Senior Account Director

3 weeks ago


Sandton, South Africa TBWA South Africa Full time

**TITLE**:
Senior Account Director

**LOCATION**:
Johannesburg, South Africa

**GROUP**:
Region Overseas Content Studio

**REPORT TO**:
Content Studio Lead

team x is Omnicom’s newly created integrated worldwide agency for Mercedes-Benz.

Our mission - make ‘The best, or nothing’ a reality for Mercedes-Benz and its customers.

We are on the lookout for talent with the X-factor to bolster its newly built Content Studio in South Africa. The studio will be responsible for creating and delivering the world's most advanced luxury automotive creative campaigns, to fuel the world’s most valuable luxury car maker as it shifts gears to lead the industry in electric mobility of the future and build the world’s most desirable cars.

**ABOUT THE ROLE**

You will provide inspiration and be a driving force for the account with the Content Studio Lead. You will be expected to gain respect and trust through your phenomenal interpersonal skills, creative thinking, and leadership to ensure projects and campaigns run smoothly and achieve their creative and commercial potential.

Reporting into the Content Studio Lead, this is a fast-paced environment that is demanding, fulfilling and fun, and requires the daily coordination of internal and external stakeholders. The agency will be dependent on you to give your projects direction and maintain a clear strategy to achieve the very best outcome and work.

**YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Day-to-day management of creative campaigns production
- Regular communication and liaison with clients at a senior level
- Leading end-to-end projects working with your colleagues
- Appreciating creativity and its interpretation and communicating this, both internally and externally. Challenging the client and pushing the boundaries of creativity and innovation
- Writing and contributing to briefs and developing insights to assist the planning and creative process.
- Working with results, using Excel, and understanding the typical marketing metrics to evaluate campaign performance

**SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE**
- 5-6 years Client Service experience. Currently in an Account Director role.
- Strong understanding of the automotive industry
- Global experience would be a plus
- You will be flexible and adaptable, and have a demonstrable eye for detail
- Commercial understanding for the ‘bigger picture effect’ of creative on results and sales
- Ability to work on large, fast paced accounts, and be excited to work across multiple brands with multiple project deliveries
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Collaborative, curious, innovative, adventurous, and ambitious. Personality counts, and we want to see your individuality shine through at interview stage.

**VALUES**
- Can do attitude
- Process and performance driven
- Team player
- Empathetic
- Enthusiastic

You will be part of an international team x across multiple markets and hubs, including a support network of team members and training to develop your skillsets, with opportunities to participate in training across all team x marketing disciplines.

**REGIONS OVERSEAS**

Region Overseas(RO) is an incredibly diverse region - spanning LATAM, Australia, Turkey, Russia, South East Asia, Japan, South Korea and beyond.



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