Sterling Rice Group

Sterling-Rice Group is a nationally recognized brand building firm in Boulder, Colorado. We are seeking a Managing Director/Relationship Leader to partner with SRG practice areas and to create and cultivate business relationships and help our clients grow their brands.

Our unique fusion of strategic, creative, and culinary capabilities has helped build brands and drive growth for companies big—PepsiCo, Heinz, Schwan’s—and small—So Delicious Dairy Free, Sabra, Tervis. We’ve constructed a unique combination of brand innovation, design, and creatively intense go-to-market capabilities. Our innovation group’s capabilities include brand positioning, new product development, and brand experience work for world-class clients and brands.

Our go-to-market group creates best-in-class advertising, design, and digital work. SRG’s distinctive interconnected model is designed to deliver deep consumer insights, growth-oriented business strategies, and powerful brands. We’re in our 30th year, and about half our business is project-based strategy/innovation work and half is go-to-market. We were named by Outside Magazine as one of the Best Places to Work in America in 2011 and 2012.

Managing Director/Relationship Leaders are typically the most senior-level SRG employees with whom clients regularly interact. They build and profitably manage a book of business by establishing, maintaining, and growing client relationships. A successful Relationship Leader also provides strategic thought leadership for their clients and internal teams to ensure exceptional work quality and market impact. Internal responsibilities are critical to personal and company success and RLs must be conversant in all SRG offerings, bringing out the best of SRG’s interconnected model, guiding teams in their thinking, and serving as a steward of SRG culture.

Qualifications:

• Proven track record of business development success at an agency or consulting firm. Client-side experience is a plus.
• Broad and deep relationships with leaders at companies in the food, foodservice, healthcare, and/or personal care sectors.
• Passion for opening new doors and building deep relationships.
• Strong people, client relationship and project management skills, typically acquired through 15+ years’ experience.
• Experience generating innovative solutions to business and brand challenges.
• Skilled in working collaboratively with leaders across diverse business competencies—from highly creative to highly analytical.
• Great leadership presence and presentation skills.
• MBA desired.

While our ideal candidate would be present in Boulder, Colorado, remote working relationships could be considered for the right person.

If this opportunity sounds intriguing, please apply at the link below including a cover letter and resume in the same attachment: here.

Our unique fusion of strategic, creative, and culinary capabilities has helped build brands and drive growth for clients large and small. In addition to creating best-in-class advertising, design, and digital work, SRG’s distinctive interconnected model is designed to deliver deep consumer insights, growth-oriented business strategies, powerful brand positioning, and category new products.

Applicants must be highly accomplished in multiple creative communication modalities—offline and especially online. Must have a deep understanding of the role technology and innovation play in the creation of transformative ideas, and must be a natural leader who is looking to contribute in a significant way to the growth and success of a truly unique organization.

Responsibilities:

• Oversees and creates exceptional idea-driven integrated campaigns
• Support the team vision, goals, roles, responsibilities, and processes that align with the company’s vision and mission
• Attracts and retains talent through exceptional development and mentoring
• Partners with the account team in driving strategy and developing creative solutions
• Fosters a collaborative environment by establishing strong relationships across teams within and outside of creative team
• Understands the production process for all media, including print, digital, TV, etc.
• Key player in new and existing business presentations to key accounts
• Builds and maintains senior-level relationships with key clients
• Mentor and inspire creative staff

Requirements and Skills:

• Minimum 10 years of hands-on experience creating (and passion for) integrated advertising campaigns
• Gifted creative with a powerful portfolio demonstrating memorable and impactful creative work
• Proven ability to build, lead, motivate, and manage a team
• Strong relationship and collaboration skills
• Strategic thinker and solution provider
• Powerful, persuasive presenter
• Desire to be a part of a values-driven organization
• Entrepreneurial spirit and attitude
• Experience with large CPG and/or food clients is a plus

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Sterling-Rice Group is a 120-person integrated marketing firm located in Boulder, Colorado. We're not your typical advertising agency. From developing national advertising campaigns to crafting brand strategies that take advantage of online opportunities, the Sterling-Rice Group is uniquely skilled at positioning, leveraging, and translating brand equity in both the physical and virtual worlds. Ultimately, we help brands to succeed and endure in an ever-changing marketplace.

We are looking for a Staff Accountant to join our team. This newly created position will be responsible for general ledger accounting and will assist with the preparation of monthly financial reports, including account reconciliations. Other responsibilities include accounts receivable billing and collections, processing of payroll and month-end closing responsibilities. All of these responsibilities are expected to be carried out in a timely and accurate manner.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare and post journal entries
• Cash management duties
• Monthly account analysis and reconciliation
• Assist with the preparation of the financial reports and budget variance analysis
• Payroll processing
• Client invoicing
• Assist with accounts payable and expense report processing
• Assist with annual audit review
• Ad hoc accounting and financial analysis

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance
• Minimum of three years related accounting experience
• CPA or CPA candidate a plus
• One to two years of public accounting experience a plus
• Payroll/benefits experience
• Proficiency in MS Excel required
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Must be detail oriented and highly organized

In return for your talents, we offer you a team of smart and creative professionals in an environment where people are encouraged to both work hard and have fun. We're located in Boulder, Colorado, one of the best places to live in the United States. Top that off with outstanding benefits and a competitive salary and you'll find a company that's hard to beat.

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The Associate Media Director will drive new media thinking and platforms across SRG advertising clients; help to shape the media best practice team, including mentoring younger team members and optimizing our best practice skills; participate in new business with senior leadership, and develop, implement, and optimize media strategies and initiatives for a variety of clients. They will also oversee media planning and strategy for assigned clients.

