Account leads. If someone said your role was a ‘project manager’ - how would you feel about that? And why?

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Feelings depend on who the someone is. Anyone on our team knows the difference, especially because our PMs are dope AF. If it’s someone I don’t know that well trying to tell me what my job is I’d tell them to fuck off aka what are you doing in this industry that you don’t know the difference. If it’s someone super green aka an intern I’d happily explain the difference without taking offense.

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I’ve been referred to as a PM by multiple people before. It’s a compliment, and I try to hone my PM skills as much as possible by attending trainings, learning about new tools, and learning on my PM department. We don’t have a traditional PM on my team so it allows me to be able to wear a couple different hats. PMs are awesome, there’s definitely a difference between the two roles but I would never take offense to being referred to as one, especially if someone recognizes all the work I do to foster a client partnership and sell in projects as well!

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Project management is of course a component of account management, as is strategy, as is ensuring creative is on brief, and so on and so on. An account person/lead should be well versed and multi-faceted. But the sole focus of my role is not that of a project manager...that’s why we hire Project Managers. @OP...Don’t let anyone’s opinion make you question your skill sets...but make sure your skill sets are well rounded and you’re not distilling your role to only project management.

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Accurate but speaks to the least fulfilling part of the role.

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Project Manager- Owns the project / Account Person Owns the Client

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We in account have different job responsibilities than a PM. If you are doing the PM’s job, you’ll never have time to do yours. Spending your days following up on project status and timelines prevents you from having the time to be strategic and grow your client’s business.

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I would feel shitty. And would have to look at what I am doing wrong (or more likely, what value am I currently not delivering) that led to someone having such a myopic view of my role

It’s tough when the top level leaders of your agency try to figure out where to put you and after telling them you can easily flex between Media and Strategy when asked what you do best, they say “oh so you would be best at project managing.” 😑

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