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Account Director, Frito Lay North America Marketing D3 Creative & Digital Agency

Are you hungry to be a part of the World’s largest portfolio of billion dollar food and beverage brands? Then now is the time to explore the opportunities of PepsiCo: what makes you unique makes us better.

Frito Lay is PepsiCo’s snack manufacturing, sales and distribution operating unit.

They have the world’s largest portfolio of billion dollar foods and are specifically responsible for the growth of some of America’s favorite snack foods, including FRITOS®, LAY’S®, DORITOS®, CHEETOS®, AND TOSTITOS®.

Role Overview

This unique Account Director role will act as the strategic liaison for internal brands and clients, internal creative teams, and partner agencies while also supervising multi-channel engagement execution. The ideal candidate must be a strategic and creative thought leader with the ability to deliver integrated thinking; demonstrate a positive, do-what-it-takes attitude; be a natural connector who develops strong relationships among various groups, and anticipate and solve problems all while being highly organized.

Responsibilities

Overall growth and development of accounts in his group
Maintaining a high level of performance by the account teams and other agency personnel, as needed
Strategic thinker capable of leading the development of a brand’s engagement strategy, annual plans and specific projects with multiple stakeholders including internal and external agency partners and clients
Being sufficiently informed and personally involved, ensuring sound planning, good service and a solid client/agency relationship
Keeping management informed of the status of his group’s accounts, problems, plans and meetings, as well as involving Management personnel at key times
Insures the timely development and execution of plans, campaigns, and projects to assure earnings, growth, and profit goals are achieved
Provides account team leadership, and convey the specific requirements for multi-functional support to the appropriate functional regional management on a timely basis
Plans, develops, and defends budget recommendations, work goals, measurements, and training requirements necessary to provide quality executions and activations for the internal brand teams
Assigns duties, goals, and supervises the account service staff in the local market
Executes duties and assignments as directed in compliance with corporate guidelines and objectives
Maintains open and complete communications of Client issues with functional leaders and corporate management

Qualifications/Requirements

Requirements

Marketing professional with at least 8-12 years in agency account management and/or experience in a closely related field
Minimum of eight (8) years in a supervisory/manager role
Bachelor’s degree required
Strong track record of demonstrating ability to oversee a range of accounts and projects with detail-oriented lens
Strong consumer empathy & customer-centricity. Demonstrated ability to place the consumer at the heart of everything while leading creative teams and managing agency product
Leadership: Orchestrator, Influencer, non-hierarchical: Strong track record of developing and inspiring teams of marketing / creative professionals. Proven collaboration abilities, strategic thinking and leadership skills
Must be open to occasional travel (approx. 10-15% of time)

Relocation Eligible: Not Eligible for Relocation

Job Type: Regular

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Female / Minority / Disability / Protected Veteran / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity

For San Francisco Bay Area: Our Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of San Francisco Police Code Sections 4901 - 4919, commonly referred to as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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Account Director, Frito Lay Marketing D3 Creative & Digital Agency

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