New Business Coordinator

Job Description

Who we are looking for:

Wunderman Thompson is looking for a New Business Coordinator with Digital and Social experience to help grow our new global client in the US market. You’ll partner closely with the Account Leadership and cross-agency team to support client communications to ensure the delivery of great work. This is a fantastic opportunity to own and lead multiple projects from start to finish, working with a robust team across multiple sides of the business.

Your job will be to support the Business Development team to manage day-to-day communications that will be essential to new business pursuits. This is an entry-level position. You’ll be a part of a team that is generating work that is creatively brilliant, measurable and has a cultural impact.

You’ll have a pulse on the client work and the team, continuously strategizing ways to elevate the deliverables. You’ll be eager to bring people together and play a key role in building new best practices. Overall, you’re innately a people-person with a passion for juggling relationships with the client and project team.

What you’ll do:

• Support the new business team in the end-to-end delivery of new business pitches
• Research, develop and maintain a list of targeted prospects
• Distribute a weekly round-up of top prospects & industry news
• Review and write briefs with company background, ad spend, current agency, and analysis for new opportunities
• Own & update new business status & pipeline on a weekly basis for regional reporting
• Create and maintain monthly calendar of new business activity
• Maintain case study database; including writing case studies in both presentation and prose format
• Maintain/update archives of biographies, PR stories, case studies, pitch documents
• Assist with light administrative work as needed: travel, shipping, meeting booking
• Assist with presentation support, pitch/client meetings, meeting prep

What you’ll need:

• Internship in a related field is a nice-to-have, but not mandatory
• Understand the value of anticipation and proactivity and actively seeks opportunities to learn, grow, and produce ·
• Incredible attention to detail – accuracy is critical
• Well-honed project management skills – to ensure accurate delivery of projects on schedule
• A general understanding of the marketing/communications/media landscape
• Flexible; ability to adapt to changing priorities and multiple tasks
• Ability to work autonomously – self-starter
• Time management (schedules, timelines, task prioritization)
• Handles pressure exceedingly well
• Highly proficient in MS PowerPoint, MS Excel and MS Word, Keynote

About Wunderman Thompson:

Wunderman Thompson is a creative, data and technology agency. We are built to inspire growth for our clients with breakthrough creativity that helps our clients succeed. We are in a unique position to deliver growth based on three fundamental principles: we see the world differently and reject conventional thinking; we have an unbounded definition of creativity that can rethink business, culture, and brand experiences; we act decisively and accountably, owning delivery end-to-end. Headquartered in New York, we have a truly global reach with over 20,000 people in 90 markets. For more information, please visit www.wundermanthompson.com and follow us @WundermanThompson. Wunderman Thompson is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability. We rely on legitimate interest as a legal basis for processing personal information under the GDPR for purposes of recruitment and applications for employment

For more information, please visit www.wundermanthompson.com and follow us @WundermanThompson.

Wunderman Thompson is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability.

We rely on legitimate interest as a legal basis for processing personal information under the GDPR for purposes of recruitment and applications for employment.