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Job description / Role
Associate Account Director - Retail/Branded Luxury Products Experience
The ideal Associate Account Director is a highly passionate, collaborative, outgoing, creative oriented leader. A seasoned candidate will demonstrate the following responsibilities:
• Provide Strategic and Marketing Leadership
o Works with clients to uncover business needs and objectives, craft appropriate strategies, and identifies/implements products to help achieve client goals.
o Develop the importance of BTL as well as OOH and online marketing in the overall marketing mix.
o Develop broad industry expertise.
• Build and Grow Client Relationships
o Understand clients' business and generate new ideas to enhance client performance.
o Build trust, credibility, and client referrals.
o Develop multi-tiered agency-client relationships and ties.
o Cater to the daily requests of the account.
• Effectively Manage Team
o Manage a team of one to two people (currently one account executive)
o Foster teamwork and a constructive work environment.
o Provide team leadership that rewards creativity.
o Able to provide constructive feedback that allows high creative supremacy while checking every piece of work before it goes to client.
• Manage Financial Performance
o Achieve client targets within the context of the underlying opportunity.
o Maintain or improve account profitability.
o Review all production costs with upmost details, negotiate and question every aspect of it
• Contribute to the Firm
o Balance client demands with participation in broader agency initiatives
Requirements
Experience:
• College degree required, MBA preferred
• Approximately 5+ years of related industry experience, preferably handling luxury brand or malls or retail account marketing experience at a reputable multinational advertising agency
• Demonstrated track record of client relationship development and service
• Proven experience in managing teams working cross-functionally within an organization
• Strong knowledge or experience in retail businesses, account management/coordination, fashion, client/campaign strategy, high end photoshoot and activations BTL activities.
• Strong interpersonal/communication skills
Skills required:
• Significant experience in professional client relationship management
• A background in advertising, design plus retail / fashion
• The ability to plan and strategize at a senior level
• A persuasive and confident approach to creative projects
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Effective team management capabilities
• A keen attention to detail and budgetary restraints
• Full awareness of creative processes and techniques – including digital platforms
• Arabic language is a plus but not a must
About the Company
MENACOM, part of WPP and Y&R Brands, with headquarters in Dubai, is the Middle East and North Africa region’s leading communications conglomerate. The group includes advertising agencies Young & Rubicam, Intermarkets and Partnership; public relations firms ASDAA Burson-Marsteller, Raee and Polaris; direct marketing specialists Wunderman; media specialist firm mec; and interactive firm Tattoo.
With over 940 employees in its network of 33 offices, MENACOM provides marketing communications services in 13 countries across the Middle East, Levant and North Africa.