Job description

Job Role: Account Director 

Job Location: Riyadh  , Saudi Arabia  

Job Description 

We are looking for a quality-driven, multi-account juggling account director to join our advertising agency. The responsibilities include building and nurturing healthy client relationships, developing new marketing opportunities, briefing creative teams, allocating and managing budgets, and identifying new areas of growth.

Scopes:
• Driving growth: Ensuring existing business & client retention and attracting new clients
• Team management: Leading team empowerment and technical deliverables
• Process mapping and implementation for:
- Briefing procedure across client, internal team, and any external party.
- Buying and trading exercises specifically for ground jobs and production jobs along with suppliers' assessment
- SM management to avoid wrong content publishing, wrong content creation & to avoid gaps/delays
• Client relationship management: Attending meetings (face to face and remote), weekly & twice a week. Account review meeting every quarter is must.
• Risk assessment & management for ground activities

Key Responsibilities:
• Lead clients' campaign advertising strategies
• Manage the creative teams and briefing designers and copywriters on exact deliverables
• Develop and nurture client relationships
• Monitor the success of client campaigns
• Keep projects on time and within budget, report when off-track and take corrective action
• Conduct team performance evaluations and giving feedback to HR and upper management
• Identify new opportunities for business growth (within current or new projects)
• Demonstrate strong collaboration skills with internal teams using Agency resources to effectively and seamlessly support client’s business
• Conduct team training and talent development through on job training and coaching
• Develop your understanding of the market dynamics through consistent training and research
Specific day to day account management:
          1- Social Media Management: briefing, supervision & quality assurance across:
               a- Content Calendar Creation
               b- Content publishing & moderation
               c- Social Paid Media
               d- Reporting & Analytics
               e- Crisis Management

        2- Creative Communication Services: briefing, supervision, quality assurance across: 

             a- Brand & Tactical campaigns/jobs 

             b- Branding activities 

       3- Ground Services & Activities: 

            a- Small to medium size event organizing 

            b- Sampling & experiential marketing activities 

            c- Tactical branding & production jobs 

Qualifications 

•  BA Marketing & Advertising or any similar field
•  9+ years of experience as Account manager, director.  
•  Excellent knowledge of MS. Office (Excel, Word, ppt, and visio) 
•  Knowledge of market research techniques 
•  Exceptional interpersonal skills 
•  Excellent organizational, negotiation, and leadership skills 
•  Outstanding critical thinking and problem-solving skills 
•  Excellent command of English and Arabic 

Technical Competencies: 

• T1-Client retention & relationship management 
• T2-Campaign management 
• T3-Budget Monitoring and Billing 
• T4-Team Leadership