The Perfect Fit

New Search for St. Louis Client: SVP, Group Account Director #12024

General Description:
The Account Director is accountable for the management and operation of the entire tourist attraction account portfolio, including strategy, creative execution and results.  We’re looking for marketing leaders who have expertise in advertising, PR, promotion, events and marketing communications through integrated channels.  We need experience and thought leadership in travel destinations and/or amusement parks.  We’re looking for exceptional performers who have an entrepreneurial spirit and want to help contribute to and participate in the growth of a category leading creative agency.  This is a career opportunity.

Primary Responsibilities:
•    Be a creative/branding thought leader and articulate to our clients how to move a product or brand forward in the marketplace.
•    Lead strategy, development and delivery of consumer package solutions.
•    Work closely with Creative to assess client needs and service those needs beyond expectation, within the time frame and budget required.
•    Present creative ideas and solutions to Senior Client representatives, in a clear, thoughtful and compelling manner.  Develop and present new business and strategic initiatives.
•    Stay informed of industry trends and lead innovation within your group
•    Oversight of entire account effort, profitability, hiring, quality of work and ongoing client satisfaction.

Experience:
We’re looking for Acct. Directors with at least 11 years of practical experience in the building or creation of national brands.  An MBA is preferred as is experience with travel and leisure destinations, or perhaps theme parks.  That experience should be either in an agency or client brand environment.  We want pros who understand how to mentor the staff and lead by example, developing the younger talent to increasing responsibility.  We want someone who’s fun to be around, yet assertive, articulate and calm amidst the inevitable chaos.  You should have had  at least five direct reports.  An understanding of the Adobe Suite is essential.  We need a strategic, passionate, ambitious, articulate, entrepreneurial and charismatic leader who will drive results and empower the team.

Compensation:
Our client is offering a comprehensive compensation package including a base salary and a superior benefits package..  Your starting salary will be based on experience, expertise and is designed to intrigue premier candidates. The benefits package includes medical insurance (dental and vision), a 401K,  Disability and Life insurance and more.  An excellent re-location package is being offered.

 About our client:
Since the search is rather confidential, I can’t be as candid as I normally like to be.  Let it suffice to say our client is successful, financially stable and growing, forward thinking, modern, strategically strong and tactically brilliant.  Fun, wonderful colleagues who will become friends and who will support you and your family! 
The client base includes Fortune 500 (and 100) national travel, hospitality and amusement brands, consumer package goods, technology and retail, among others..  EOE

With our apologies and respect, we can only respond to candidates of interest to our client.  Please apply through our website www.Bishop-Partners.com.  Please send a cover email explaining your specific qualifications and interest in this position, as you understand it to Bob@Bishop-Partners dot com

International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum Moving to St. Louis!

The renowned International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum (IPHF) is moving to St. Louis’ artistic Grand Center. The museum is one of the premier homes of historic and vintage photographs, camera equipment and celebrates the lives and work of photography’s pioneers and most influential photographers us.  From Ansel Adams to George Eastman, those who had a hand in moving the photographic medium forward are included.  Read the Case for moving to St. Louis.  Like us on Facebook

The Board of Directors (many of whom live in St. Louis) need volunteer support in many ways, to help organize the move, and related activities.  We need volunteers/interns who are proficient with a range of different skills.

We need a writer, who can write press releases, letters to prospective sponsors and members, and help generate social media content for the IPHF’s various online identities . . . from a blog to Twitter.  You will help contribute mightily to the St. Louis move, as well as help support the total brand refresh that has begun.  If you appreciate fine photography, here’s your chance to immerse yourself with others who share that passion.
   
Qualified candidates for the writer internship should be fluent in the techniques of writing for social media.  You should understand how a blog works and the importance of key word usage.  We expect you to have an existing online presence; premier candidates will have their own blog and/or Twitter account and write every day, if not professionally.

We’re also looking for a researcher, with email blast and database segmentation and targeting experience.  The IPHF is developing a comprehensive list of prospective sponsors, members and other supporters.  There is an aggressive campaign being created to reach out to each of these groups to let them know of the re-emergence of the IPHF. 

Qualified candidates for this position will have experience working with databases, excel spreadsheets, and delivering targeted email communications. 

We expect to work hard and have significant fun as we celebrate the history, accomplishments and affect of photography on our everyday lives.  You’ll be able to work from home a great deal of the time with hours of your own choosing.  Each position will only take a few hours per week.

Both of these internships are volunteer positions at the  moment and not paid.  We'd appreciate your forwarding these positions to any friend or colleague who you think might be interested!

Please apply online by uploading your resume to www.Bishop-Partners.com.  Please send an email to Bob detailing your interest and specific qualifications for these positions.

