Group Account Director

4 weeks ago

Sandton, South Africa Prodigious Full time

**Job Description**:
We are looking for someone who views marketing and advertising as a career and not a job. If you are passionate about brand building, strategy, digital and memorable campaigns then we would love to meet you Our expectation is that you will build strong relationships with both our clients and internal agency stakeholders.

You will be reporting into the Business Director, having ownership of a large multi-brand portfolio, delivering through-the-line solutions and campaigns. You need to be able to hit the ground running from day 1, be a self-starter and consistently drive excellence with your team.

The Group Account Director plays an essential role in servicing the client by ensuring their and their teams’ timeous and accurate execution of briefs, project management of all jobs and the management and tracking of all finances. Attention to detail and strong administrative skills are therefore a critical success factor and requirement for this role.

**Scope of the role**:
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 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 allocated budget and within agreed scopes.

Talent
- Act as a role model for Account Management 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

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 2 years' working experience as a Senior Account Director on a multi-brand portfolio.
- Experience in Digital campaign delivery and execution.
- Experience in ATL campaign delivery [TV, Radio, Print), including production management.
- 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

**Personal Profile**:
**The following attributes are also essential**:

- Highly organised
- Detail orientated
- Multi-tasker
- Easily self-manage
- A team player
- Enjoy working under pressure
- Working independently and collaboratively with key team members
- Hungry to learn and grow and always willing to try something new
- Thrive in an ever-changing environment
- A passion for storytelling
- A keen eye for detail and a drive for perfection
- Deadline awareness and ability to handle all kinds of pressure
- Taking initiative and ownership of your projects, don’t be a paper-pusher
- Pro-actively solving problems
- An acute sense of responsibility and accountability
- Cool, calm and optimistic
- Enjoying the thrill of a challenge
- Motivated by a desire to add value to your clients’ business
- A sense of humour
- Celebrate the small stuff

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