Drake Cooper

Account Executive

• Lead one of Drake Cooper's largest and most complex client relationships as a senior, day-to-day account leader.
• Translate client business priorities into clear marketing action.
• Guide the client's marketing plans and priorities through the agency.
• Build a direct, trusted relationship with the client as advocate and advisor.
• Understand the client's business, growth priorities, challenges, internal dynamics, and market needs to anticipate future needs.
• Bring forward recommendations, identify risks and opportunities early, and lead conversations with day-to-day contacts and senior decision-makers.
• Guide marketing priorities through the agency and ensure the right people are focused on the right work.
• Oversee significant initiatives based on size, complexity, investment, or opportunity.
• Maintain visibility into work in progress, decisions, approvals, dependencies, and potential issues, escalating matters to agency leadership when needed.
• Manage scopes of work, budgets, forecasts, staffing plans, revenue, profitability, and account billing.
• Collaborate with project management, media, finance, and agency discipline leads on capacity, timing, scope, and financial concerns.
• Lead the account team through clear expectations, delegation, feedback, and accountability.
• Develop team members' strategic judgment, anticipation, confidence, and client leadership skills.
• Recognize and raise team support needs before they affect the work or people.
• Work closely with the Group Account Director and agency discipline leaders.