Business and Activation Director

Job description / Role

- Driving business growth through potential/new and existing clients
- Developing a proactive action plan
- Working with the group account director on generating new accounts
- Producing and delivering against an agreed account plan and budget
- Producing and monitoring accurate and clear forecasting
- Meeting and liaising with the clients to discuss and identify their requirements
- Working on creating unique and engagement tools for clients
- Working with agency colleagues to devise an activation campaign that meets the client's brief and budget;
- Leading the team, offering direction and support, ensuring the agency have the correct level of skills to grow the accounts
- Continuing to monitor and review the processes and skills of the team ensuring the clients receive the best in class service
- Presenting, alongside agency colleagues the activation ideas and budget to the client;
- Working with the development, creative and research staff, and assisting with the formulation of marketing strategies;
- Liaising with, and acting as the link between, the client and the agency by maintaining regular contact with both, ensuring that communication flows effectively;
- Negotiating with clients and agency staff about the details of activation;
- Presenting creative work to clients for approval or modification;
- Handling budgets, managing campaign costs and invoicing clients;
- Writing and presenting client and campaign reports;
- Monitoring the effectiveness of campaigns;
- Undertaking administration tasks;
- Arranging and attending meetings;
- Seeking and performing 'pitches', along with other agency staff, to win new business for the agency.
- Explore creative ideas to present to client
- Manage brainstorming sessions with agency colleagues
- Follow up internally to attend to client requests on a timely manner
- Manage different categories at the same time
- Status reports, contact reports and other meeting related documentations management with the team
- Manage specific tasks and start to take ownership of small projects from initial briefing to completion under close supervision to account manager or alone, with regular updates
- Learn way around agency and start to understand role of each department, build internal relationships and maintain day to day contacts
- Generate invoices, raise purchase orders, estimate requests, print quotes and costs for clients.

Requirements

- 5+ years experience in local and regional GCC on-ground activations, events planning and BTL activities
- Bachelor of Business Administration, Management, Marketing, IMC or relevant
- Experience in strategic planning
- Sales and target driven
- Hardworker, dedicated, flexible for long working hours

About the Company

Seaharvest is an innovative investment Group; in which owns and invest in a diversified portfolio of companies. We combine the expertise of our team across finance, Marketing and operations; to maximize the benefits of all Stakeholders of the company.

We are celebrating our 15 years anniversary success during 2014.

Seaharvest Group owns and invest in 22 companies globally with a diversified portfolio which ensures sustainable growth and profits to the stakeholders.