St. Louis Search: Managing Director, Sr. Brand Strategist #11072

General Description:
This is a new position based on the ongoing growth of our St. Louis client. We’re looking for an experienced branding and marketing communications executive who commands the respect of the client with their attitude, talent, experience and brain. We need someone with agency leadership as well as account and operational management experience. We’re looking for someone who can help lead our clients through the nuances of strategic brand positioning based on research, and very smart thinking resulting in exquisitely executed creative. We’re looking for indefatigable energy, enthusiasm and an entrepreneurial spirit . . . We want you to help nurture the existing staff and help grow that staff and the company.

Primary Responsibilities:
• Act as primary client liaison through the development of client strategy and resulting appropriate project executions, including budget and timeline oversight.
• Be responsible for managing the activity of account teams. This activity includes generating sales, project design (creative), administration, presentations and cost control.
• Monitor and mentor performance, capacity and growth of client service teams and be responsible for each client’s business to manage revenue, profitability and organic growth targets.
• Increase the level of agency services and provide key marketing advice to internal brand managers and top client management.
• Increase the visibility of agency and its services among the key prospective client categories and executives.
• Conduct and/or supervise research and deliver sales presentations; write proposals, brand positioning statements and the occasional brief.
• Develop new business acquisition strategy with agency Principals to expand client base and consistently continue agency growth.
• Participate on Executive Team for planning Company initiatives and growth strategy.
• Travel as necessary in support of client activities (~20%)

Experience:
The ideal candidate must have a superb track record with at least 15 years of senior level client management experience and internal executive level operations experience in an agency and/or client environment. We need specific experience with research based brand positioning, identity creation or refreshing for both B2C and B2B category leading clients, including non-profits. We expect a degree in marketing or closely related field, and we would prefer an MBA. We need a person who has successfully managed teams of employees, if not entire offices or companies. The candidate will have experience working across all forms of media: print, broadcast, promotion, online, direct and environmental design and have experience working closely with creatives.

The ideal candidate will possess keen analytical skills, is a strong decision maker and is results oriented. Strong interpersonal skills along with both written and verbal communication expertise are required. It’s essential you be team-oriented and proactive, as these attributes are intrinsic to the overall culture and success of the agency. We need a strategic account professional with personality and style, and who understands “thinking big”. You’ve always lead by example and have more of a global perspective and awareness of best practice branding and marketing communication tactics.

Compensation:
Compensation will be commensurate with experience and designed to attract premier candidates. There is no “glass ceiling”! The compensation is based on a salary, with performance based bonus and additional incentives possible. That base compensation is coupled with an outstanding benefits package including medical, life and disability insurance and a 401K with a company match. This is an outstanding opportunity for significant financial success, career longevity, and ongoing professional and personal growth. There is no relocation package being provided.

About Our Client:
Our client started with one employee 18 months ago and now has six. They are consistently winning new business, because they are smarter in their strategy and insights, while delivering best in class creative for their clients’ benefit. They are creating a collaborative culture based on smart thinking, the highest quality execution and a company culture that values collaboration and respect for colleagues, clients and family. The diverse client base includes category leaders in entertainment, construction, education, healthcare and non-profits. EOE

New Search: Senior or ACD Level Writer #11065

We're pleased to be starting a new retained search for a Senior or Associate Creative Director level writer for Red Letter Communications, a full service agency 100 minutes south of St. Louis in Cape Girardeau.  Here's the concise job description.  If you're interested in additional detail, there's a much more comprehensive profile of our client here.  We would of course appreciate any referrals to friends and/or colleagues who are qualified for this position (whether they're looking for a job, or not!).

General Description:
This is a new position as a result of continued agency growth.  This new position is an opportunity to take the next step in the advancement of your career while developing headlines and body copy (both long and short) for TV, print, the web, in store, internal and "alternative" marketing channels.  This opportunity includes writing national television spots, web videos, the internal communication of CEOs, or clever taglines to create or refresh a brand.  Here's your opportunity to become part of an exciting full service agency environment and contribute to the success of clients you’ve heard of.

Primary Responsibilities:
•    Utilize strong conceptual skills while maintaining brand and strategy integrity to create copy that measurably succeeds for the client.
•    Supervise assigned projects while simultaneously writing copy for other projects and mentoring your colleagues, all while being the second in command of creative.
•    Work with art directors/video team to write creative rationales prior to client presentations
•    Understand business objectives and strategies of client assignments and review creative materials to ensure messaging is intact and on-target
•    Work directly with clients and the account team to manage multiple simultaneous projects as well as participate in presentations, both internal and external.
•    Develop a thorough understanding of our client's business and that of their competitors.  Learn how to positively influence that business!

Experience:
This is a position where a related college degree and at least seven years of advertising, or integrated marketing communications, will put you in a position to succeed.  We need smart marketers who understand business and who are “more than just creative”.  Your portfolio should indicate writing for a diverse range of marketing vehicles including ads, POS, new media (TV/video experience is essential), direct, etc..  We would expect a thorough understanding of database use in and experience with direct marketing, both mail and online.  We need passion, ambition and enough wherewithal to be able to work with little supervision.  We want you to help mentor and expand your colleagues’ capabilities.

