Account Executive at Premier Recruitment Group

To support the client by ensuring client brand communications activities are executed in a focused manner to ensure more brand visibility and value addition to the brand.

Responsibilities

Client service

• Active as the central link between the agency and client by maintaining regular contact with both and ensuring that communication flows effectively.
• Meeting and liaising with clients to discuss and identify their advertising requirements
• Keep abreast with competitive/market knowledge, and use this information to advice clients appropriately.
• Following up with creative/production/media teams to ensure brief deadlines are met and updating of status sheets on a weekly basis.
• Undertaking routing task such as:
  • Generating contact reports
  • Writing well thought-out and clear briefs to capture client requirements
  • Filing
  • Preparation of contact / status reports
• Coordinating and preparation of meetings and presentations
• Begins to build relationships with clients by demonstrating a clear understanding their business and needs.

Self-Management

• Achieves set business targets
• Completing timesheets diligently
• Financial Management
• Ensure agency financial process is followed; billing, cost estimates, LPO’s timesheets are raised, signed off in a timely manner.

 New Business

• Identify incremental business opportunities on current client accounts and share information with appropriate line manager
• Support team members in the development of programmes and new business pitches, for new and existing clients, and assigned
• Continuously look out for new business opportunities for the agency

 Self-Development

• Building a strong network of industry contacts through business association
• Pursue career development opportunities related to his/her own career advancement
• Participating in company sanctioned training programs

 Brand stewardship

• Project positive image of the agency at all times.

Qualifications

• A good understanding and awareness of advertising industry business.
• Ability to start see through and complete assigned projects
• Possess self-confidence
• Ability to cope with pressure and tight work deadlines
• Good team working skills
• Entry to this level is usually between two and four years’ agency experience or its equivalent
• Bachelor’s degree with preference in Marketing and Communications fields