Job description
- Be agency's client champion by ensuring smooth daily performance on all brands allocated.
- Ensure timely development and execution of plans, campaigns, and projects to assure earnings, growth and profit goals are achieved.
- Ensure maximum integration and fit between clients' brands and target market through a rewarding collaboration with the strategy team.
- Provide strategic agency-aligned input [analysis, support, recommendations] on client's business in terms of creative concepts, use of language, music, and other campaign elements.
- Carry out regular survey of new brands in the market as well as information on competing accounts and share with client.
- Explore new business opportunities within existing portfolio and make pitches along other agency staff.
- Ensure that clients' and suppliers' contracts are properly drawn up, signed, and keep record of same.
- Manage, train and develop junior members of the team.
- Liaise with marketing teams in the global office to ensure proper “leap-frogging” of the Marketing function as required.
- Provide direction for operations and support staff ensuring that they have clear understanding of their on-the-job roles.
- Ensure quality control of internal and outgoing documents ensuring that all proposals adhere to agency's standards and manual.
- Work with agency's procurement manager and team members to ensure portfolio profitability by driving a good bargain with suppliers.
- Share responsibility for client retention by proactively identifying risks and opportunities.
Desired Skills and Experience
- Must be a marketer's marketer with a deep understanding of marketing principles and branding dynamics.
- Must be a natural 'salesperson' with excellent presentation skills.
- Must have an outgoing personality and strong interpersonal skills.
- Ideal candidate must have demonstrable IT skills.
- Must be willing to collaborate, be part of a team and share knowledge.
- Ideal candidate must be meticulous with a flair for multitasking and exhibit ability to work in a fast paced environment.
- A sound communicator and brilliant writer.
- Must possess commercial, project management as well as relationship management skills, and must have sound numerical ability.
- Minimum of a first degree or equivalent in Marketing or related fields with about 5-7years cognate experience in Marketing Communications Industry
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