Job description
To lead, inspire, set direction and drive to provide excellent services and manage the delivery of exceptional creative product that meets and/or exceeds the client’s business objectives.
The position provides leadership to the GAD’s that are each responsible for a portfolio of clients.
Key responsibilities/accountabilities:
- Responsible for business development in terms of growing existing client revenue as well as new business deals.
- Oversee at a Senior level the overall operation of their client services team to ensure efficiency, quality, service and cost-effective management of resources.
- Deliver business initiatives that enhance development of skills, knowledge and good practice in the agency.
- Deliver tactical solutions when necessary, to achieve higher quality within the confines of cost and time ensuring that any change is clearly communicated across the business.
- Identify opportunities for improved systems or use of resources, engage with Ops to implement change within the Agency to achieve operational excellence.
- Through close relationship with the clients, continuously develop the strategic direction of each client account and ensure communication of any directional changes to GAD’s.
- Ensure delivery of high standards of client satisfaction, measuring this through feedback, surveys, response to campaigns and continuously adapting and adjusting approaches to benefit client needs.
- To actively pursue and support the delivery of new business into the Agency through leadership or involvement of pitch project work and delivery.
- Ensure optimal integration between various agencies working on the client's account
Requirements
- Experience managing teams and large accounts
- Minimum 2 years’ experience working in a BUD role or 6 years at a Lead/Client service
- Manager/CSD role, or at a Senior level
- At least 8 years’ having been directly accountable to work with client, liaise and engage on
- (illustrating sound understanding) budgets, price quotes/CEs and invoices
- A sound knowledge of the relevant structures and processes in the agency
- Build presentations and deliver/present in a confident and compelling manner (including at Executive level)
- Strategic expertise in terms of insight and value-add (in an advisory capacity to client)
- Be able to present concept to clients, unpack them and respond to questions raised
- Visionary leadership skills
- Sound overall business acumen
- Strong understanding of financial management and budgeting
- Excellent client management and negotiation skills
- The ability to write comprehensive and insightful briefs
- Confident communication skills – always ensuring timeous response to written
- communication for internal and external stakeholders (including emails, meeting requests/calendar invites, text or WhatsApp messages, phone calls & voicemail)
- Promptly raising any concern around communication excessively outside of acceptable hours of communication or unreasonably cutting into personal/family time so that this can be addressed, and reasonable measures agreed upon
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