Business Unit Director
3 months ago
Company Description
**Champion**
- Ensure delivery of campaigns against agreed timelines and milestones of campaign development and execution
- Mentor and lead junior team members while driving their successful output of campaign execution.
- Execute integrated campaigns ensuring that our campaigns work across ATL, Digital and BTL.
- Escalate issues to the Client as needed, to prevent campaign milestones being missed or budget being negatively impacted.
- Actively pursue opportunities to maintain and grow the client portfolio within the Publicis Groupe.
- Living shared values and core behaviours of Publicis Groupe.
- Maintain excellent intercompany and interdepartmental communication and knowledge transfer.
**Growth and Profitability**
- Assist the team in identifying and maintaining opportunities for optimization and integration of the various departments and Publicis Groupe agencies.
- Maintain efficiencies, economies of scale & resource optimisation, ensuring jobs are delivered according to the allocated budget and within agreed scopes.
**Talent**
- Act as a role model for account management, strategy and creative team members
- Ownership of growth plans for junior team members, acting as a mentor and guide on their development journey.
- 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
- Ensure onboarding of all new team members.
**Operational Excellence**
- Implement, monitor and manage the workflow process as tasked, escalating to the Client 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 optimise internal resource allocation and utilization.
- Solid writing, communication and presenting skills in English (a good command of the English language).
- Ownership of client scopes of work.
- Monthly management of client retainer recons to ensure accurate time tracking against budgets.
- Weekly management, updating and tracking of finances (CE's, PO's, Billings) and reporting to ensure cashflow management
**Job Description**:
**Champion**
- Ensure delivery of campaigns against agreed timelines and milestones of campaign development and execution
- Mentor and lead junior team members while driving their successful output of campaign execution.
- Execute integrated campaigns ensuring that our campaigns work across ATL, Digital and BTL.
- Escalate issues to the Client as needed, to prevent campaign milestones being missed or budget being negatively impacted.
- Actively pursue opportunities to maintain and grow the client portfolio within the Publicis Groupe.
- Living shared values and core behaviours of Publicis Groupe.
- Maintain excellent intercompany and interdepartmental communication and knowledge transfer.
**Growth and Profitability**
- Assist the team in identifying and maintaining opportunities for optimization and integration of the various departments and Publicis Groupe agencies.
- Maintain efficiencies, economies of scale & resource optimisation, ensuring jobs are delivered according to the allocated budget and within agreed scopes.
**Talent**
- Act as a role model for account management, strategy and creative team members
- Ownership of growth plans for junior team members, acting as a mentor and guide on their development journey.
- 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
- Ensure onboarding of all new team members.
**Operational Excellence**
- Implement, monitor and manage the workflow process as tasked, escalating to the Client 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 optimise internal resource allocation and utilization.
- Solid writing, communication and presenting skills in English (a good command of the English language).
- Ownership of client scopes of work.
- Monthly management of client retainer recons to ensure accurate time tracking against budgets.
- Weekly management, updating and tracking of finances (CE's, PO's, Billings) and reporting to ensure cashflow management
**Qualifications**:
- Relevant industry qualification (i.e. Advertising / Marketing / Business Management).
- At least 7 years' working experience in an Agency (FMCG experience preferable).
- At least 3 years' working experience as a Ground Account Director or Business Director on a multi-brand portfolio.
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