Account Manager.

Our client is an insights-driven, integrated marketing agency with deep capabilities in youth.

They have worked with both brands and governmental agencies alike, to create effective marketing and branding campaigns on both local and regional scale

They are looking for an experienced Account Manager to lead and manage the Account Management team.

The selected individual needs to have a strong understanding of the advertising/marketing landscape and be passionate about the job.

Role: Account Manager

Location: Singapore

Salary: S$3,500 - S$4,000 per month

Responsibilities

Client Relationships:

• You are required to be client-facing, receiving new briefs, and building a strong relationship with the client

• You are also required to grow the account, securing bigger budgets, and retain the account year on year

• Effective management of client expectations is essential; support your teams to ensure the timely and accurate delivery of all aspects of campaign management, identifying improvements to ways of working where required.

Team Management:

• You will have to manage the Account Management team, grooming and nurturing the team to be better leaders of their own which includes the setting of personal objectives and performance reviews

• A weekly work-in-progress check-in is required to be carried out in the team

• Delegation of the appropriate amount of tasks to ensure an acceptable workload

• Identifying opportunities for your executives to take ownership of tasks or projects (under your supervision) to aid development

• Giving the executives adequate room for them to grow within their roles and eventually beyond

Project Management:

• You are to handle all aspects of client campaigns from planning to delivery

• You are also required to be the quality control officer, ensuring that all content that goes out is vetted through and to meet the standards of the Agency

Integration of Teams:

• You will be in contact with the Management, Creative and Finance Team on a weekly basis

• You are also required to respond to information request from the Management and the Account Directors

• Work closely with the Managing Director and Business Director to deliver new business RFPs and pitches as required

Processes:

• You are to ensure that processes are tightly managed and that the Account Management team follows these processes

Financial Management:

• You are required to set and manage campaign budgets

• To enforce on the Account Management team that they have to strictly follow the budgets that are set aside for every campaigns/projects that they are working on

• To assist with financial reporting and smooth running of the finance function

• Be responsible for the accurate recording and billing of client media spend and fees. Follow the defined processes and timelines to ensure you have a clear view of revenue performance

• Ensuring your teams and the Finance department is completing billing and reconciliation of campaign spend/income in a timely and accurate manner so suppliers are paid on time, and clients are invoiced on time.

Requirements

• Minimum 3-4 years' agency-side experience in a digital strategy and/or execution role

• Experience managing a team to deliver best-in-class client campaigns

• Experience managing senior client relationships

• Excellent organizational skills - Efficient and great project management skills

• Pro-active attitude and determined - Willing to take on any challenge and task assigned to you

• An eye for details

• Strategic thinker

• The ability to work under pressure and assimilate large quantities of information quickly, while maintaining attention to detail

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Articulate presenter, with the ability to present to senior clients and internal agency teams, comfortable with showing what data means and how we can take action based upon it

• Commitment to delivering first-class work every time, and never leave a quality issue unchecked

• Highly commercial - selling value, negotiation, client relationship management skills, how to be a trusted business advisor

EA License Number: R2198671

Agency License Number: 11C4388

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