Account Coordinator

Our Opportunity

GPJ is hiring an Account Coordinator to join our growing team.

This role is hybrid, requiring you to report on-site to our Los Angeles office location a minimum of 2 days per week.

Your Role

In your role, you provide essential support to your Account Team, covering a wide range of tasks. This includes administrative duties, scheduling, keeping everyone in the loop with project status updates, and making sure documents are well-edited and properly formatted.

You work closely with the Account Lead, assisting with project management activities at the account level. This involves helping to plan and coordinate various aspects of your projects to ensure they run smoothly.

One of your key responsibilities is to document the outcomes and actions from your internal and client meetings. This helps you keep track of decisions made and tasks assigned, ensuring that nothing falls through the cracks.

To better serve your clients, you've been working on building a deeper understanding of their business and industry. This involves conducting project-related research and compiling findings that can inform your strategies and approaches.

Additionally, you've learned how to manage simple budgets and maintain fiscal responsibility in your day-to-day work. This ensures that you stay on track financially while delivering high-quality services to your clients.

Your Skills

• Understands basic math and simple budget concepts
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office software including PPT, Word, Excel, Outlook. Previous experience with ERP, Project Management software, or similar tool is preferred.

Your Competencies

Account Development & Growth -Through in-depth business, industry and client knowledge, drive forward thinking approaches and concepts aligned to and anticipating client’s needs and objectives enabling agency differentiation, identification of new areas for growth and client satisfaction.

Client Orientation -You demonstrate concern for satisfying external and/or internal clients aka client obsession. You focus always on the end clients, ensuring that response times and service are at the forefront of customer interactions, via technology or human touch points. You provide superior client service by prioritizing personal interactions (verbal or face-to-face) with our clients on a regular cadence. You listen as well as advise our clients on given situations to ensure engagement success.

Relationship Builder - Develop, maintain and strengthen partnerships with others inside and outside the client organization. Identify new stakeholders, manage client expectations, define new business opportunities and deliver against clients’ needs while skillfully balancing the needs of the client and those of the agency. Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport,: builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.

Your Experience

0-2 years of experience; industry related preferred

4 Year College Degree desired; preferred in Marketing/Advertising/Event Management/Business Administration, Hospitality, Communications, or other related field

Your Impact

You will work closely with Integrated Production, Creative, Strategy, Account Operations, Fabrication

Salary Range: $50k - $55k

Salary is dependent on a variety of factors including (but not limited to) experience, skills, and location.

Who We Are

GPJ is the world leader in experiential marketing. Our 29 global offices are filled with fearless people dreaming up ideas that are transforming industries and bringing the most respected brands to life in powerfully, exciting ways. We are a part of the Project Worldwide family. An independent, employee-owned global network of complementary, wholly owned agencies.

You read that “employee-owned” part, right? You heard us correctly. You work hard, she works hard, we all work hard… we all succeed and reap the rewards. We have an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – providing our employees with an ownership interest. We thought you would want to know that. In fact, there is a lot more you would want to know about us, like our FTO policy (no more “accruing” time off), our employer matching 401(k) plan (no vesting period), our “no employee contribution” healthcare option. But we are getting ahead of ourselves here, let’s talk about this exciting opportunity first and we can fill you in on our perks & benefits later.

GPJ is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected class. In addition to federal law requirements, GPJ complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. GPJ expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on any protected class.