Job Vacancies at Casers Group

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• End-to-end champion of the post-sale ad campaign creation and execution process.
• Work with clients and Account Executives to understand campaign goals and objectives.
• Offer creative recommendations, based on best practices, and seek innovative solutions for custom campaigns to improve outcomes.
• Coordinate creative submissions and gather creative assets from client all over the Nigeria - and all over the world.
• Build strong direct relationships with co-creative partners, act as point person for customer questions and concerns, and deliver superior and professional support.
• Work with design, copy and production across the entire Company network to produce compelling promotional campaigns that blow away our client's expectations.
• Represent S&B team and partner interests at internal creative review meetings.
• Leverage workflow tools as well as meetings to hand off complete assets and insertion order details to Ad Operations for trafficking.
• Set timelines and manage expectations with all internal and external constituencies.
• Analyze and report campaign performance to Account Team.

REQUIREMENTS

• First degree with 3-5 years of experience including 2 years of account/partnership management or business development experience.
• Solid history of relationship growth successes.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to carefully manage expectations across constituencies.
• A love of meeting - and beating – deadlines.
• Experience trafficking campaigns.
• High attention to detail, highly organized and efficient.
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks without supervision.
• Strong teamwork and cross-functional coordination is a key for success.
• Excellence analytically with technical, contractual and financial issues.
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced, constantly evolving team environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of MS Office, online advertising and associated tools.

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DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage all of the trafficking/scheduling/routing of projects from inception to completion.
• Meet with the heads of departments to learn about the status of existing projects, and details about new projects coming into the agency.
• Create a schedule for new jobs and assign those tasks using the trafficking system in place (this is usually done with software).
• Review current and future timelines and job statuses with the heads of department, and if necessary, the individuals working on the jobs.
• Direct the workflow to and from internal marketing communications teams.
• Partner with Creatives, Account Managers and overall team to ensure projects are completed on time and deadlines are met
• Act as the liaison between multiple departments, including client services, creatives, production, media planning and third-party vendors and management personnel.
• Ensure every job that comes into the agency must flow through the required departments on time.
• Create detailed schedules, set deadlines at each stage of the project.
• Reschedule projects based on new or changing priorities. This often happens when clients initiate rush jobs, or the agency becomes involved in a pitch
• Make sure that work is distributed equally and fairly between creative teams and other departments.
• Monitor the creative process, often with the help of a trafficking system, and make adjustments accordingly.
• Control Creative Project or Marketing campaign.
• Set deadlines and check on the accuracy of each ad before it appears in a publication, on the radio, on television or on the Internet.
•     Report to management about the current workflow, and communicate any possible issues with too much, or too little, work coming into the agency.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• This position requires a minimum of 5-7 years advertising agency traffic experience.
• Candidate must have demonstrated experience handling high volumes, multiple projects and multiple accounts.
• Experience in both on- and offline advertising is preferred.
• Candidate must have outstanding written and oral communications skills.
• Excellent organizational and documentation skills are required.

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The Agency Producer is responsible for creative development, budgeting, negotiating with the production company, music and artist contracts, post-production and getting copy to stations.

Duties

• Work closely with the Executive creative director in terms of understanding the ECD’s vision and expectations for TV and radio production.
• Have a solid understanding of all elements of print production
• Be able to cost jobs and effectively mark those jobs up.
• Be responsible for briefing suppliers on what is required for a particular job.
• Assess supplier quotes
• Work with finance to finalize Cost Estimates to clients.
• Oversee all aspects of the production of a job with suppliers
• Quality control
• Find effective ways of saving money for the agency in the process of production
• Effect managing production vendors
• Identify and negotiating with preferential suppliers in conjunction with the finance department.
• Have a strong relationship with the traffic department in terms on meeting deadlines and managing the flow of work
• All contractual issues relating to production will be the responsibility of the production manager in conjunction with the Chief Financial Officer / Head of Finance.

Responsibilities:

• Assist with production of high-end elements, on-air promotions and marketing projects for radio and TVCs.

• Responsible for producing short form features that are editorially exciting, timely, and presented in a manner that is consistent with the tone of the features.

• Assist in the development of look and feel of radio jingles and telecasts, marketing, and an-air promotions.

• Responsible for developing and creating new story lines and effective methods of presenting that story.

• Organizes and manages incoming highlights and features regarding the campaign elements of radio jingles and TVCs.
• Coordinate the activities of writers, directors, managers, actors, and other personnel throughout the production process

• Co-ordinate various aspects of production including script writing, editing, audio, camera work, and music.

• Guide the development of standards to ensure production elements and assets reflect the brand or theme concept.

• Monitor post-production processes to ensure accurate completion of details.
• Conduct meetings with staff to discuss production progress and check-ins to ensure production objectives goals are met

Requirements:

• A University degree
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in production and post-production
• A working knowledge of Final Cut editing systems
• Strong writing skills with good storytelling ability.
• Good creative instincts and knowledgeable about radio and television innovation and technology.
• A familiarity of advertising and an understanding of promotions and marketing; and must have the ability to work as a team