Account Director (4 Months Contract)

Singapore, Singapore

Job Description


Company Description

Digitas is a highly-caffeinated playground where brilliant minds come together to make bold, award-winning marketing. We use data-driven insights to guide our work, but we also believe in a healthy dose of spirited storytelling as we strive to transform the marketing landscape.



You will lead the work on some of the most popular consumer brands in the world, impacting the daily lives of nearly 2 billion people in the fastest growing region in the world. You will work for clients who not only care about success in the marketplace, but are passionate about the role of brands in helping bring about social change. The Account Director is responsible for seamless delivery on a client account including creation and communication of effective brand strategies, account staffing and oversight of all client relations and presentations; while providing active support and oversight to an Account Service team.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manages a number of key client relationships
  • Acts as the first point of contact for client questions and requests
  • Talks to other departments in the organisation in order to facilitate client requests
  • Builds and maintains relationships with clients often through regular face to face contact and meetings
  • Partners with Planners to develop and implement highly interactive strategic responses for brand\xe2\x80\x99s business and communications needs
  • Problem solves on high level account and production issues and knows when to involve their supervisor
  • Generate accurate reports on the status of existing accounts and new business
  • Leads presentations with clients
  • Manages a budget and achieve targets
  • Always on a look out for opportunities to cross-sell within the Groupe
  • Manages and facilitates new business pitches when requested by Managing Director
  • Committed to constantly improving our work, and how we work
  • Maintains a sense of discretion and professionalism, representing the Groupe
Qualifications

The ideal candidate for this role should have
  • Minimum 10 years of account experience in a creative/digital advertising agency
  • Good understanding of digital workstreams, in particular CRM
  • Capable of writing a thoughtful interactive communication strategy presentations to achieve a client\xe2\x80\x99s business outcomes
  • Lives the interactive ecosystem (truly born of Digital), understands how social, data, CRM, search, etc all co-exist
  • Able to effectively interpret and lead regarding performance reporting
  • Rallies behind interactive briefs and pushes clients and creatives to explore new interactive projects
  • Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines in a fast-paced creative environment
  • Effective negotiation and problem-solving skills
  • Strong financial understanding of budgeting, estimating and agency profitability
  • A track record of gaining trust and respect by consistently demonstrating sound critical thinking skills and maintaining composure in stressful situations
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with all levels of employees
  • Highly organized with a keen sense of attention to detail
  • Exceptional initiative and follow through skills
If you are a self-motivated data scientist with a strong passion for using data to solve complex business problems, we would love to hear from you!

Additional Information

Publicis Groupe is the third largest communications group in the world, a leader in marketing, communication and digital business transformation. As a platform at the intersection of marketing and digital business transformation, driven through the alchemy of creativity and technology, Publicis Groupe is built on The Power of One.

Publicis Groupe offers its clients seamless access to the expertise of its 80,000 talents across four Solution hubs: creative with Publicis Communications (Publicis Worldwide, Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett, BBH, Marcel, Fallon, MSL, Prodigious), media services with Publicis Media (Starcom, Zenith, Spark Foundry, Blue 449, Performics, Digitas), digital business transformation with Publicis.Sapient and health & wellness communications with Publicis Health. Publicis Groupe\xe2\x80\x99s agencies are present in over 100 countries around the world.

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD1359353
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Singapore, Singapore
  • Education
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