Account Director
5 months ago
**Company Description**
The Role: We are looking for an experienced and digitally focused Account Director with a strong strategic eye and a love for digitally led creative to join our agency team in Johannesburg.
**Job Description**:
Scope of the role:
Champion
- Ensure delivery of projects against agreed timelines and milestones of development and execution plan. - Perform day-to-day tasks to ensure integrated campaigns are delivered in partnership with multiple agency stakeholders, ensuring that our campaigns work across all digital touchpoints. - Identify potential risks of a project and communicate this to the Group Account Director to prevent project milestones being missed or budgets being negatively impacted - Actively pursue opportunities to learn and grow within the portfolio - 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 harmonisation / integration of the various departments and Publicis Groupe agencies. - Maintain efficiencies, economies of scale & resource optimisation, ensuring jobs are delivered according to the agreed timings
Talent
- 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 Group Account Director where necessary - Proactively manage 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 utilisation - Solid writing, communication and presenting skills in English (a good command of the English language) - Implement and manage digital and social campaigns, with specific emphasis on managing tight timings and deadlines. - Develop digital project plans, with effective and timeous delivery from concept to execution. - Work alongside creative, strategy, media, digital development and data teams; managing multiple campaigns at the same time.
**Qualifications**:
- Relevant industry qualification (i.e. Advertising / Marketing / Business Management) - At least 6 years' working experience in an Agency - At least 2 years' working experience as an Account Director - Experience in Digital campaign delivery across all digital channels - Strong experience in production, understanding the process and requirements to take a shoot from concept to delivery through the entire pre-production, production and post-production ecosystem. - A good command of the English language (both written and verbal) - Proficient in MS Office (i.e. Word / Excel / PowerPoint etc.) - Proficient in use of Chase Software for financial tracking - Proficient in conflict management, ensuring you are able to communicate clearly and respectfully
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