Brand Director

TBWA; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading creative agency in London seeks an experienced project manager to oversee operations and client relationships. The ideal candidate has over 7 years of experience in managing teams and projects, with strong financial planning skills and a background in digital and content production. This role requires excellent communication and multi-tasking abilities to succeed in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Sound knowledge of print, digital, and content production processes.
• Sound financial planning and budget management experience.
• Experience working in the tourism, travel, luxury, or automotive industry preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee project risk management during execution and delivery phases.
• Manage profitability of project costs against resource utilization.
• Pro-active client development and relationship management.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Relationship management

Presentation skills

Multi-tasking

Education

7+ years of relevant experience

Leadership experience

Job description

RESPONSIBILITIES

ADMINISTRATIVE / OPERATIONAL

• Risk management of projects in execution and delivery phases
• Anticipate potential issues and proactive in finding effective solutions, mitigations, or contingencies.
• Strong organisational skills and oversight of project and asset management, and finance tracking.

BUSINESS ACUMEN

• Manage profitability of project costs against resource utilisation, able to provide solutions when required.
• Responsible for P & L - sustaining account growth, diversification and profitability
• Constantly and creatively looking for opportunities to grow the business
• Aware of how to be effective in SOWs, including for social and digital projects.

CLIENT MANAGEMENT

• Pro-active client development - drive business conversations to expand business/relationships and anticipate
• potential strategic & business issues and challenges
• Establish strong partnership connections with mid to senior clients as the go to senior person for solutions and
• platform for transparency in raising off record ad-hoc issues.

STRATEGY

• Gatekeeper for strategic input, ensuring work and creative briefs align with client objectives
• Foresee and solve strategic problems and challenges for clients
• Act as an escalation point for the team in resolving issues. Supports the team in confidently navigating through
• problems.
• In-depth understanding of industry trends and their impact on client and company’s businesses
• In-depth understanding of social / digital trends and best practices; know what works, how to incorporate these into projects and how to evaluate their effectiveness.

CREATIVE

• Partner to the creative team, collaborate confidently, responsible for pushing and selling the best creative solution
• and quality of work to solve the clients business problem
• Cognisant of recent award winning works/industry best practices especially relevant to the client industry

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT

• Lead effective cross functional interaction and create a conducive environment / culture for the team and client
• Supervise, train, and manage performance of team members
• Provide clear and nurturing feedback to reporting team.

LEADERSHIP

• Positive influencing skills, building up your own brand.
• Demonstrate ability for creative problem solving in how they approach every task – whether that’s identifying a way to improve the internal process, or co-creating an inspiring way to sell in the work.

KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED

• At least 7 years relevant experience with a sound knowledge of print, digital and content production processes
• Leadership experience in managing an account servicing team
• Sound financial planning and budget management experience

SKILLS REQUIRED

• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent relationship management and presentation
• The ability to multi-task and provide holistic leadership support across a range of clients

ATTRIBUTES

• Team player with a ‘hands-on’ approach
• Responsible, with a ‘Can do’, willing and positive attitude to be a support system for our clients
• Ability to work under tight deadlines with multiple projects
• An ability to prioritise workload as well as an ability to pre-empt, identify and respond to problems
• Reliability, i.e. resilience, confidence, tenacity and maturity
• Personal, enthusiastic and committed – capable of gaining trust and respect from colleagues
• Experience working across the tourism, travel, luxury and/or automotive industry, an advantage