Compensation:
Our client is interested in hiring only the best in the business, and the compensation reflects that goal.  The base salary and bonus potential are augmented with an excellent and comprehensive benefits package including an employee assistance program.  Beyond the literal compensation is working for partners who respect and value their employees and their families.  “They take care of their people” . . . period!  A re-lo package is being provided.

About Our Client:
Our client turns 30 this year!  Now with 50 employees, Red Letter Communications will continue to grow by delivering effective marketing communications to their (both B2B and B2C) clients.  This is a career opportunity to work with colleagues who are committed to their agency, their clients and their family lifestyle.  That commitment results in consistently superb client work, coupled with a quality balance of professional and personal life that it rarely achieved in this business.  Our client understands that Cape Girardeau is not everyone’s dream location.  However, it doesn’t take long to feel the passion, energy and excitement in the Red Letter culture . . . it’s real and omnipresent.  The place is different . . . contentedly excited to be making measurable impact on their clients’ business  where they are, with their friends and colleagues around them. Let’s talk about you joining their team!  EOE

Advertising Interactive Developer #11044

General Description:
Our St. Louis client is looking for a full time Interactive Developer to join their innovative and frequently rewarded in-house team, to support the design and execution of online advertising and marketing for premier national clients.  You’ll work closely with other developers, producers and strategists to help deliver compelling online marketing and advertising, and have fun doing it!  The interactive CDs and producers are the best in the business.

Experience:
Candidates should have a related degree and four to six years of experience, in an agency environment.  We’re looking for strong XML database experience along with ActionScript3.0 and JQuery development skills. That database experience must include web applications founded on database utilization.  We’re looking for a portfolio of work that includes clean design, efficient navigation and architecture and delivers an engaging UX.  We need pros with experience creating dynamic, code driven animation.  We prefer experience with streaming Flash video and .NET2.5+.

The premier candidate will be attentive to details, resourceful, work well under pressure and have strong communication skills. Candidates should be equally effective communicating with technical development team members and non-technical personnel. The ideal candidate will possess a strong work ethic and ability to self-direct, thrive on variety, enjoy and work effectively in a team environment while possessing a hunger for responsibility and learning.

Compensation:
Our client is offering an excellent compensation package with a base salary commensurate with your experience and expertise, the benefits package is (literally) unsurpassed.  There is bonus potential based on performance.   Additionally, there is outstanding medical coverage, a 401K with company match, life insurance and disability. 

About the Client:
The client is an integrated advertising communications agency who is expert in delivering the marketing message directly to the targeted consumer.  They are a modern agency with a roster of national and regional clients and brands you respect.   They have a spectacular reputation and have continued to grow since their founding.  The atmosphere is casual, yet professional with co-workers who love having fun as much as contributing to their clients’ success.  You’ll be supported and be an essential part of a collaborative team.  This is an outstanding career opportunity and our client wants to hire this developer right now!  EOE

Interested candidates should apply through our website.  We'd appreciate your sending a cover letter detailing your interest and specific experience, along with samples of your work directly to Bob.

New St. Louis Search: Sales & Marketing Manager #11042

We're pleased to announce our newest retained search.  Should you have friends and/or colleagues who you respect and believe would be interested in learning more about this opportunity, we would certainly appreciate the referral.

General Description:
This newly created agency position is responsible for developing leads for our    client, creating and executing an online advertising strategy, including paid ad placement and supporting our client’s sales and marketing process.  You’ll be responsible for identifying, qualifying and tracking prospective clients.  Once identified, this manager will contact those prospective clients to create preliminary awareness of and interest in utilizing our client's services.  You’ll work closely with management and sales colleagues to increase our clients’ online presence to deliver more sales prospect leads.  You’ll conduct online research to identify prospects in our client’s key vertical categories.  You’ll develop tactics for relationship advertising.

Primary Responsibilities:
Develop and utilize an online marketing/advertising strategy including online media (including social), LinkedIn and appropriate portals to purchase online advertising for our client (your employer), exposing their brand to more prospects.  Help develop an efficient protocol for following up on prospects while constantly building the online brand.
Identify, qualify and make initial contact with interested prospective national clients utilizing multi-market marketing communications.  Qualify the relationship with the prospective client and help them move to our client (your employer) for their marketing communications needs.
Support our client’s new business account executives to develop and maintain long term client relationships resulting in their loyalty, ongoing satisfaction and sales.

Experience:
We're looking for an enthusiastic, ambitious and entrepreneurial sales and marketing pro who has three to five years of agency or Marcom digital media experience.  You must have experience with paid online media buying, social media tactics and have experience developing a consistent online brand presence.  You must have experience utilizing SEO, and analyzing web data and metrics and refining approach as needed.  Previous experience involving client interaction on the telephone is essential.
We want someone who personable, outgoing and has proven the ability to multi-task while being extremely detail oriented.   This is an opportunity to achieve increasing responsibility and satisfaction in a fast paced, creatively professional environment.

