation
- Leadership ability especially to drive action without direct authority
- Exceptional analytical and quantitative problemsolving skills
- Ability to both individually build and fully delegate to a team the construction of a clear focused presentation for any audience
- Skills to communicate and break down complex ideas effectively
- Strong presentation skills with proficiency in either PowerPoint or KeyNote
- A balanced sense of the immediate and practical against longterm visionary thinking
- Understands the value of service and the ability to evaluate client needs
- Experience managing and maintaining customer relationships
- Ability to collaborate with crossfunctional internal departments to contribute to new business
- Ability to adapt to rapidly changing business needs and priorities. Must thrive in a fastpaced environment with highrates of change.
- Applies ingenuity and determination to find the best possible options to support business needs.
- Takes ownership of outstanding issues is accountable and establishes a high level of credibility with others in the organization
- Respects other peoples opinions and suggestions and works to create an environment of trust.
Required Experience:
Manager