Senior Account Manager

SALT; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 400,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

A boutique creative agency in Cape Town seeks a Senior Account Manager to lead a key financial services client. This role emphasizes strategic oversight, team leadership, and seamless project execution, ideally suited for someone passionate about sustainability and creative impact.

Benefits

Collaborative team environment

Opportunities for strategic growth

Hybrid work model after 6 months

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in account management, preferably in an advertising agency.
• Experience with financial services clients is advantageous.
• Strong leadership and project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary point of contact for the client, managing relationships.
• Oversee execution of all account management aspects.
• Lead an internal design team to deliver creative solutions.

Skills

Business Development

Sales Experience

Account Management

Relationship Management

Negotiation

Tools

Salesforce

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Join a boutique creative agency in Cape Town thats been building purposedriven brands for over 15 years. Known for its commitment to sustainability strategic thinking and impactful design this team helps clients solve complex challenges through innovative longlasting ideas. Its a closeknit valuesled environment where creativity and meaning go hand in handand where your work truly makes a difference.

Duties & Responsibilities

Senior Account Manager

Creative Advertising Agency (Cape Town South Africa)

Location : Cape Town (Inoffice for 6 months then hybrid)

Experience : Minimum 5 years

About Us

We grow brands that matter. For 15 years Derrick has been creating sustainable impactful and trusted brands that stand the test of time. As South Africas first agency founded on the principles of the Triple Bottom Line weve been committed to creating enduring impact since the very start.

Our strengths lie in crafting strategic creative solutions to complex challenges. We uncover deep insights to develop innovative concepts with lasting potential ensuring our ideas are scalable flexible and sustainable. From mass versioning creative concepts to finding the perfect solution for a unique problem we approach each project with a commitment to impactful results.

The Role

Were looking for an experienced Senior Account Manager to take the lead on a key financial services client. This role requires a strategic thinker with strong leadership skills excellent project management abilities and a deep understanding of agency processes.

You will be responsible for managing all aspects of account management ensuring seamless execution of campaigns and leading an internal design team to deliver highquality creative solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Client Relationship Management : Act as the primary point of contact for the client building and maintaining strong relationships.
• Project & Workflow Management : Oversee endtoend below the line project execution ensuring deadlines budgets and deliverables are met.
• Team Leadership : Manage and guide an internal design team ensuring collaboration and efficiency.
• Strategic Oversight : Work closely with creative strategy and media teams to align client objectives with compelling campaigns.
• Workflow & Process Management : Utilise workflow management software to track projects optimise resources and maintain efficiency.
• Multitasking & Prioritisation : Juggle multiple projects proactively problemsolve and ensure seamless execution.

What Were Looking For

• Minimum 5 years of experience in account management preferably within an advertising or creative agency.
• Experience working with financial services clients (advantageous).
• Experience working on below the line campaigns
• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Excellent project and workflow management skills with experience using workflow management tools .
• Exceptional multitasking and prioritisation abilities.
• A passion for sustainability social responsibility and purposedriven work.

Why Join Us

• Work with a boutique agency that values creativity sustainability and meaningful impact.
• Opportunity to lead a key client account and drive strategic growth.
• Collaborative tightknit team environment where your voice matters.
• Hybrid work model after 6 months inoffice.

If youre an experienced proactive and strategic account manager looking for a role where you can make an impact wed love to hear from you! Please send your CV to

Salt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Required Experience :

Manager

Key Skills

Business Development,Sales Experience,OEM,Account Management,Product Demos,Microsoft Powerpoint,Salesforce,Relationship Management,Sales Management,Customer relationship management,Enterprise Sales,negotiation

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

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