Compensation:
There is a base salary commensurate with your prior earning history and experience.  Additionally, there is a comprehensive benefits package including medical (dental and vision option) and 401K with company match.
 
About our Client:
 Our client is over 20 years old and a consistent leader in their marketing thinking, working with a diverse base of loyal national clients who are leaders in their categories. Their business has consistently grown year over year. There is a veteran staff of professionals to support your efforts, resulting in tactical executions that assure your clients’ ongoing satisfaction. Our client’s leadership team is smart, forward thinking, nimble, entrepreneurial and innovative, always thinking about developing new ways to help their clients communicate their message. The environment is creative and professional and your colleagues are passionate about high end creative, in support of strategic marketing communications and content development.  EOE

Please apply through our website (www.Bishop-Partners.com). 

New St. Louis Search: VP of Strategic Business Development #11033

General Description:
We’re looking for a new business developer who is a strategically founded marketing, branding and communications expert.  We want someone enthusiastic and experienced with successfully developing and maintaining high level strategic client relationships.  Our client provides strategic branding, consulting and marketing communications through events, the internet and alternative video, among other channels. Our client is also expert at delivering internal communications to large corporations, associations and other groups. You will meet with senior level clients, develop an understanding of their business needs along with developing a genuine relationship, resulting in sales based on smart thinking and flawless execution.  Our client can produce the solutions they recommend in-house.  This is a new business development position, with success achieved through a strategic, consultative sales process.

Primary Responsibilities:
•    Understand our client’s unique approach and be able to persuasively deliver dynamic integrated marketing presentations, resulting in loyal relationships and ongoing sales.
•    Research, identify, qualify and present to potential clients. 
•    Develop the relationship to the point of the prospect hiring our client.  Maintain responsibility for overall client satisfaction.
•    Act as primary client liaison through the development of client strategy and resulting appropriate project executions, including budget and timeline oversight.
•    Travel (~20%) as necessary to develop and support new business and account activities.
•    Provide strategic marketing ideas and suggestions to clients to help them achieve sales growth.

Experience:
We’re looking for candidates with a degree and at least 10 years of marketing leadership and aggressive new business creative sales success at the clients’ “C” level.  We want strategic thinkers who know what questions to ask to identify opportunity. We’re looking for candidates with national B2B branding/promotion/marketing experience from either the agency or client side.  Experience in video production and sales is a significant plus.  Premier candidates have succeeded in this role before  and understand sound marketing communications strategy. We expect a proven ability to develop relationships and close sales!  You should have a desire to work very hard to represent a nationally recognized firm and move them to the boardrooms of the country’s most desirable clients. 

Compensation:
Compensation will be commensurate with experience and your ability to deliver results.  The compensation is based on a salary and incentive, coupled with an outstanding benefits package including medical, life and disability insurance and a 401K.   Our client is willing to pay top dollar for premier candidates and there is no glass ceiling to earnings.   This is an outstanding opportunity for significant financial success, career longevity, and ongoing growth both professionally and personally for the ambitious candidate. There is no relocation package being provided.

About Our Client:
Our client is over 20 years old and a consistent leader in their marketing thinking, working with loyal clients who are leaders in their category..  Their business has consistently grown year over year.  There is a veteran staff of professionals to support your sales and resulting tactical efforts and assure your clients’ ongoing satisfaction.  Our client’s leadership team is smart, forward thinking, nimble, entrepreneurial and innovative, always thinking about developing new ways to help their clients communicate their message.  The environment is creative and professional and your colleagues are passionate about high end creative, in support of strategic marketing communications.  EOE

New Search for St. Louis Client: Sr. Account Executive, Direct Marketing #11024

General Description:
As a result of growth, our full service agency client needs a Sr. Account Executive for their direct marketing efforts.  This opportunity will utilize your history of strategic concepting, developing loyal client relationships and efficient production skills for national clients, to deliver innovative work across a variety of media.  This person will work in partnership with the mass media counterpart, and will have cross functional management responsibilities (creative, production, analytics, etc). The position reports directly to the Executive Director of Direct Marketing.

Primary Responsibilities:
•    Client management including developing strategic relationships
•    Lead while collaborating with the creative team for client satisfaction and successful responses.
•    Work with other members of the creative and account service team to ensure strategically sound work, delivered on time and within the budget.
•    Be responsible for strategic data analysis of direct programs.
•    Be conscious of and committed to creating high quality work every time. 
•    Present creative work internally and to clients.

Experience:
We’re looking for an account service pro with around five to seven years of agency experience, with several of those years immersed in direct marketing.  We need someone who understands the capability and value of communicating directly to the consumer and has succeeded in that task for national clients.  We want a confident, motivated and successful person who needs the challenge of that next level. Ideal candidates will have broad and deep experience across multiple communications channels  We need someone who can show how they’ve collaborated with and contributed to their colleagues and their clients’ success. We want candidates with a high level of motivation and a strong belief in your creative ideas, with the confidence to express that belief persuasively. 

