Ithemba Recruitment

Account Director (MENA)

Ithemba Recruitment  •  Cape Town, ZA (Onsite)  •  2 months ago
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Job Description

Duties and responsibilities

  • Drive and champion the MENA Clients strategic goals, living shared values and core behaviours.
  • Work closely with the Consultants, to effectively deliver on client proposals, solutions and roadmaps to achieve the objectives encouraging client growth and new opportunities.
  • Collaborating with Solutions Leads and Project Managers in scoping projects to deliver solutions efficiently and successfully.
  • Manages client briefs to ensure delivery of efficient and contractually agreed solutions.
  • Management of the client relationship, both internally and externally - Is the first point of escalation to manage most requests or issues.
  • Drive and communicate client briefs and business strategy to internal departments in consultation with the Project Managers Consultants, Media Managers and other staff members working on the same accounts
  • Supporting the Digital Project Manager in the management of client expectations in terms of project delivery, particularly in terms of timelines, budgets, requirements and dependencies.
  • Financial management - ownership of client Invoicing & administration, particularly financial recons and addressing any budgetary issues.
  • Client Administration incl contact reports, status meeting minutes, managing Google drives, budget management recons, drafting IOs, SOW and proposals and inputting into pitches.
  • Quality assurance - weekly and monthly reporting, presentations, IOs, CEs.
  • Presents insightful client reports with learnings in Weekly and/or Monthly status calls or reviews with clients
  • Proactively research industry and in-market trends growing brand knowledge to increase strategic understanding of client brands, disseminating this information to the wider teams, internally and externally, to spark innovation and new projects.
  • Team management and growth of Account Managers and/or Project Management team allocated to client pods and not limited to KPI reviews, mentoring, assisting with performance management etc.
  • Effectively leads, trains & coaches any more junior members of the client management team, as well as monitoring their work and workload.

 Qualifications and experience:

  • Matric
  • Relevant Diploma/Degree
  • 3 to 5 years of Digital Marketing experience in a similar role within, Digital Media, Digital Technology, Client Service & Solutions Consulting, or a similar environment
  • Advanced knowledge of Digital Marketing/CRM/general digital business
  • A understanding of using and implementing one of the leading digital marketing solutions/tools - Google Marketing Platform
  • Experience with trends, issues and solutions in the area of Digital Marketing, Digital Advertising, Programmatic, DMP, DSP, SSP, Sales, Service and Customer Management
  • 3 to 5 years of account management experience in online and offline advertising (paid search, display, social, mobile, video, or affiliate), direct marketing, or e-commerce
  • 3 to 5 years experience media planning, MENA media landsacpe, and excel skills
  • Evidence of delivering results in sales and marketing across various countries / territories within a technical market
  • Excellent level of English - second language would be desirable
  • Ability to analyse data and provide real insight / ability to navigate and leverage Google Analytics
  • Strong leadership & mentoring capabilities with a natural ability to inspire





Ithemba Recruitment

About Ithemba Recruitment

Ithemba Recruitment is an organisation that specializes in the placement of quality candidates in various industries.

We at Ithemba recruitment are “specialist generalists” we have the understanding that the we are able to recruit for a wide range of positions in various job functions that clients may require because we prefer to be seen as specialists for our clients needs and culture rather than specialists in a specific sector.

We feel that any position can be qualified by the correct understanding of people rather than what field they work in. We feel that by communicating effectively with candidates and having respect for their needs, requirements and time – we are able to form relationships and properly understand our candidates and the culture that they would fit into so as to service our clients’ needs more effectively. You could possibly classify us as “Versatilist”.

Whether you are in need of a new member of staff or as we like to call it "a new family member"​ or if you are in search of a new opportunity our consultants are ready to take your call.

Industry
Consulting & Advisory
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Durban, ZA
Year Founded
Unknown
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