Accounts Manager - Media & Events

Overview

Accounts Manager - Media & Events

Opportunity #361

The Client: A live communications agency, that provides fully integrated services enabling excellence in Advertising, Events, Public Relations, and digital and social media. They work on amazing campaigns work with high-profile government and private sector corporations globally.

• Ultimately responsible to ensure all client solutions are delivered on brand (on time, on budget, on the solution, and on experience), he /she is responsible to manage the account and account spending to ensure profitability is at most.
• Act as senior client, project, and team leader
• Act as a senior point of contact for key clients, oversee assigned team's management of work during the project from inception to production and execution process.
• Anticipate client needs and proactively offer solutions and experiential opportunities for the brand.
• Act as a business head means a full understanding of the client and project.
• Responsible for the financial performance and profitability of the brand/project.
• Attend and supervise critical internal/external meetings as needed.
• Ensure timely and quality delivery of all contracted event deliverables.
• Supervise the development of post-event recaps/reports for clients.
• Lead and manage the RFP brainstorms, and successful delivery (don’t wait for the departments to give you the work, you need to supervise them).
• Responsible for effectively translating, communicating, and prioritizing client requirements to internal teams.
• Manage existing clients/brands and overseeing their day-to-day operations or project and ensuring their profitability.
• Ensure all projects are delivered on time, to a high standard, and in line with the brief, and beyond
• Develop the account to increase profitability and generate new business
• Producing proposals/presentations to land new accounts
• Working closely with other business units to expand cross-selling opportunities
• Generating ideas for new revenue generation within large clients/brands base
• Responsible to have all department signatures on all production materials to go for production.

• Has a minimum of 5 years of experience working with an Events company as an Account Manager.
• Fluent in English and preferably Arabic.