Compensation:
Our client is offering an excellent compensation package with a base salary commensurate with your experience and expertise.  There is bonus potential based on performance.   Additionally, there is outstanding  medical coverage, a 401K with company match, life insurance and disability. 

About the Client:
The client is an integrated advertising communications agency who is expert in delivering the marketing message directly to the targeted consumer.  They are an award winning, modern agency with a roster of national and regional clients and brands you respect.   They have a spectacular reputation and have continued to grow since their founding.  The atmosphere is casual, yet professional with co-workers who love having fun as much as contributing to their clients’ success.  You’ll be supported and be an essential part of the team.  This is an outstanding career opportunity and our client wants to hire this Sr. AE right now!   EOE

Please apply through our website, and send an email directly to Bob detailing your interest and qualifications for this position.

St. Louis Client Needs: Director of Interative Marketing #11021

This new position has been created  because of the demand on the existing interactive leadership’s time.  The Director of Interactive will develop key client campaigns from the initial client meetings through implementation and analytic follow-up. This position has equal components of oversight of online strategy development, superb client service and interactive creative/development execution.  This Director will have a role in integrating online communications with other client communication activity and setting strategy for client projects. This role supports account and creative directors in the day-to-day management of accounts in the area of online communications.  This Director is a lead voice on the interactive component of client presentations and new business pitches.

Core responsibilities will include preparing project planning materials; managing communications with internal account, creative and development teams, vendors/partners, and external clients while overseeing the implementation of projects insuring on time and on budget delivery.

Primary Responsibilities:
•    Simultaneously oversee a range of interactive projects as both lead producer and primary client manager.
•    Define and manage team expectations and resources regarding scope of work and responsibilities.
•    Facilitate communication between client, account, creative and development to strategize the approach for client communications projects and new business pitches.
•    Develop project management documentation: wireframes, sitemaps, technology specs, work orders, change orders, etc.
•    Serve as primary point of contact for internal and external clients for online components of marketing plan.
•    Assist in conducting client research and competitive analysis.
•    Assists in development and tracking of budgets as well as monthly billing.
•    Deliver project management responsibilities on select projects, as necessary.

Experience:
We’re looking for candidates with a related degree and a total of around 15 years of integrated marketing communications experience with at least five of those years in recent online marketing communications leadership.  We need an articulate expert who can confidently speak the technical jargon of development in a way both clients and their technical support will understand. A knowledge leader who will patiently share that knowledge and methodology experience with co-workers and clients.  We need someone who’s skilled with both the spoken and written word . . . Someone who’s compulsively organized and able to manage all the elements of a complex project, while being charming, engaging and collaborative . . . A fierce defender of the quality of the final product.   Someone wants to study the analytics of the campaign to determine its success and identify areas for improvement.  We’re looking for a temperament that is calm in the midst of a fast paced, quickly changing environment. 

Compensation:
Our client is offering an excellent compensation package with a base salary commensurate with your experience and expertise and including profit sharing, health and dental plans, company paid insurance (short and long-term disability and life) and vacation/holiday time . . . and yes, even free parking!

About the Client:
The client is an integrated marketing communications agency that is mature, yet young at heart!  The agency has been in existence for over twenty years, and has a spectacular reputation for consistently producing high quality work, and being recognized as a great place to work.  There has been steady, consistent growth of national, regional and local clients over that life span. Your colleagues are extremely collaborative and have a cooperative spirit of mutual support.  There is truly a family atmosphere where everyone looks out for each other.   EOE

Please apply through our website at www.Bishop-Partners.com and send a separate letter detailing your interest, qualifications and any available samples of your work directly to Bob.

New Search: Business Meeting Producer #10112

As you know, I'm a retained recruiter specializing in marketing and advertising.  A good client has asked me to help with a contract position that they have an urgent need for.  The position will start as soon as we can find the right candidate and will run through the end of February, at least.  There is an excellent possibility for the position turning full time at that point.

General Description:
As a result of our client’s growth, this new position is responsible for handling all aspects of the production of sophisticated business meetings for Fortune 500 clients.  There are multiple simultaneous complex projects that will demand your ability to handle a wide range of strategy, production, budget and timeline issues.  This Meeting Producer will have the opportunity to demonstrate responsibility, strategic thinking, and client relationship skills while orchestrating all the components necessary for the meeting’s production.   This is an exciting opportunity, to work in an unusually energetic and collaborative shop where your outstanding performance can lead to opportunities for increased responsibility. 

Primary Responsibilities:
•    Be responsible for all aspects of daily client interface with agency, including both internal and external communications with clients, agency colleagues and vendors.
•    Lead your clients through the conversation necessary to help them identify and understand appropriate strategies and tactics to efficiently meet their meeting goals. 
•    Be project manager for overseeing that all meeting elements; creative, video, speech writers, entertainment, traffic and billing, etc., are completed on time and on budget. 
•    Negotiate and manage all expenditures and insure the profitability of all work.
•    Be accountable for the clients’ complete satisfaction while not caving into the client’s every (strategic, creative, budgeting, timeline or tactical) whim.
•    Pre-production and on-site implementation for meetings/events as appropriate (20%).

