Account Executive / Account Manager – Port Elizabeth

SUMMARY:
Our client in the Advertising and Marketing Industry based in Port Elizabeth currently looking to employ an Account Executive / Account Manager.

POSITION INFO:
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.

• 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.