Group Account Director
11 hours ago
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 don’t believe that intuition and gut feel are enough. That’s why everything we do starts with an insight. Our team of experts uses these insights to create impactful and accountable solutions that touch consumers at every point in their connected world.
Machine_ is part of Publicis Groupe, one of the fastest-growing global networks.
Machine’s mantra, Never Afraid, underpins our values of; doing the right thing, being curious, solution orientated and at its core ‘getting things done’. Living this mantra daily helps grow our clients’ businesses and these are the values we look for when recruiting new talent. The right personality is just as important as the right experience. We’re here to work hard and have fun while doing it.
**Job Description**:
We’re looking for an experienced and passionate **Group **Account Director **to join our Johannesburg team on one of our Key Clients - ABSA. You will be reporting into the Client Service Director with support from two Account Managers. You will need to be able to hit the ground running from day 1, be a self-starter and drive excellence.
The Group Account Director plays an essential role in servicing the Client by ensuring timeous and accurate execution of briefs, project management of all jobs and the management and tracking of all finances (processing CE’s, billing PO’s, weekly reporting).
Attention to detail and strong administrative skills are therefore a critical success factor and requirement for this role.
**Scope of the role**:
To implement and manage as tasked the successful creation, development and roll out of Client marketing communication in an integrated campaign capacity as well as manage all required administrative tasks.
**Champion**
- Ensure delivery of campaigns against agreed timelines and milestones of campaign development and execution
- Execute integrated campaigns ensuring that our campaigns work across ATL, Digital and BTL.
- Escalate issues to the Client Service Director as needed, to prevent campaign milestones being missed or budget being negatively impacted
- Actively pursue opportunities to learn and grow within the portfolio
- Living shared values and core behaviors of Machine
- Maintain excellent intercompany and interdepartmental communication and knowledge transfer
**Growth and Profitability**
- Assist the team in identifying and maintaining opportunities for optimization and harmonization / integration of the various departments and Publicis Communications agencies
- Maintain efficiencies, economies of scale & resource optimization, ensuring jobs are delivered according to the allocated budget
**Talent**
- Act as a role model for Account Management members
- Support knowledge transfer, knowledge sharing and up skilling through relevant & appropriate learning / teaching channels
- Strive to learn and grow, pro-actively seek opportunities and become involved in projects outside of allocated tasks
**Operational Excellence**
- Implement, monitor, and manage the workflow process as tasked, escalating to the Client Partner where necessary
- Proactive management of all project timelines, always ensuring on time and in full delivery of projects
- Monitor standards by checking all work is on the brief and to the desired quality of level before sending it to client
- Assist to optimize internal resource allocation and utilization
- Solid writing, communication and presenting skills in English (a good command of the English language)
- Weekly management, updating and tracking of finances (CE's, PO's, Billings) and reporting to ensure cashflow management
- Experience on Chase is preferred
- Be a strategic partner to your clients, enabling you to guide and drive better work, better business conversations and build business.
- Financial experience is preferred
- Have tough and honest conversations with your client to enable your team to deliver excellence and you create trust through positive outcomes.
- Maintain the integrity of the creative strategy and work throughout the campaign
- Exceptional management of client expectations
- Proactive & Solution driven.
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