Account Executive Marketing

JOSH M. HAUSER

OVERVIEW

My background is primarily agency-side project/account management. My industry area

of expertise is Financial Services, with functional specialties that include: Marketing

Communications, Direct Marketing, Strategic Planning, Channel Marketing and

Business Development.

E XPERIENCE

Independent Contractor

2009 – Date Salt Lake City, Utah

Marketing Consultant: I target and collaborate with small businesses. I deliver

comprehensive overviews and strategic recommendations for organizations with little or

no marketing departments. Offerings include: competitive analysis, strategic planning,

and project management.

Adjunct Faculty (Salt Lake Community College): Design and teach English

composition courses that emphasis media and communications. I bring my

educational background and career experience into the classroom to effectively

present and instruct students on issues related to media, advertising, communications,

design, and business writing.

2007 – 2009 Rivet Global (Div. of DraftFCB) San Francisco, CA

ACCOUNT SUPERVISOR

Rivet Global is a full service advertising agency whose clients include Splenda, Nokia,

Jim Beam, and Visa. Responsibilities included managing the client relationships

associated with the day-to-day, and overall strategic, supervision of several Visa

promotional marketing programs involving the following channels: direct mail, email,

websites, CD-ROMs, inbranch, and print.

Account lead on Visa’s Retail Branch National Promotion ($5 million plus budget) – a multi-

channel promo with over 140 components including POS, direct mail, interactive content, etc.

Participation in the promotion more than doubled under my management.

Managed and defined vision for B2B and B2C initiatives including campaigns for Visa

Signature and Visa payWave. Received special recognition for developing inspiring creative

briefs that effectively guide project development.

Participate in new business presentations to clients. E.g. led a pitch on an account

that the agency won resulting in a projection of $1.5 million in agency revenue.

Managed several lead generating and loyalty direct mail campaigns, including several multi-

variable DM packages. Consistently outperformed client goals and exceeded industry

averages for response rates.

Provided effective/timely communications to agency staff, clients, and outside suppliers and

partners including; letter-shop, fulfillment house, interactive and translation agencies, etc.

Led and coordinated weekly meetings to ensure all cross-functional teams and agency

partners were collaborating effectively. Managed and provided guidance to AE’s and Senior

AE’s.

2004-2006 Graduate School (see Education Section)

2001–2004 Response Prospecting & Loyalty Sandy, UT

SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE

Response is a full-service agency specializing in Direct and loyalty Marketing. As part of

the Response team, my clients included: Altius Health Plans, Intermountain Healthcare,

Comfort Systems U.S.A, Zions Bank and Wells Fargo

Worked with senior staff to build estimates, budges and briefs. Was rapidly promoted from

AE to Senior AE where I maintained daily contact with clients to ensure projects were

completed on time, on strategy and on budget.

Developed an advanced understanding of traditional media, particularly direct mail where I

was the project lead on everything from dimensional mailers to multi-variable test-and-learn

campaigns.

Intimately involved in all aspects of client relations; operated as liaison between client and

the agency, agency partners and vendors.

Key player in agency new business development initiatives. Participated in designing and

delivering new business pitches that resulted in new accounts with Comfort Systems and

Altius Health Plans.

2000-2001 MRI of Salt Lake Salt Lake City, UT

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE

Management Recruiters of Salt Lake is a leading recruiting firm with over a thousand offices

across the country. Of those offices, Salt Lake was ranked number three in 2000 based on

generated revenues.

Negotiated and secured numerous outside-agency contracts.

Identified prospective clients through various research methods (i.e.; database analysis,

internet prospecting, cold-call sourcing).

Developed and managed client relationships.

Acted as liaison between candidates and executives in order to meet objectives and goals.

Organized and presented office presentations on industry strategies.

EDUCATION

2004-2006 University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA

M.F.A., English/Creative Writing

Henry Hoynes Fellow

1995-2000 University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT

B.A., History

University of Utah President’s Award 1999-2000

Deans list 1998-2000

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