Chief Operating Officer at Phillips Consulting

Description

Our client is a major player in the marketing communication and advertising sector with a desire to hire a Chief Operating Officer to oversee their ambitious growth targets in a subsidiary out-of-home company with a diverse portfolio, and to drive business development, revenue and profit.

The COO role is an executive management position, reporting only to the Group Managing Director with the responsibility to drive extensive and sustainable growth and the candidate is expected to be an experienced and efficient leader with customer-facing people skills, business acumen, and proven experience in OOH, digital or media planning and buying/advertising environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement business strategies, plans, and procedures for the effective operation
• Set comprehensive goals to drive company growth plans across wide-ranging OOH solutions
• Design and deploy an effective customer acquisition, retention and relationship management strategy/framework to expand the organiation’s clientele.
• Identify customer/market needs and develops value propositions to meet the needs
• Develop and implement a comprehensive marketing plan to acquire significant clientele from identified customer segments.
• Manage company’s overall sales programs and market intelligence process to meet customer needs and increase revenue generation
• Engage in business development, customer acquisition, presentation, business account pitches and participate in expansion activities (investments, acquisitions, corporate alliances etc.)
• Oversee daily operations and lead cross-functional teams in Marketing, Sales, Business Development, Client Service, Operations etc. to encourage maximum performance
• Evaluate performance and submit reports by analyzing/interpreting data and metricss

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with MBA or MSc.
• Preferably female candidate of not more than 40 years with proven experience as Chief Operating Officer, Business Development, or Account Director in relevant industry.
• A very good communicator with strong presentation, listening, written, and verbal skills.

• Resilient and result-driven with great prospecting skills and the ability in developing strong relationships and partnerships with relevant stakeholders.
• Extensive knowledge of the advertising and media industry.

• Demonstrable competence in strategic planning and business development.
• Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, and Outlook.