Strategic Account Director

At Haberman, we believe great marketing and communications can make the world better.
For more than 30 years, we’ve partnered with pioneers—organizations tackling some of society’s biggest challenges in health, sustainability, food, agriculture, education, financial wellness, and social impact. Our mission is simple:To tell the stories of pioneers making a difference in the world.
Today, we’re entering our next chapter. We’re helping clients navigate one of the biggest transformations our industry has ever experienced—the intersection of human creativity, AI, data, behavior change, and integrated marketing. We’re looking for a strategic leader who is excited to help build what’s next. If you’re someone who loves solving complex business problems, developing meaningful client partnerships, inspiring teams and helping brands grow through smart strategy and measurable results, we’d love to meet you.

About the Role
As a Strategic Account Director, you’ll serve as a trusted advisor to senior client leaders while guiding integrated marketing programs that create measurable business outcomes. You’ll lead client relationships, energize and guide a talented, always-learning team, oversee integrated campaigns, identify new growth opportunities, and help shape the future of Haberman’s client service model.
This role combines strategic consulting, integrated marketing leadership, business development, paid media expertise, and team leadership. We aren’t looking for someone to simply manage projects—we’re looking for someone who helps clients make better business decisions.
ResponsibilitiesLead Client Growth Outcomes
- Serve as the strategic lead for several client relationships.
- Leverage your own experience and all that surrounds you at Haberman to recommend the best marketing investments and ways to deliver them that generate the best business outcomes for our clients.
- Know when to respectfully push back and bring healthy tension to the client relationship and/or with the internal Haberman team in the name of generating those outcomes.
- Build trusted partnerships with client executives, including C-suite leadership.
Create Marketing-Driven Business Success
- Set realistic yet ambitious expectations with the internal team and clients

about the role
marketing plays in delivering the outcome goals set with clients.
- Lead brand and creative strategy, inclusive of conducting and engaging resources for primary and secondary research, defining audience targets, brief development and ensuring teams stay on brief throughout the development process.
- Lead internal and client alignment around the right mix and cost of marketing elements to meet or exceed the goals—ranging from performance media, shopper, brand awareness, retail media or other tactics.
- Ensure the measurement strategy and specific plan are in place prior to moving ahead so that all activity can be objectively measured and improved over time.
- Partner with and integrate the team and tactics to deliver against the goals and plan, tapping into Haberman skills including design, content strategy, paid, earned and owned content, media planning and buying and influencer marketing.
- Lead integration of the internal client team and any other agencies for seamless collaboration.
- Serve as the final strategic and quality review for plans, presentations, and major client deliverables.
- Partner with Haberman media experts to communicate media and content impacts and recommended actions clearly, simply and in a way aligned to what clients care most about.
- Identify opportunities for incremental growth through measurement, testing and optimization.
Grow Client Partnerships
- Partner closely with clients to solve their toughest marketing challenges in timely ways, and to help create trust with C-suite and board/ownership related to marketing impact on the business.
- Lead strategic planning for new initiatives and project renewals.
- Participate in new business development, including prospect meetings, proposal development and presentations.
Lead People
- Inspire collaboration across cross-functional teams
- Coach, mentor, and develop team members.
- Provide thoughtful feedback and clear direction.
- Help balance workloads and build high-performing teams.
- Contribute ideas that improve both our clients’ businesses and Haberman itself.
Experience
- 10+ years of account management or integrated marketing experience, with at least a third of that in Consumer Products.
- 3–5 years leading client teams and mentoring others.
- Significant experience leading paid media programs with annual budgets of $2M–$15M+.
- Agency experience working directly with senior client stakeholders from Brand Manager through Vice President and C-suite.
- Experience positioning a brand through to identifying the key messaging and story to unlock growth, including the research to enable those decisions.
- Experience leading integrated campaigns across multiple marketing disciplines.
- Experience connecting marketing investments to