Responsibilities:

• Media Best Practices
• Integrate interactive media with offline advertising and marketing programs
• Strategize ways to most effectively use media solutions, including interactive media, to the greatest benefit for our clients
• Seek out and share new and relevant advertising opportunities with the media department and client teams
• Supervise and mentor junior staff and assigned online team
• Participate in shaping best practice annual objectives and strategies, and help measure and evaluate accomplishments (as directed by Group Media Director)
• Client Management
• Manage dedicated clients, as directed by the Group Media Director
• Holistically oversee both offline and online media programs, and manage all aspects of client media programs, both financially and success benchmarks
• Utilize research to develop target audiences and media recommendations—analyze at a sophisticated level (MRI and Adviews)
• Write media plan recommendations and points of view across a wide array of opportunities that meet clients’ marketing
objectives and strategies
• Develop buying strategies for maximizing media dollars, and handle media RFPs and negotiations
• Create and manage media flowcharts, client media authorizations, billing, and all media vendor contracts
• Work closely with account team and client throughout campaigns to monitor, report, and optimize media objectives
• Strong vendor management and relationships
• Working skill sets
• Passion for all types of media, and for bringing new media to our clients
• Work independently and have excellent time management skills
• Detail oriented with strong communications and negotiating skills

Qualified candidates will have a minimum of 10+ years of media planning and buying experience with strong attention to detail and follow-through; prior experience managing multiple accounts and junior-level staff; and strong writing, presentation, analysis, and negotiating skills.

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Sterling-Rice Group is a nationally recognized brand strategy, innovation, and creativity firm in Boulder, Colorado. We are seeking a contract Relationship Managing Director who is well-established in the East Coast/NY metro area to create and cultivate business relationships for SRG in this region.

Our unique fusion of strategic, creative, and culinary capabilities has helped build brands and drive growth for companies big (e.g. PepsiCo, Heinz, Schwan's) and small (e.g. So Delicious Dairy Free, Sabra, Tervis Tumblers). We've constructed a unique combination of brand innovation, design and creatively intense go-to-market capabilities. Our innovation and design group's capabilities include brand positioning, new product development, and brand experience work for world-class clients and brands.

Our go-to-market group creates best-in-class advertising, design, and digital work. SRG's distinctive interconnected model is designed to deliver deep consumer insights, growth-oriented business strategies, and powerful brands. We're in our 30th year, and about half our business is project-based strategy/innovation work, and half is go-to-market work (retainer-based advertising, design and digital assignments.) Food and beverage is our biggest practice area; healthcare is second. We were named by Outside Magazine as one of the Best Places to Work in America in 2011 and 2012.

We've been very successful over the years, but see a significant opportunity to reach more companies in the East Coast region -- especially in food and personal care - whose needs likely match the things we do so well. To that end, we desire to bring on a Relationship Managing Director on a contract basis to help us cultivate relationships in this region, share SRG capabilities where appropriate, identify opportunities for us to participate in pitches and proposals, and, upon successfully securing work, collaborate with the team in Boulder to deliver on that work. As a new position, our intention is to retain a qualified candidate on a contract basis initially. Should the relationship prove mutually successful, our intention is to hire.

The ideal candidate is someone who has worked on the client side, has a solid network in the region, has good skills in both business development and in leading projects, and who might be interested in exploring the consulting/agency side.

SRG is committed to ensuring that the candidate is set up for success. We'd bring him/her to Boulder to immerse in SRG at the start, provide the proper tools, and ask senior SRG partners to join on key visits/calls.

Successful Relationship Managing Directors at SRG have generally possessed the following qualifications:

• 10+ years senior client-side experience in Packaged Goods, Healthcare or Food and Beverage. and/or consulting/agency experience at a top national or global firm.
• Strong client relationship management skills.
• Experience and interest in business development (but note this is NOT a "sales" role).
• Strong project management skills and experience.
• Excelled in both creative and analytical work.
• Successfully built businesses / brands, and managed those respective P&L's.
• Traditional and digital media experience.
• Experience in managing and reviewing market research.
• MBA desired.

If this opportunity sounds intriguing, please respond with a resume and a single-page letter that convinces us you're the right person for our team here.

We are currently looking for an Analytics Associate to join our Insights and Strategy team. The Analytics Associate will perform data analyses to support strategy, digital strategy, account planning, and research projects and initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Synthesize secondary research and syndicated data to understand and to size market dynamics and opportunity.
• Perform deep-dive category analysis of syndicated and social media data in Excel or other mathematical/statistical programs.
• Analyze and synthesize market, survey, and online data and industry reports to provide meaningful insights and hypothesis support, as well as to develop presentations and client documentation.
• Design and own specific analyses and key deliverables to assist and inform SRG’s account planning and Go-To-Market functions and campaign executions.
• Prepare charts and graphs using PowerPoint and other charting tools.
• Perform internet research on all forms of data (social media, economic, consumer, etc.) and data availability.
• Devote a portion of working capacity to addressing internal initiatives and lending expertise to other projects.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, economics, engineering, or an associated field
• 0–2 years of experience desired
• Strong strategic, analytical, and communication skills
• Intellectual curiosity, creativity, and a general desire to learn
• Enjoys problem solving with a strong strategic thought process
• Resourceful and smart about information/data gathering and knowledge of information/data requirements
• Ability to gather insights from analysis of disparate data sets
• Ability to perform responsibilities with a high level of autonomy
• Knowledge of online data analysis and an interest in being on the forefront of digital analytics, e.g., predictive media targeting, social media, etc.
• High proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint
• Knowledge of SAS, SPSS, R or other statistical software desirable

People who are successful at SRG enjoy working in a creative and fast-paced environment. The successful candidate will join a team of skilled and energetic people at an outstanding company whose core beliefs are excellence, creativity, honesty, respect, social value, responsibility, and fun.

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