As an Account Manager, you will help to manage our premium clients and campaigns through best in class customer service. This is an opportunity to craft strategic media plans and utilize your project management skills to bring the campaigns to life. *Local candidates are preferred.

ResponsibilitiesPre-sale:

• Support the Sales and Sales RVPs to identify the client's needs, and help them achieve their KPIs
• Support and manage the client acquisition process across rate table and display businesses; the upsell of existing business through outstanding account management
• Work with internal clients across multiple departments – Sales, Marketing, Editorial, Ad Operations and Programmatic – and external clients and advertisers 
• Create media plans to maximize revenue opportunities for major agencies and advertisers
• Establish packages/products based on inventory and market trends to guide Sales on greatest return deals (full RFP process: create, maintain and improve RFP repository, tracking system and monitor lifecycle)
• Provide internal and external customer service (client and team inquires, requests)
• Identify Bankrate's new opportunities based on market trends and client feedback – social, email, new ad units/sizes, mobile, video, etc.

Post-sale:

• Point of contact for all client engagements, sales and client reporting, optimizations, and overall campaign
• Analyze campaign performance and create strategic optimizations
• Manage clients and accounts
• 3rd party submissions, tracking and reporting
• Manage the receipt of creative input and materials from clients, owner of campaign launch and maintenance
• Maintain client approvals / documentations in SalesForce and handle revised Insertion Orders
• Work with the Finance team on monthly billing reconciliation
• Create campaign wrap up decks, performance reviews and account analyses