Our clients company culture is creative, future looking & fast moving. With a less hierarchal structure than other agencies, they empower individuals and give them real responsibility. They are looking for people who are ambitious, fearless, curious, optimistic and willing to try new things - individuals with opinions and imagination that will embrace agency life.
As the Account Director, you will lead the client servicing and digital communications delivery team across a portfolio of FMCG, Automotive and Retail brands. You will be responsible for building a strategic understanding of clients' business, guiding development of strategy and inspiring the team to produce phenomenal work that meets clients' needs. You will also lead the management of resources needed to service projects, build strategic operational plans and balance the expectations of clients with the execution of creative work.
Our client offers a T-shirt friendly, casual atmosphere in an office that includes private gardens, balconies, an attic and a terrace!
Description: - Partner with internal agency teams to craft innovative ways to impact business results for the agency's clients, while ensuring that the plans are strategically sound & imaginative
- Play a leadership role in helping the agency's clients solve marketing communication challenges whilst dedicatedly identifying new opportunities to maximize value
- Identify and drive new opportunities, including new business pitches for the agency
- Deeply understand brand insights, customer segmentation, and target needs to steer actionable creative briefs. Thus, leading to effective digital campaign conceptualization and presentation
- Ensures profitable allocation of teams, while handling reporting and hourly reconciliations
- Build strong, impenetrable relationships with the agency's clients, while taking sincere interest in their business issues, industry, and competitors
- Work towards in-depth understanding of the agency's client's business issues and use the insights to help those clients articulate their needs (For example: in the form of briefs/internal briefings)
- Command the room/communicate effectively and credibly in senior client executive meetings
- Promoting the expansion of business with existing clients
- Lead, mentor and inspire the Account Managers and Executives reporting to you - guiding their development and career path through the agency by providing inspiring team training and thoughtful input on their career roadmaps
- Recruit talent that raises the bar on creativity and quality
- Allocate resources effectively, balancing client needs with profitability
- Co-ordinate with suppliers and agency departments to meet deadlines, implement best-practices, while being aligned with client expectations
- Meet with client at-least once a month to align on overall strategy, present work done & insights/research that can help the brand achieve digital marketing success
- Lead the creation of social media content and reporting for your portfolio, to ensure that nothing leaves the agency without your assurance, the work is outstanding and will exceed client expectations
- Provides astute input on first round of creative on campaigns and helps sell creative work on major campaigns
- Own the financial health of account(s), including growth, profitability and delivery of forecasts, while understanding contractual relationships, and monitoring contract compliance
Skills Criteria: - Must have experience in Digital Media Agency
- Should have worked on FMCG, Automotive and Retail brands
- Ability to stay constantly attuned to the evolving needs of client
- Ability to integrate seamlessly with agency peers to facilitate collaboration and innovation
- Ability to resolves conflict easily and quickly, reducing organization and interpersonal issues
- Effective, articulate (and slightly intimidating) communication skills
- Ability to handle pressure, long hours & deliver within deadlines
- Highly adaptive/have a passion for digital media marketing & changing technology in the fast-paced industry
- Using your skills to push clients, and the agency, creatively and strategically
- Full awareness of creative processes and techniques specifically on digital platforms
- Must currently reside in the UAE
We thank you for your application however due to the high volume of candidate applications, we only accept online applications in the first instance. Successful candidates will be contacted, if you are not successful your CV will be stored on our database but to make sure you don't miss out keep checking our website, follow us on Twitter and follow our Sapphire Recruitment LinkedIn page.
Job Details Job Location Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Company Industry
Advertising
Company Type
Recruitment Agency
Job Role Sales
Employment Type
Full Time Employee
Monthly Salary Range
Unspecified
Number of Vacancies
Unspecified
Job Ref.
JB3824739
Preferred Candidate
Career Level
Executive/Director
Residence Location
United Arab Emirates
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