Account Executive

VML South Africa; Singapore; On-site; SGD 48,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Job summary

VML, a WPP agency, is hiring a full-time Account Manager in Singapore. The role focuses on day-to-day account management, client relationships, and translating client needs into actionable deliverables.

You’ll work with strategy,creative, and project teams, ensuring scope, timelines, and budgets are managed effectively.

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year of client contact experience in a creative agency, communications, or customer service environment.
• Outstanding ability to lead, convince, and inspire in a client-service environment; superior listening, interviewing, meeting facilitation, presentation, and writing skills.
• Must be proactive, a self-starter and an excellent communicator both verbal and written.

Responsibilities

• Supports all aspects of day-to-day account management including internal documents associated with each account.
• Establish day to day working relationships with clients across portfolio to ensure that we can continue to grow our business and deliver.
• Obtain key client information and transfer them accurately to project teams. Work closely with project teams to ensure effective scoping of work.
• Review team deliverables and provide oversight. Anticipate, proactively address and advise management on potential client or revenue issues.
• Works with Account Managers/Account Directors to develop and implement plans, build relationship and lead client thinking to ensure work efficiency and effectiveness
• Support the team to translate the client’s vision and needs into business requirements, coordinate with strategy, creative & project teams on required deliverables, and manage client expectations
• Provides excellent written and verbal business-communication skills
• Generating revenue & profit targets as defined for accounts
• Ensure executional excellence within timeline and manage invoicing according to the contractual terms
• Manage multicultural projects, coordinate teams and clients; spot risks and issues, support resourcing, control the schedule and budget
• Obtain key client information and transfer accurately to ensure effective scoping of work
• Build financial management skills, including preparation of billing and monthly projections for review
• Be a role model for stewardship between the client and the agency by balancing the account’s needs while avoiding unnecessary expenditures and negotiating required costs.

Skills

Client communication

Leadership

Presentation skills

Proactive

Excellent written and verbal skills

Team collaboration

Tools

Word

Excel

Outlook

PowerPoint

Job description

Who We Are

VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies. VML’s global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

What you’ll do:

• Supports all aspects of day-to-day account management including internal documents associated with each account
• Establish day to day working relationships with clients across portfolio to ensure that we can continue to grow our business and deliver
• Obtain key client information and transfer them accurately to project teams. Work closely with project teams to ensure effective scoping of work.
• Review team deliverables and provide oversight. Anticipate, proactively address and advise management on potential client or revenue issues.
• Works with Account Managers/Account Directors to develop and implement plans, build relationship and lead client thinking to ensure work efficiency and effectiveness
• Support the team to translate the client’s vision and needs into business requirements, coordinate with strategy, creative & project teams on required deliverables, and manage client expectations
• Provides excellent written and verbal business-communication skills
• Generating revenue & profit targets as defined for accounts
• Ensure executional excellence within timeline and manage invoicing according to the contractual terms
• Manage multicultural projects, coordinate teams and clients; spot risks and issues, support resourcing, control the schedule and budget
• Obtain key client information and transfer accurately to ensure effective scoping of work
• Build financial management skills, including preparation of billing and monthly projections for review
• Be a role model for stewardship between the client and the agency by balancing the account’s needs while avoiding unnecessary expenditures and negotiating required costs.

What you’ll need:

• Minimum 1 year of client contact experience in a creative agency, communications, or customer service environment; demonstrated impact on the communication and online strategy for major clients.
• MNC/Agency experience would be advantageous
• Outstanding ability to lead, convince, and inspire in a client-service environment; superior listening, interviewing, meeting facilitation, presentation, and writing skills.
• Must be proactive, a self-starter and an excellent communicator both verbal and written.
• Ability to create coherent and persuasive presentations with proficiency in Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.
• Possesses superior communication skills, both internal and client facing.

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office an average of four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

VML is a WPP agency (NYSE: WPP). For more information, please visit www.vml.com, and follow along on Instagram, LinkedIn, and X.

WPP (VML) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics.

We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.