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Our client, a global marketing and cooperate communication firm is looking for a Strategy Director who will be an inspirational leader on brands, trusted as such internally and externally by clients and creatives for delivering strategic thinking that answers their business problems, and a champion of their organization’s creative excellence.

Job Summary:

The Strategy Director will manage multiple projects and clients to a very high degree of quality, lead client engagement, form and grow trusted relationships, create high-impact strategic content, and maintain client profitability.

KEY RESPONSIBLITIES

• Develop role as strategic client partner and advisor across ongoing brand initiatives
• Create and direct innovative and thoughtful strategic solutions to complex brand and communications challenges on behalf of our portfolio of clients
• Consult with clients on a range of strategic brand initiatives, including brand positioning, brand architecture, brand analytics, internal brand engagement and digital brand strategy
• Build upon a deepening knowledge of business, brand and clients to deliver strategies that continually evolve client brands
• Collaborate with clients and internal teams and partners to build and execute on strategic recommendations that will ultimately be brought to market across multiple channels
• Collaborate with creative teams to shape creative expression and execution
• Collaborate with project management to ensure that initiatives have appropriate resources for development, and are ultimately delivered on time and on budget
• Inspire and mentor junior strategy team members
• Any other duties that may be assigned

New Business Development

• Engage in broad-based branding discussions with clients to become trusted counselor, and in so doing identify further opportunities for mutually beneficial growth of BBDO and client relationship
• Follow up and manage the new business process on select leads generated by the firm’s marketing efforts, including conducting research and contributing strategy to presentations and proposals

PREFERRED QULAIFICATIONS

• Degree-qualified in management, social sciences or a business-related discipline; a relevant post-graduate degree will be an added advantage.
• 6-8 years of proven management experience in roles that demand coordination of multiple business entities
• Demonstrable success at a senior level in the marketing communications industry and thorough understanding of the market.
• Extensive client service experience working with both local and regional clients especially in building brand and communications strategy
• Strong relationship and interpersonal skills.

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The Head of Digital will take lead on all digital projects. He/she will work with the strategy director to plan, execute and track digital campaigns that resonate and can be converted into measurable outcomes.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Actively drive and shape the digital transformation efforts at the organization.
• Assist in the creation of integrated marketing campaigns and promotions, with the aim of driving online aspects of campaigns
• Analyze data, monitor digital marketing campaigns and evaluate results
• Oversee the leads generation process, from both online channels
• Actively contribute to new business pitches
• Work with cross-functional teams (Creative, Strategy, Product, UX/UI, support, data, client teams) to optimize reach and conversions across campaigns
• Lead performance marketing strategy (optimization for and experimentation on Google Adwords Search, Re-marketing, Facebook ads Campaigns, referral marketing)
• Create, manage and experiment with new user acquisition campaigns; and retention strategies
• Prepare and present recommendations, dashboards, and findings from experimental data all the way up to the executive level
• Conduct market research, digital audits and competitive monitoring on behalf of clients
• Marketing Analytics- Prepare and deliver presentations and measuring the impact and effectiveness of past promotional campaigns
• Social Media Analytics- Employ analytics to gather important data (social media, web analytics, rankings etc.). Also create reports on social media marketing and other metrics

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to manage relationships with internal/external customers to resolve issues
• Good communicator
• Demonstrable ability to multi-task and adhere to deadlines
• Well-organized with a customer-oriented approach

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Our client, a global marketing and cooperate communication firm is looking for a Group Business Director to oversee all activities of a major client’s account and coordinate the various agencies involved in the business.

JOB SUMMARY

The Group Business Director will be responsible for the leadership and coordination of all the operations and business activities of the consortium members according to the strategic directions set out by the Board.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Managing the client relationship and providing strategic guidance at the highest level for fully integrated communications.
• Developing operational plans to achieve the company and clients’ goals and objectives of while ensuring that the client’s business and marketing objectives are met.
• Ensure that the rights processes, policies and structures are in place for company, partner agencies and its client to drive effectiveness and efficiency.
• Working closely with the Africa Regional Director of a leading global communication agency to ensure local insights and market priorities are included in centrally developed campaigns; and to ensure global/regional campaigns are effectively implemented in Nigeria.
• Overseeing the company’s financial performance; managing time and resource allocation for all integrated creative agencies working on the business, ensuring accurate and timely billings from all agencies working on the business, and managing client payments and payments to all agencies
• Building and successfully leading a high-performance team

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Degree-qualified in management, social sciences or a business related discipline; a relevant post-graduate degree will be an added advantage.
• 6-8 years of proven management experience in roles that demand coordination of multiple business entities
• Demonstrable success at a senior level in the marketing communications industry and thorough understanding of the market, with specific expertise in servicing the telecommunications industry
• Extensive client service experience working with both local and regional clients especially in building brand and communications strategy
• Good understanding of finance and financial controls for a successful business
• Strong relationship and interpersonal skills to interact with client C-suite and company Board

Added Advantage:

• Experience in multiple areas of Marketing Communication especially advertising
• Experience with a technology or telecoms business and advertising agency experience

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Our client, a global marketing and cooperate communication firm is looking for an organized, goal-driven and Integrated strategist to plan content for their social media and offline accounts.

JOB SUMMARY:

The Integrated Planner will be responsible for planning content for the organization’s social media and offline account, as well as, researching social media trends and page analytics.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop, implement and manage social media strategies and plan
• Integrate Agency insight planning tools into strategies, to build a rounded approach.
• Define relevant social media KPIs by brand need
• Build an online community around define target audience
• Run competitive analysis
• Monitor brand mentions
• Measure the success of executed social media campaigns with recommendations
• Be an early adopter of social media trends and technology
• Work in a multidisciplinary diverse team
• Track and analyze SEO to provide effective solutions for content optimization
• Network with industry professionals and influencers
• Have an opinion and a voice within the team
• Create content for several social media platforms
• Plan and schedule content in advance
• Research new social media trends and hashtags
• Work with client departments in partnership to strategize content ideas
• Use analytics tools to gauge the success of posts and campaigns

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• BSc. Degree in any discipline
• 5-10 years relevant work experience in any capacity
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to manage relationships with internal/external customers to resolve issues
• Good communicator
• Demonstrable ability to multi-task and adhere to deadlines
• Well-organized with a customer-oriented approach