Job Description

Eastern Cape, Port Elizabeth
Monthly Cost To Company (Market related)
Our client in the Advertising and Marketing Industry based in Port Elizabeth currently looking to employ an Account Executive / Account Manager.
Requirements:

• Candidate must have experience in an advertising agency, with a minimum of 3+ years of experience in advertising or marketing.
• Account executive or account manager experience.
• Travel as / when required.
• Must have own car and driver's license.

Responsibilities and expectations but not limited to:

• Build and maintain strong client-centric relationships (communication; hosting; presenting; managing) with clients and suppliers alike.
• Ensure strong commercial and business acumen led conversations with clients to ensure you understand your clients business; business goals; marketing objectives; and requirements.
• Take accurate briefs and convey them correctly to the agency, and ensure that the agency output is aligned to the client's ask - according to your brief.
• Pursuing and converting business opportunities within existing business.
• Quoting; invoicing and financial tracking in accordance with our Ts and Cs; including timely management of supplier payments in accordance with agreed Ts and Cs to ensure delivery for client jobs.
• Monitor and drive efficiency, ensuring accurate and timely financial tracking and management of the resources you plan in, against the time quoted to client, ensuring the job is profitable.
• Resourcefulness - i.e. solution-orientated and problem-solving mindset in all you do, striving to bring proposed solutions to conversations, not just problems.
• Maintain a high quality standard of excellence in all you do, as well as ensuring the output from the agency is of an equally high standard for client delivery and approval.
• Lead by example and strive to get involved in social activities and get to know the wider community within the agency.
• Where you oversee any employees, it is your responsibility to ensure that they are achieving the same results throughout.

If you do not hear from us within two weeks of applying, you may assume that your application was unsuccessful.