Experience:
We need an ambitious, self directed and confident meeting producer with a related degree and at least 10 years’ meeting production experience.  Someone who’s been waiting for that special opportunity to perform their magic with national clients we’ve all heard of.  Only candidates who have experience with producing business meetings will be considered.  We want someone who has proven the ability to multi-task while being extremely detail oriented and passionate about client satisfaction and creative execution.  You must be able to demonstrate the ability to be assertive with all of the personalities involved in the production of meetings, while maintaining a sense of humor and calm demeanor!

Compensation:
There is a base salary commensurate with your experience and with bonus potential.  Additionally, there is an outstanding benefits package including medical (including dental/vision option) and disability insurance.

The Client:
Our client is over 20 years old and a consistent leader in their meeting concepts and sophisticated production, working with a diverse base of loyal national clients who are leaders in their category. Their business has consistently grown year over year.  There is a veteran staff of colleagues to support your efforts, resulting in tactical executions that assure your clients’ ongoing satisfaction.  Our client’s leadership team is smart, forward thinking, nimble, entrepreneurial and innovative, always thinking about developing new ways to help their clients communicate their message.  The environment is stable, creative and professional and your colleagues are passionate about producing consistently spectacular work.  EOE

Please apply through our website.  Please email a cover letter detailing your interest and specific qualifications directly to Bob.

The position will start as soon as we can find the right candidate and will run through the end of February, at least.  There is an excellent possibility for the position turning full time at that point.

New Search: Senior Consumer Brand Strategist #10094

General Description:
This new position is a result of our St. Louis client’s growth and need to more fully service their clients at a smarter and more strategic level.   Our client is a marketing communications firm who accelerates their client’s path to market.  They are not a traditional agency. 
This position will partner with Fortune 100 consumer package goods brands in helping them define and execute brand identity, positioning and supporting marketing communications.  We want someone who can drive the “what should we do” conversation with senior client representatives. 
Our client works extensively in new product development and the re-positioning of established national (and sometimes global, iconic) brands, with emphasis in the food and beverage category.  Our client engages with brands from the concept stage, through every facet of production, with marketing support up to and on store shelves (brand positioning and packaging through promotion).

Primary Responsibilities:
•    Work closely with the ECD and Group Account Director in delivering actionable insight into their clients’ strategic marketing needs.
•    Meet with senior client reps and lead the strategic discovery process resulting in dynamic (and successful) tactical marketing solutions.
•    Write the resulting brief and collaborate with the creative and account staff in executing the marketing solution.
•    Travel as necessary for client responsibilities and new business development meetings.

Experience:
We’re looking for a special person who could be a writer, a planner, brand manager, CMO, or a hybrid of those titles.   We’d like that person to have an elite education (MBA preferred) and at least 15 years’ experience of strategic brand experience with at least 10 years of that experience on the client side.  We want someone who’s very smart, but insatiably driven to continuously learn through additional experiences and reading.
The ideal candidate will have significant prior experience with brand identity and positioning, new product development, packaging, promotion at retail and/or shopper marketing experience for national consumer package goods brands.  Additionally they should be fluent with the most current marketing channels including traditional and new media applications.

We’d also like that classically trained candidate to be unusual and/or unpredictable . . .  someone with an atypical approach and solution to an issue.  This person has a non-traditional thought process and delivers powerful, non-traditional and innovative (perhaps constructively disruptive) insight.  We’re looking for brilliance that leads to success in an “off center” way.  As you’ve guessed, this is a very unusual marketer.

Compensation:
Our client is offering a comprehensive compensation package including a base salary, the potential for a bonus based on performance and outstanding benefits..  Your starting salary will be based on experience, expertise and is designed to intrigue premier candidates. The benefits package includes medical insurance (dental and vision), a 401K, Disability and Life insurance.  A relocation package is being offered.

 About our client:
Our client is mature, yet young and innovative.  . . a  comprehensive marketing resource.  Our client is proud of the loyalty of their own client base, which is leading to frequent, substantial new business opportunities and successes.  The environment is urban, modern, collegial and fun.  Our client is interested in loyal, productive and happy employees and works hard to retain them.  EOE

Interested candidates should upload their introduction, resume and portfolio info to our website: Bishop-Partners.com (Retained Recruiter).  We’ll respond promptly.  Thank you!

New St. Louis Search: Senior Online Producer #10092

The Sr. Producer will manage key client projects from the initial client meetings brief through to implementation. This position has equal components of superb client service and detailed project management.  The Sr. Producer will have a role in integrating online communications with other client communication activity and setting strategy for client projects. This role supports account directors and account managers in the day-to-day management of accounts in the area of online communications.

Core responsibilities will include preparing project planning materials; managing communications with the interactive project team, vendors/partners, internal account teams, and external clients; and overseeing the implementation of projects to plan, timeline, and budget.

