Joe Bechely

Current

• Associate Manager, Marketing Services at First Data Corporation

Past

• Senior Account Executive, Employee Engagement at Manning Selvage & Lee
• Senior Account Executive at MS&L
• Project Manager at Manning Selvage & Lee

• Host at Q Television Network
• Assistant Director at Emory University
• Graduate Assistant at Florida State University

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Education

• Florida State University
• University of Tennessee-Knoxville
• Saint Xavier

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Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Joe Bechely’s Experience

• Associate Manager, Marketing Services

  First Data Corporation

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; FDC; Financial Services industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

• Senior Account Executive, Employee Engagement

  Manning Selvage & Lee

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Public Relations and Communications industry)

  February 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 7 months)

  -Provide exceptional client service as day-to-day client contact for Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca, Novartis Consumer Health, Newell Rubbermaid, Cox Communications & MeadWestvaco
  -Develop RFP responses
  -Create & reconcile program budgets ($2,000 – $600,000), timelines & deliverables
  -Drive program implementation with on-site & virtual teams up to 10 people to ensure program completion within budget & according to schedule
  -Lead creative strategy sessions for internal/external branding, marketing communications campaigns & a recruitment advertising campaign
  -Lead brainstorm sessions resulting in newsletter & magazine naming and design, interactive employee engagement site, trade show booth design, unified town hall deliverables & program representation
  -Partner with designers to produce/deliver all program elements
  -Deliver regular updates to client via their preferred channels
  -Partner with interactive/digital agencies to deliver complete solutions for clients

• Senior Account Executive

  MS&L

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  August 2006 — August 2008 (2 years 1 month)

• Project Manager

  Manning Selvage & Lee

  (Public Company; Public Relations and Communications industry)

  August 2006 — January 2007 (6 months)

  - Served as client’s point-of-contact for on-site team
  - Tracked budget expenditures, preparing weekly client-facing reports
  - Monitored project timeline adherence and advised team and clients accordingly
  - Partnered with creative team to produce and deliver all program elements

• Host

  Q Television Network

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Entertainment industry)

  August 2005 — January 2006 (6 months)

  - Interviewed guests during a live, daily, interactive variety/talk show
  - Individually produced and wrote segments
  - Scheduled and briefed guests for on-air appearances
  - Produced and wrote field pieces for various shows on the network

• Assistant Director

  Emory University

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  July 2004 — August 2005 (1 year 2 months)

  - Coordinated and planed the Emory University orientation programs
  - Recruited, selected, trained, supervised and coached 8 Orientation Captains and 130 Orientation Leaders
  - Identified, researched, developed and lead Orientation Leader retreat and training
  - Evaluated and assessed summer orientation program
  - Created and implemented an innovative, late-night program series called Fridays @ 10
  - Coordinated annual Town Hall meeting with former President Jimmy Carter and freshman class
  - Managed $100,000 budget for all programs
  - Edited and published Oxford College Continuee Student Handbook

• Graduate Assistant

  Florida State University

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 2002 — May 2004 (1 year 10 months)

  - Coordinated and planed aspects of the orientation programs
  - Recruited, selected, trained, supervised and coached 29 Orientation Leaders throughout summer orientation sessions
  - Identified, researched, developed and lead Orientation Leader retreat and training
  - Evaluated and assessed summer orientation program
  - Managed budget expenditures for assigned projects
  - Implemented new freshmen mentoring program from inception to implementation
  - Advised 13 Orientation Leader volunteers throughout mentoring program, meeting with them monthly
  - Edited Florida State University Student Handbook

Joe Bechely’s Education

• Florida State University

  M.S. , Education , 2002 — 2004

• University of Tennessee-Knoxville

  B.S. , Education , 1997 — 2002

• Saint Xavier

  college prep. 1993 — 1997