LOCATION: Must be based in Los Angeles.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The Strategic Advisor creates meaningful impact for the agency's corporate clients by leading the work internally and externally through providing strategic advisement for current and potential clients, leading the development of strategy in collaboration with the client team, and managing the account management function to ensure seamless execution of the work. This role has three areas of focus: 1. Client Delivery, 2. Team Development, and 3. Business Development.
Specific responsibilities will include:
Client Delivery
Serve as the primary point of contact and most trusted advisor with corporate clients by providing proactive advisement to them on how to best meet their social impact goals, providing updates on work, identifying and sharing new opportunities for innovation, and reactively responding to client requests, issues, and new opportunities.Direct all communications with clients by leveraging the expertise of the internal client team when most appropriate to make progress on the client's work. Create meaningful opportunities for the internal client team to engage directly with the client.Lead the development and execution of strategies that achieve client goals by leveraging research, findings, and recommendations from the internal client team, while ensuring alignment with PD's approach, project scope, and strategic vision.Ensure continuous and constant alignment and clear communication on goals, strategic priorities, and needs with and between client and internal team.Leverage the full capabilities and expertise of the client team in a proactive and entrepreneurial manner, proactively mining for inputs and expertise, identifying and addressing gaps, and collaboratively problem-solving to drive successful outcomes by making informed decisions that utilize each team member's expertise.Team Development
Regularly report and manage up to the Principal and actively identify needs for engagement from them.Grow and develop account management direct reports and provide mentorship across client team.Lead the client team to most effectively deliver for the client towards results through direct mentorship, identifying productive support, and sharing clear and actionable feedback.Actively participate in the strategic advisement community of practice to drive innovation, develop best practices, collaboratively problem solve, continue to develop own expertise, and mentor others.Business Development
Engage in new business development with prospects identified by Principal by actively participating in pitch meetings to get to know the client and build the foundation for a long-term trusted relationship.Provide strategic inputs to pitches, proposals, and scopes, as needed and requested.Lead the handoff from the Business Development process to kicking off a new client or project with the internal client team.Proactively prepare for and secure continued and expanded contracts with active clients.This position reports to: Senior Strategic Advisor or Principal/Interim-Principal
This position directly manages: Account Manager
QUALIFICATIONS
At least 12 years experience in issue advocacy, campaign management, or demonstrated equivalent at a firm/agency, foundation/association, or in an electoral campaign.Significant experience serving as the primary manager of social impact efforts for a brand/corporation either in-house or through an agency with a proven track record of exceeding expectations to meet vision and goals.Understanding of the trusted advisor core principles.Experience independently developing new and innovative strategies to solve problems and meet goals.An ability to balance creativity and outside-the-box ideas with pragmatic execution.Strong understanding and experience overseeing and managing multi-faceted campaigns that include various levels of change including marketing, digital, messaging, direct service, and convenings to achieve campaign objectives.Strong persuasive writing and presentation abilities.Proven ability to achieve social impact goals in various social issue areas.Skilled people manager with experience managing small, growing teams of all levels, and managing up, down, and sideways.Experience leading corporate leadership and teams through a strategy development process with an understanding of how to leverage internal and external resources to deliver upon those strategies in a collaborative manner and make strategic shifts in real-time.Able to identify new opportunities and solutions to further client impact and expand upon/renew scopes of work.BENEFITS
Our team gives so much to the clients and communities they serve, which is why we invest in their financial, mental, and emotional well-being through our benefits. Propper Daley provides competitive compensation that includes eligibility for performance-based and new business bonuses. We also support the team to take care of themselves with the following benefits:
Compensation package: Starting at $120,000Employer contributions to 401KUnlimited time off policyTwelve Federal holidaysSummer Fridays between Memorial Day and Labor Day (off at 2pm)Two weeks of paid time off between Christmas and New Year's DayPaid parental and maternity leave benefitsABOUT PROPPER DALEY
Based in Los Angeles, Propper Daley helps our clients leverage their unique assets to create positive change in the world. We work with influencers, brands and causes, providing both strategic and creative solutions to move the needle on the issues they care most about. Our approach, rooted in behavioral science, moves beyond foundational awareness raising to those strategies and ideas that shift the attitudes and perceptions that lead to behavior change.
We believe deeply in working as teams. More often than not, social change requires collaborative creativity, disruption and complex problem solving. We serve our clients as thought-partners, strategists, advisers, and tacticians as they move their important work forward.
We expect everyone at Propper Daley to practice the following core values and look for candidates that can and already do live into them:
We lead with kindness. We always orient from a place of kindness, with a focus on how we can help others thrive and do their best.We practice pragmatic optimism. As changemakers, we are always faced with new challenges and obstacles, yet we remain optimistic by coming up with both creative solutions and practical ways to achieve them.We believe diligence is the bridge between optimism and impact. Our best ideas come to life when, individually and collectively, we consistently put our best effort forward. We push past the status quo because we have a responsibility to be as tenacious and results-oriented as possible.We build shared expertise through our individuality. We value and leverage each person's unique and diverse lived and professional experience in order to develop the most inclusive and effective solutions possible.We remain grounded in humility. Social impact and the challenges we work to address are too big to solve on our own. We remain confident and curious enough to ask questions, gain perspectives, and collaborate with others as often as possible.Some of our clients include:
BabylistBest BuyThe Call of Duty EndowmentThe Jed FoundationJohn Legend and #FREEAMERICAKerry WashingtonUS Chamber of Commerce FoundationWaymo#J-18808-Ljbffr