Primary Responsibilities:
•    Defines and manages team expectations regarding scope of work and responsibilities.
•    Facilitate communication among team members – internally and with the client – via regular team meetings, weekly status reports, and project website.
•    Identify, acquire and manage all assets necessary for project.
•    Identifies and assesses impact of changes in scope; ensures that revised estimates are developed and improved, and appropriate project documentation is updated.
•    Serve as primary point of contact for internal and external clients for online components of communications plan.
•    Assist in conducting client research and competitive analysis.
•    Assists in development and tracking of budgets as well as monthly billing.

Experience:
We’re looking for candidates with a related degree and a total of around 15 years of advertising experience with at least five to seven of those years in recent online advertising.  We need an articulate expert . . . A knowledge leader who will patiently share that knowledge and methodology experience with co-workers and clients.  We’re looking for a temperament that is calm in the midst of a fast paced, quickly changing environment.

Compensation:
Our client is offering an excellent compensation package with a base salary commensurate with your experience and expertise.  There is bonus potential based on performance.   Additionally, there is outstanding  medical coverage, a 401K with company match, life insurance and disability.  A re-location package is being offered.

About the Client:
The client is an integrated advertising communications agency who is expert in delivering the marketing message directly to the targeted consumer.  They are a modern agency with a roster of national and regional clients and brands you respect.   They have a spectacular reputation and have continued to grow since their founding.  The atmosphere is casual, yet professional with co-workers who love having fun as much as contributing to their clients’ success.  You’ll be supported and be an essential part of a collaborative team.  This is an outstanding career opportunity and our client wants to hire this Senior Producer right now!   EOE

Please apply directly through our website www.Bishop-Partners.com and send a separate email of introduction to Bob detailing your interest and qualifications.

New St. Louis Search: VP, New Business Development, Marketing #10077

General Description:
We need a seasoned account person to lead Fortune 500 brand clients.  The position entails strategic development and oversight, supervision of  tactical execution and significant client contact in support of those efforts.  Be a new business "hunter": Identify new client opportunities, develop relationships and "close" new business opportunities.  Represent the clients’ needs and goals to the agency and facilitate execution of smart, strategically driven tactical solutions, delivering spectacular results.  The position is a career opportunity to work with world-class brands and all the responsibility, and resulting professional and personal satisfaction that goes with it.  The tactical execution for our client involves a focus on new media marketing, with  print, collateral, events, and direct marketing.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Be “the face of the agency” and represent it with an enthusiastic, out-going personality, detail orientation and ability to consistently build and grow loyal client relationships.
• Identify new business opportunities and develop relationships that lead to new business for our client.
• Lead clients’ planning and discovery meetings.  Be responsible for proposal and final creative brief writing for presentation to and review by the client.  
• Ensure that proper and consistent communication is maintained within the project team and the client, maximizing client results and agency profitability.
• Responsibilities include proper documentation of client need, budget negotiation and acceptance, internal/external resource planning, deadline management, and resolving the “issues of the day”.
• Ensure that deliverables coincide with project scope, plan, budget, strategy and goals.
• Maintain and grow project revenue from existing accounts by identifying new business opportunities and assisting in new business development initiatives.
• Develop an annual "outbound" marketing plan for our client and manage the tactical execution of that plan.

Experience:
A Degree and at least seven years of current advertising or marketing communications experience is required,  preferably with a creatively-driven agency (an appreciation for great creative and a proven ability to sell it is essential) working with national consumer brands.   You must have expertise in online marketing and experience with social marketing.  We want experience dealing with client principals, negotiating agency fees, strategic development and tactical execution across a wide spectrum of outlets as mentioned above.  We need someone who’s ambitious, articulate and entrepreneurial and who commands the clients’ respect, with the result of developing long term, loyal client relationships. We need a team player and leader who also knows how to have fun while handling significant responsibility.  This is a new business development position.

Compensation:
The compensation will be custom designed for the premier candidate and will include a salary with an opportunity for a performance bonus.  The package is augmented with medical insurance 401K, flexible vacation/PTO policy and tuition assistance.  Employees are supported and treated with loyalty and respect.  The office is an exciting and fun place to work. 

About Our Client:
Our client is one of the fastest growing “boutique” (read unique personality) agencies in the region.  The Agency has an attitude and personality that inspires their workers to demand clever winning strategies, executed with elegance and enthusiasm at the highest standards of quality.  This is not a typical place to work.  There is passion about client success in the air.  The Agency’s loyalty to their workers is impressive.  There is spirit of cooperation among co-workers, that you don’t find in every agency!  Our client needs this Director of Client Services now!  EOE 

Interested parties should apply by uploading a resume to our website, and sending an email of introduction directly to  Bob.  If you have friends and/or colleagues who you respect and believe to be qualified for this position, we'd appreciate your referral.

