accountexecutive

Account Executive to handle clients that have annual revenues between $100 million and $15 billion.

Since you are on our website you can review various information about our company. Below is a brief summary:

• We have a 49 year history of servicing some of the world’s most beloved brands. Some of our past and present clients include Wal-Mart, Colgate, Dial, Butterball, Scotts, Miracle-Gro, Ajax, Black & Decker, Bayer Corporation, Del Monte, GE, Breyers, Hasbro, Kraft Foods, P&G, Ralston Purina, Sony, Campbell’s Soup, Sara Lee, Quikrete, Clorox, Home Depot, Kroger, and Tyson Foods just to name a few.
• During our 49 year history, consumers have spent over $100 Billion on brands that we have helped our clients manage and develop. Most households in America today have at least one brand or package that Fisher Design was involved with on strategy, design, and /or implementation
• As a testimony to outstanding service, our average client has been with us for at least ten years or longer.

Here are a few details regarding this position:

• Intelligence, work ethic, and business savvy are more important than experience or education. We work hard and need someone that likes to be part of a great team. Clearly you need to not only be smart, but enjoy working with people and making sure that team members keep deadlines and complete all paperwork in a timely manner.
• If you like the concept of leading a team and building business with well known brand package clients, this would be an ideal position for you.
• Effective teamwork is the key to our success with our clients. Clearly, you need to not only be smart, but also enjoy working with people while making sure that team members keep deadlines and complete all paperwork in a timely manner.
• We need a talented person with a great attitude as well as someone that can interact with some of our most important clients on a daily basis, while at the same time working side by side with fellow employees to get the job done.
• In essence, you will manage all client contact and business for these clients. This will involve ensuring that project goals and objectives are clear and accurate, that both internal teams and clients are informed, that budgets are developed and monitored, that deadlines are met, that business is not only maintained, but developed as well.
• If you know Maconomy, that is helpful but if you do not we will train you. We use Maconomy to establish budgets, and track utilization of time that is charged on the projects.
• Your computer skills will involve using a Macintosh computer and software such as Microsoft Acrobat, Excel, Word, and Entourage.
• Good math skills will be helpful in scheduling and creating budgets. In addition, having good organizational skills will be helpful in being able to handle multiple projects.
• We are passionate about what we do and we’re looking for like-minded people that want to be part of a great team.

Here are some other areas where your skill sets will help you compete against the other candidates for this position:

• Your level of understanding Design and Branding principles.
• Your ability to develop proposals and budgets.
• Your ability to build and maintain client relationships.
• Your level of knowledge on basic print processes such as gravure, flexography, and offset lithography.

If you are interested please email us at hr@fisherdesign.com the answers to the following questions in a word document and attach your resume:

1. What is your greatest strength?
2. What is your greatest weakness?
3. What do you feel is your greatest professional achievement (whether or not someone else has acknowledged it)?
4. What do you feel is your greatest professional failure (whether or not someone else has acknowledged it)?
5. If you had a magic wand what would you do for a living assuming that the compensation was what you wanted?
6. What did you like most about your favorite manager?
7. What did you like least about your least favorite manager?
8. What questions would you like to ask about this position?
9. What questions would you like to ask about this company?
10. What questions would you like to ask about your future supervisor?

We believe that everything is relative, so depending on your strengths in some areas if you lack the skills in another area, but can learn them fairly quickly, we will consider that in the interview process.
While we might be flexible on some aspects of the work, we want a talent that can enhance the Client Services Director’s efforts to maintain the long and successful relationship we have had with this client.

The more you know how to handle yourself well in various situations, the more likely we are to have a commonality of interests.

If you choose to apply for this position, we will respond promptly to the receipt of your resume and the answers to the ten questions.

My name is Summer Patterson and I am the HR Director at Fisher Design.

I will be screening the candidates in collaboration with the Client Services Director to narrow the list of people we would like to meet and interview.

If you choose to apply, then follow the directions above instead calling me on the phone. We are very good at responding promptly, even if it is to tell you that we do not think there is match.

Good luck in your job search and we hope that you can become part of our team.