General Manager - Advertising Agency

Kingston Stanley

Abu Dhabi, UAE

Ref: MP173-191

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Our client, a leading multinational ad agency is recruiting for a General Manager to run its Abu Dhabi office of 20 staffs.

Job Description
- Lead Agency pitches to prospective clients and grow agency top line revenue.
- Create strategic proposals to promote services.
- Front end and manage the client relationship.
- Scan for marketing opportunity and participate in tenders to attract high value agency projects.
- Manage every communication element of advertising and marketing including creative, copy, layouts and production.
- Manage service providers, suppliers and onsite requirements.
- Meticulously run day to day operations of a full service Integrated Ad Agency, supervise the teams output and troubleshoot problems and issues.
- Manage the Finance Strategy by coordinating overall budget process, annual budget plan and taking responsibility for achieving the agreed profitability and monthly targets.
- Manage the Marketing Strategy by image building, corporate communications, and brand projection to rapidly grow company's exposure to both corporate and government sector.
- Manage the HR & Admin Strategy by training and developing the team to learn and adapt to the latest advertising trends, improving quality of proposals and evaluate employees work performance.

Requirements

- The candidate should have a minimum of 10 years within a multinational advertising agency.
- Ability to manage a team to hit aggressive deadlines with high quality work.
- Exceptional oral, written communication skills, excellent presentation and facilitation skills.
- Familiar in Microsoft office applications and excellence in Microsoft excel.
- Arabic language an advantage.

About the Company

Kingston Stanley is the leading specialist marketing recruitment agency in the Middle East, working exclusively with clients and candidates across the full spectrum of the marketing sector since early 2011. We will help you find, screen and select the ideal candidate for your marketing jobs, and we have the largest, most current and qualified network of suitable candidates, ready to start immediately. Whether you have a role that urgently needs to be filled, or a killer portfolio, you’ll find what you’re looking for here. Strong ethics, honest hard work, integrity and marketing recruitment are the four pillars of our business and brand.

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