President
King & Columbus Marketing Agency
Position Description: King & Columbus is a leading, full service marketing agency, focused on providing content and digital marketing solutions to a wide range of client verticals. The agency serves as the in-house digital agency for parent company, The Post and Courier, and also stands alone providing full agency-of-record to its direct client base. The President of King & Columbus serves as the chief executive for the agency, driving business development efforts and overseeing daily operations for K&C. This position has full oversight of the agency and its staff, but should place a continued focus on new business development and handling pitches for prospects and current clients alike. As a digital-focused agency, the President must demonstrate a strong understanding of digital and content marketing services and be kept up to date on latest trends in the marketplace.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the chief executive of the agency, providing leadership, management and strategic direction to agency staff.
- Act as head of business development for the agency overseeing the full new client process: prospecting potential new clients, conducting discovery meetings / needs assessments, conducting the pitch and new client onboarding.
- Combine client goals, objectives and needs with K&C’s suite of services and market data/trends to produce customized, effective marketing strategies for each client
- Lead team in responding to RFPs and producing SOWs as requested or needed.
- Manage King & Columbus budget, establishing revenue goals, managing expenses, and forecasting revenue and profitability projections.
- Participate in ongoing client calls/meetings, leading meetings for strategic level clients.
- Review client marketing campaigns and provide guidance for optimization and increased client ROI.
- Utilize Hubspot CRM to manage business development pipeline, communication with current clients, and KPIs for all K&C staff positions.
- Identify new opportunities and vendor relationships to increase the agency’s portfolio of solutions and to provide additional value to its clients
- Maintain champion level knowledge in all facets of digital marketing and web development, with a priority placed on continual learning and monitoring latest trends.
- Develop, implement and evaluate internal policies and processes within the agency.
- Develop revenue growth strategies for King & Columbus’ content marketing arm, Content That Works.
- Lead training on sales strategy and agency services to both K&C’s staff as well as The Post and Courier’s statewide media teams.
- Serve as internal champion for agency services within Evening Post Publishing’s revenue leadership team.
- Recruitment, hiring and onboarding of new staff with support of Human Resources
- Participate in The Post and Courier’s revenue leaders and department managers meetings.
- Other duties as assigned by Chief Revenue Officer.
Requirements, minimum education level, and experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in marketing, communications or similar field required. MBA preferred.
- Minimum of six years of agency, marketing or sales experience required with 4+ years digital marketing experience required.
- Previous agency experience required.
- Demonstrated experience in development of marketing campaigns and business-to-business marketing.
- Strategic planning and analysis experience.
This is a hybrid position, but the chosen candidate must reside in South Carolina, preferably in the Charleston, Columbia or Greenville areas.