The Perfect Fit

New Search: Vice President, Director of Digital Strategy

General Description:
This is a world class opportunity.  Literally.  Confidentially.  Our client is ready to hire now.

Our St. Louis client is looking for an experienced digital strategist to fill this newly created position.  This opportunity is to build and lead a best in class online communications team.  Refine, inspire and energize the existing team of around 15 smart, experienced digital communicators to be their absolute best!  You’ll be given the challenge and resources to take the team that’s already better than most, to being the best.
It’s Formula 1.  It’s knowing the challenge and having the resources, but needing the leader with the vision and road map to the goal.  The team is supported by designers, writers, producers, editors and videographers.  You’ll also be the client facing evangelist and educator.  Develop client relationships at the CMO/CCO/CEO/CTO level, inspiring confidence with your understanding of digital and ability to make the complex simple.
We’re looking for a digital strategist, with enthusiasm, passion and joy for the possibilities of digital. If you’re a charismatic leader, articulate and able to deliver compelling presentations while also crafting the team, the collaborative culture and caring, respectful environment, I want to talk to you.

Marketing Trends, Technology, Demographics and Succession Planning

  
We’re already into the second quarter of the New Year and both the micro and macro-trends for the advertising/marketing  industry are looking towards significant growth. Unemployment is dropping,  budgets and spending are increasing and technology is exploding with new opportunities across the industry and the overall economy is solid. So what to do...
 
We are living at a time of a confluence of mega trends: the retirement of the baby boomers; the creation and adoption of new technologies and an emergence of a strong economy. Growth brings new challenges to us all:

1.    How do you attract talent that can provide the level of service your customers have expected?
2.    With the growth of new skills requisite to adopt the new technologies, where do you find the talent and how do you train them?
3.    As your own baby boomers prepare for retirement, how do you put a succession plan in place that manages the expectations for your company, your retirees and your bench strength?
4.    And do you HAVE bench strength?
5.    And who is actually buying stuff today?

A few facts about those Baby Boomers:
1.    They control over $7 Trillion in net wealth

New Search: Senior Vice President, Consumer Communications Strategy

General Description:
The role of this consumer brand strategist and thought leader is to develop valuable, consultative client relationships at the CMO and/or CCO level, while helping grow the existing consumer practice team. Here’s your opportunity to collaborate with and help guide the leaders of some of the largest, most iconic consumer brands on the planet.   You’ll have access to the most robust creative capabilities and you’ll lead very smart colleagues in pursuit of brand superiority and success.  We want a leader who’s been “under the hood”, getting your hands dirty with crafting CPG communications strategies from reputation management and earned, to social and paid media. Excellent career growth opportunities.

Principal Responsibilities:
•    Act as a senior, strategic counselor for clients, developing, presenting and executing plans for integrated communications campaigns that deliver measurable results.
•    Leverage existing expertise to pursue significant opportunities with Fortune 100 CPG brands.
•    Continue to raise the profile of St. Louis’s consumer practice through business development and marketing efforts, and by leveraging the deep expertise that currently exists within the team to pursue the significant opportunities that exist in both the regional and global marketplaces.
•    Provide counsel to C-level clients by understanding and driving the future of consumer integrated marketing, especially the adoption of digital practices.
•    Lead, support, mentor and grow the team you’re leading, sometimes distributed among several offices.

The Recruiting Advantages Of A Marketing Specialty

I consider myself fortunate to be continuing to work in the industry I love.  One of the reasons I became an executive recruiter for marketing and advertising is because I've always enjoyed working with those colleagues (now friends) who share the same passions.

I've just been working on uploading some recently received resumes  into our newly upgraded database and I realize how lucky I am to a reputation that is (apparently) attracting absolutely top level,
A-List talent from all over the country.  Here are several of the kinds of resumes we received on a daily basis.  These are top performers in the most sought after functions . . . these top performers are looking for new opportunities.  Many are willing to re-locate.

Sr. VP, Managing Director & Director of Client Services:  20+ years' experience ranging from iconic global media companies and agencies to midwest regional agencies.  Expertise in planning, media reporting and analytics, operations and an ability to positively influence internal cultures.  This exceptional combination of skills is proud of the ability to consistently deliver beyond expectations.

Sr. VP, Digital Marketing ECD & Strategist:  A Mid-westerner, through and through, this pro has an exceptional history of building and leading highly regarded agencies' digital marketing efforts.  A unique blend of strategy, production, client consultation (education and explanation) and magnetic agency leader, mentor and collaborator.