Brand Manager

Who We Are

BUNTIN is a fiercely independent, full-service, Adweek-recognized “Top U.S. Ad Agency.” Headquartered in Nashville for more than 50 years, our $230MM agency proudly serves a roster of tenured clients, including SERVPRO, Champion Petfoods, Trex, CFP Board, Republic Bank, and more. Our mission is to build Brand Conviction in a world that too often stops at Brand Attention.

Brand Manager

As a Brand Manager, you will gather and organize data for competitive, industry, and market analysis. You will assist account leaders with finances and collaborate with internal agency teams such as Creative, Media, Project Management, and Strategy to ensure deadlines are met. You must have the ability to gain an exceptional understanding of the client’s business and objectives, as well as how to navigate internal teams and client relationships to drive results.

Responsibilities:

1. A commitment to learning, growing, and continuing to advance at the individual, brand team, and agency level
2. Ability to quickly develop a deep understanding of the client’s brand, target customers, industry/competition, business objectives, activation plans, and performance indicators
3. Exceptional project management skills as well as the ability to effectively manage internal and client triage under tight deadlines; support senior members of the Brand Management Team
4. Contribute to discussions with internal team members, helping set clear expectations on timeline and deliverables, and clearly communicating them to multiple stakeholders.
5. Collaborate with the Workflow Team to ensure client deliverables are understood by relevant internal teams and scheduled; partner with Workflow to ensure timely delivery.
6. Work across the agency to develop accurate and informed scopes of work, including schedules and budgets; help manage budgets and accurate client billing.
7. Anticipate and detect areas of conflict and opportunities to avoid financial, operational, and/or strategic issues. Address or escalate each issue quickly and smartly.
8. Proactively identify opportunities to effectively achieve client business goals and propose actionable solutions to senior Brand Management team members.
9. Prepare and contribute to client-ready presentation materials and memos that communicate the agency’s point of view in a thoughtful, fact-based, and relevant manner.
10. Strong interest in developing a deep understanding of what motivates consumers and translating that into relevant actions for the brand – always asking why?
11. Stays up-to-date on the economics and competitive dynamics behind the client’s industry, business model, and consumer motivations

Qualifications:

1. The right candidate will possess a Bachelor’s Degree and two years of experience working for a leading brand, advertising, or social/digital agency
2. A willingness to roll up your sleeves and be a relentless collaborator, leader, and innovator – and a desire to never stop learning or growing
3. Unmatched work ethic and motivation to deliver exceptional results; measure success by results, and willing to do what it takes to deliver
4. Excellent analytical skills, commitment to client objectives, and proven ability to manage expectations
5. Effective time-management, impeccable organization, and the flexibility to adapt quickly to changes
6. Amazing communication and presentation skills – you’re articulate, straightforward, and engaging
7. An unrelenting passion for marketing and a drive to bring the best of it to life, every day

BUNTIN CULTURE

BUNTIN is headquartered in a completely revitalized 1920s-era train maintenance shed in Nashville’s Railyard District. We embody the legacy of hard work that’s taken place in this railyard day after day through the work we do for our clients with Ambition, Insight, Creativity, and Hustle. These make up the foundation of who we are and how we treat each other.

In addition to the work we do for our clients, we contribute time and money to AdHope, our fully integrated, employee-led cause branding capability that creates great work that does good in our world. Through AdHope, we’ve given more than $1M in donations and grants supporting community causes and more than $5M in in-kind services supporting not-for-profit or related organizations.

BUNTIN MISSION

Our mission is to build Brand Conviction in a world that too often stops at Brand Attention. This is as true for our team members as it is for our work with client partners. In addition to our benefits package, we offer five paid days of Conviction Time Off so each team member can pursue their passions outside of work. CTO days can be used for things like coaching a team, creating art, writing a story, taking a mission trip, and more.