Account Director

2 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa Machine_ Full time

Company Description
**Company Description**

Machine_ is a creative-solutions agency represented across Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban, and is home to over 100 adventurous minds. At Machine_ we believe that intuition and gut feel aren’t enough. That’s why everything we do starts with solving a problem.

Our solutions are born from human behaviour, unique local landscape knowledge and consumer data that unlock the right insights. Our team of passionate creatives use these to create impactful and accountable solutions that reach consumers at the right time and right place in their connected worlds.

**Job Description**:
**The Role**

We’re looking for a passionate **Account Director **to join our team, working from our Cape Town office.

As an **Account Director**, you should be someone who views marketing and advertising as a career and not a job, driven by an innate entrepreneurial spirit. You are passionate about brands, strategy and memorable campaigns, while building long-lasted and trusted relationships with your client to ensure continual business growth both for the agency and the client brand.

We are looking for someone with an entrepreneurial, growth mindset - always looking to understand what keeps your clients up at night to proactively propose creative solutions and build their business. We are looking for someone who is passionate about brands from various sectors, no matter how big or how small, with the ability to flex across multiple clients. You should be comfortable and proficient with varied communication scales, from ATL and BTL to digital and content marketing, with equal gusto across all.

You will be reporting into the **Business Lead** (positioned in Cape Town) across multiple clients and disciplines. You need to be able to hit the ground running from day 1, considering yourself to be a self-starter with a passionate drive for excellence.

If you are curious, driven and hungry for ownership, then this role is for you

**The Account Director will be responsible for**:

- Management of TTL campaigns and communication on a day-to-day basis (experience on ATL - TV, OOH, Radio - and print production is preferable as well as digital campaign experience) across multiple client portfolios.
- Management of digital Content Marketing (editorial) content for multiple client portfolios
- Management of client expectations and service delivery by being a focal and trusted point for day-to-day interaction.
- Assisting your line manager / Business Lead in driving organic business growth within your portfolio as well as flexing into areas of new business / client wins that are acquired over time.

**Qualifications**:

- Marketing qualification essential, ideally educated to a Diploma level
- 4 - 6 years’ experience in Account Management in Communication / Advertising Industry
- Seamless managing the expectations of multiple stakeholders (internally and externally) to deliver according to brief, strategy and to the highest standard
- You must have experience running jobs, projects, and campaigns from start to finish with minor senior support. You should have the drive to take ownership, and develop your portfolio
- Experience driving out the production of high-quality printed material is critical
- ATL, TV and print production is preferred
- Experience in digital is preferrable
- Experience on Chase is preferred

Additional Information
**Personality Attributes**:

- Team player with the ability to work independently
- Able to remain calm in a highly pressurized environment
- Assertive
- Proactive
- Resilient
- Approachable
- Proactive
- Energetic
- Creative “out of the box” strategic thinker
- Problem solver / solution driven
- Meticulous with attention to detail
- Other:

- Flexible to work beyond normal office hours (overtime if and when required)
- Comfortable to work from the Publicis Groupe office (on-site)

**Culture commitment**:

- We are approachable & globally supportive
- We are in this together and solution orientated
- We always do the right thing
- We are never afraid.


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