Account Manager

The posting, as Excel Sports Management wrote it

Excel Sports Management is an industry-leading sports agency representing top-tier talent, blue-chip brands and marquee properties. Our success is rooted in our people, our high character reputation and our commitment to creating a diverse and welcoming workplace. We focus on team chemistry, collaboration, strong relationships, valuable networks, and ambitious ideas to deliver innovative solutions that keep our clients and agency ahead of the curve.

Excel Sports Management is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).

Position Summary : As an Account Manager, you are a project manager responsible for keeping assigned projects and workstreams organized, aligned, and moving forward from brief through delivery. You bring structure, clarity, and momentum to the work, translating direction into actionable plans, coordinating cross-functional teams, and ensuring deliverables, timelines, and responsibilities remain on track.

You work closely with Account and Operational Leadership to support the successful execution of client programs, serving as a central point of coordination across internal teams and, when appropriate, client stakeholders. You anticipate needs, track progress, identify risks, and help teams stay focused on priorities and next steps, ensuring work moves efficiently and meets both client expectations and agency standards.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Project & Cross-Functional Management

• Manage day-to-day project workflows across assigned projects and workstreams, ensuring timelines, deliverables, and responsibilities remain organized and on track.
• Translate client briefs and project direction into detailed workplans, timelines, trackers, and clear action items in partnership with project and account leads.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across Strategy, Creative, Production, Experiential, Social, and other disciplines to maintain alignment on priorities, milestones, and dependencies.
• Organize and facilitate project status meetings, internal check-ins, and working sessions, ensuring clear agendas, documentation, action items, and follow-through.
• Maintain visibility across project workstreams, tracking progress and proactively following up with teams to ensure deadlines and commitments are met.
• Support the coordination of creative development, reviews, feedback cycles, approvals, and final deliverables.
• Identify potential delays, resource gaps, or workflow challenges early, flagging risks and recommending solutions to project and account leads.
• Adapt to shifting priorities and evolving project needs, helping teams maintain organization and momentum throughout execution.

Client Partnership & Communication

• Support day-to-day client communication across assigned projects, ensuring timely updates, responsiveness, and clear follow-through.
• Develop a working understanding of the client's business, objectives, and broader marketing initiatives to provide context for project coordination.
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• Ability to manage competing priorities and maintain organization in fast-paced, evolving environments.
• Working understanding of integrated marketing workflows across Creative, Strategy, Production, Experiential, Social, and related disciplines.
• Developing financial literacy across scopes, staffing, budgets, agency time, hard costs, and reconciliation.
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to build strong working relationships across teams and disciplines.
• Strong sense of accountability and ownership for project organization, communication, and follow-through.
• Curiosity about sports, entertainment, music, technology, culture, and how brands connect with audiences.
• Comfortable using project management and collaboration tools to create transparency, efficiency, and accountability.

The pay range for this position is 82,000 - 95,000 per year. The position is also eligible for benefits and a discretionary bonus.

Please note that the foregoing compensation information is a good-faith assessment associated with this position only and is provided pursuant to the New York City Salary Transparency Law.

Ultimately, the salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, business sector, and geographic location, among other criteria.
This position is not eligible for sponsorship.

Excel Sports Management provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, leaves of absence, compensation and training.