Senior Account Director

Whizz HR is looking for enthusiastic and passionate Account Director/ Client Servicing Director to work with leading digital media agencies in India. These agencies have won multiple awards and work with clients across the globe.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Our clients look up to us to impact their brands success in the market. They believe we are the innovators who bring together an effective solution to their brand journeys combining the best of all aspects of digital marketing. This position needs to be the person that inspires the brand to achieve greatness in what they do, bring together cutting edge industry first and industry defining work that is creative while being meaningful and effective. A solution finder, imaginative out of box thinker, peoples person, leader of teams, the one to look up to for the next big thing are words that should be used naturally for this person.

NOTE: The person needs to be a communication and marketing specialist, technology is not the core ask of this position, however, an understanding of the basics of technology will be helpful.

SUMMARY

The position leads, plans and manages the activity of a selection of accounts, and adds vision and momentum to the brands and agencys business. The position supports the client by mentoring a strong agency team; success on the account is seen through creating an environment for great work, being responsible for the profitable delivery of services, holding key client relationships and delivering the best creative work while being effective alongside the overall strategy of the client. This role sets an example to the whole team.

The position also spends a portion of his time working with cross function teams on new business acquisition. You would be a leader for the pitch process, driving the strategic and insights input and carrying it through the entire process.

KEY RESPONSIBILITY AREAS

Though there are detailed tasks mentioned in the list below, KRAs are broken into 5 groups.

1. Client Relationship
   • Nurture client relationship by being an effective communicator, proactive in understanding internal & external client needs, demonstrate forward thinking and consistently delivering assigned goals and objectives.
   • Own the client relationship; the proverbial buck stops here for agency and client management
   • Engage with senior client executives and managers to align key agency resources to meet (and build upon) client needs.

• Strong working knowledge of client business and communicating this to the team to achieve industry leading output

• Strategic Planning and Mentoring

• Provide agency and client deliverables including creative briefs, marketing and communication plans/calendars, brainstorming sessions, creative strategy sessions, POVs, competitive analyses, etc.
• Provide strategic leadership by keeping current on the industry, technology and new media trends affecting the clients business.

1. Team Managementand Mentoring

• Supervise team; demonstrate strong leadership, provide direction and perspective in development of quality solutions and strategic thinking
• Help manage finances including budget forecasting, estimating, and monitoring project budgets

• Project Management and Delivery
  • Demonstrate & adhere to project management discipline in projects delivery management, time plans, scoping, resource allocation.

• Provide agency and client deliverables including creative briefs, marketing and communication plans/calendars, brainstorming sessions, creative strategy sessions, POVs, competitive analyses, etc.
• Oversee development of project timelines through the servicing and project management teams

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

1. Dynamic leadership, management and team building skills with anability to lead cross-functional teams in developing superior customerexperiences and engagements across digital platforms
2. Well organized, meticulous in approach & ability to workefficiently with various functions of the agency, client and mediapartners.
3. Patience and grace.

6. Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.

7. Experience working with CXO level clients and across entire organizations.

8. Able to craft compelling strategic stories from a variety of qualitative and quantitative inputs.

9. Comfortable working with creative, account, media, and analytics teams to develop business impact for clients

Warm regards,

Sairose Mosani

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