Group Account Director

Publicis Groupe Africa Pty Ltd; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 800 000 - 1 000 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading marketing communications agency is seeking an experienced Group Account Director in Johannesburg. The successful candidate will manage client campaigns end-to-end, ensuring timely execution and financial oversight. Requirements include a marketing qualification and at least 6 years of experience in account management, preferably in the automotive sector. The role emphasizes problem-solving, strong administrative skills, and proactive communication within teams.

Qualifications

• 6+ years' experience in Account Management.
• Experience in the automotive industry is preferred.
• Financial and budget management experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Implement and manage the creation and roll-out of marketing communication.
• Ensure delivery of campaigns against agreed timelines.
• Manage project timelines to ensure on-time delivery.

Skills

Problem-solving

Attention to detail

Project management

Administrative skills

Communication skills

Education

Marketing qualification

Tools

Chase

Job description

Overview

We're looking for an experienced and passionate Group Account Director to join our team.

The Group Account Director plays an essential role in servicing the Client by ensuring timely and accurate execution of briefs, project management of all jobs, and management and tracking of all finances (processing CE's, billing PO's, weekly reporting).

Attention to detail and strong administrative skills are critical success factors and requirements for this role.

The successful candidate must demonstrate the ability to problem-solve, raise escalation to the Client Service Director as needed, and maintain control of client campaign roll-outs.

Responsibilities

To implement and manage as tasked the successful creation, development and roll out of Client marketing communication in an integrated campaign capacity as well as manage all required administrative tasks.

Champion

• Ensure delivery of campaigns against agreed timelines and milestones of campaign development and execution
• Execute integrated campaigns ensuring that our campaigns work across ATL, Digital and BTL.
• Escalate issues to the Client Service Director as needed, to prevent campaign milestones being missed or budget being negatively impacted
• Actively pursue opportunities to learn and grow within the portfolio
• Living shared values and core behaviours of Studio one and Toyota
• Maintain excellent intercompany and interdepartmental communication and knowledge transfer

Growth and Profitability

Assist the team in identifying and maintaining opportunities for optimization and harmonization / integration of the various departments and Publicis Communications agencies

Maintain efficiencies, economies of scale & resource optimization, ensuring jobs are delivered according to the allocated budget

Talent

Act as a role model for Account Management members

Support knowledge transfer, knowledge sharing and upskilling through relevant & appropriate learning / teaching channels

Strive to learn and grow, pro-actively seek opportunities and become involved in projects outside of allocated tasks

Operational Excellence

• Implement, monitor, and manage the workflow process as tasked, escalating to the Client Partner where necessary
• Proactive management of all project timelines, always ensuring on time and in full delivery of projects
• Monitor standards by checking all work is on the brief and to the desired quality of level before sending it to client
• Assist to optimize internal resource allocation and utilization
• Solid writing, communication and presenting skills in English (a good command of the English language)
• Weekly management, updating and tracking of finances (CE's, PO's, Billings) and reporting to ensure cashflow management

Experience on Chase is preferred

Be a strategic partner to your clients, enabling you to guide and drive better work, better business conversations and build business.

Financial experience is preferred

• Have tough and honest conversations with your client to enable your team to deliver excellence and you create trust through positive outcomes.
• Maintain the integrity of the creative strategy and work throughout the campaign
• Exceptional management of client expectations
• Proactive & Solution driven.

Qualifications

Marketing qualification essential

6+ years' experience in Account Management

Experience in the automotive industry

You must have experience running jobs, projects and campaigns from start to finish with little senior support

Experience on Chase is preferred

Financial & budget management experience is preferred

Manage up – ensure your seniors are abreast of all activity on the account and empower them to support you through open lines of communication

Additional Information

Publicis Group is proud to be an Equal opportunity employer and prohibits any forms of Discrimination or Harassment.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees in line with our Employment Equity plan.

All appointments will be based on Qualifications, experience and best fit but preference will be given to all affirmation action candidates or designated groups.

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