New Search: Web Designer/Developer #10033

We're just starting a new search for this online designer.  Our client is interested in hiring this person as soon as possible, so if you know of a friend or colleague who's looking for a new opportunity and step forward in their career, please feel free (and encouraged) to forward this description to them.

Web Designer #10033
Location:  St. Louis

General Description:
Because of growth resulting from new business, award-winning St. Louis branding/marketing/communications agency client is looking for a full-time web designer to add to our online team.  We create interactive, print and video communications for category leading clients around the world.  This is a fast-paced agency environment that requires an ability to quickly change gears and produce great work in a variety of styles for a variety of audiences. 

Primary Responsibilities:
•    Work collaboratively with creative and project mangers during projects.
•    Be self directed in your ability to complete projects on time and within the timeframe allocated.
•    Contribute to each project by proactively making suggestions about how to make it better.
•    Work cooperatively with your peers and colleagues to help solve problems and upgrade your base of       knowledge.
•    Be self-directed, organized with exacting attention to detail, and passionate about doing the best           job you possibly can on every project.
•    Stay abreast of (in front of) industry trends, processes and methodology to contribute at as high a           level as possible

Experience:
We’re looking for a web designer with 2-3 years advertising agency or design firm experience—but even more important is a portfolio that shows us cutting edge work in a variety of media and styles.  Additional skills desired include:  Enhanced web programming skills (ASP, PHP, jQuery, ActionScript, etc.), an understanding of relational databases and SQL, CMS (Drupal, Wordpress, ModX, etc.), HTML email, print design, and the flexibility to work within several software and server platforms. A proficiency in streaming media and motion graphic applications, such as After Effects, would be even better!

About Our Client:
Our client is over 20 years old and a consistent leader in their marketing thinking, working with loyal national clients who are leaders in their category.  Their business has consistently grown year over year.  Our client’s leadership team is smart, forward thinking, nimble, entrepreneurial and innovative, always thinking about developing new ways to help their clients communicate their message.  The environment is creative and professional and your colleagues are passionate about high end creative, in support of strategic marketing communications,  EOE.

Please apply through our website www.Bishop-Partners.com.  Please send a separate email to Bob@Bishop-Partners.com detailing your interest in and qualifications for this position including a link to your online portfolio.

New Search Starts . . . Strategic Creative Director, Packaging #9802

I've just started working on a new search.  If you know of any colleagues who are qualified and you have respect for, I'd certainly appreciate a referral, in strict confidence of course!

General Description:
This new position is a result of ongoing growth and planning for significant new business expansion.  This CD must be strategically founded and capable of delivering concepts and ideas visually executed across the spectrum of “go to market” channels, specifically including sales promotion, packaging, collateral, POS and pre-press.  We need a leader experienced in concept development, senior level client presentations and the nurturing and growth of younger creatives.  The CD will have the responsibility of leading a rapidly growing staff to creative brilliance resulting in consistent, unequalled client satisfaction, loyalty and sales. 

Primary Responsibilities:
•    Be a creative/branding thought leader and articulate to our clients how to move a product or brand forward in the marketplace.
•    Lead strategy, development and delivery of consumer package solutions.
•    Work closely with Account Directors to assess client needs and service those needs beyond expectation, within the time frame and budget required.
•    Direct the delivery of creative visual solutions which can be “universally” executed across all marketing/production channels and opportunities.
•    Present creative ideas and solutions to Senior Client representatives, in a clear, thoughtful and compelling manner.  Develop and present new business and strategic initiatives.
•    Stay informed of industry trends and lead innovation within your group
•    Oversight of entire creative effort, profitability, hiring, quality of work and ongoing client satisfaction.

Experience:
We’re looking for CDs with a creative degree and a passion for design excellence.   New product ideation and development experience is desired.  We think about 10-15 years experience is appropriate, and we want candidates who have experience leading a creative department.  It is essential that you be “client focused”.  You must have significant CPG package design experience for national brands.  You must appreciate and identify younger talent and understand how to move them forward in their careers.  You must understand strategic marketing and have package design expertise.  You must be able to demonstrate experience with high level client interaction, partnering with those clients and being a marketing thought leader for their business.

Compensation:
Our client is offering a comprehensive compensation package including a base salary and outstanding benefits..  Your starting salary will be based on experience, expertise and is designed to intrigue premier candidates. The benefits package includes medical insurance (dental and vision), a 401K,  Disability and Life insurance.  An excellent re-location package is being offered.

 About our client:
Our client is mature, yet young and innovative.  . . a marketing resource that helps clients “Go to Market”, across appropriate marketing channels.  Our client is proud of the loyalty of their own client base, which is leading to frequent, substantial new business opportunities.  The environment is urban, modern, collegial and fun.  Our client is interested in loyal, productive and happy employees and works to retain them.
The client base includes Fortune 500 (and 100) consumer package goods brands.  EOE

With respect and our apologies in advance, we can only respond to candidates of interest to our client.  Please visit www.Bishop-Partners.com and upload your resume.  Please send electronic samples directly to Bob@Bishop-Partners.com.