Account Executive | PR | Ogilvy Africa

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & ACCOUNTABILITIES

Knowledge Areas:

• Collaborating with the AM in preparation of recommendations, marketing strategies and actions for the client
• Assist the AM to keep the brand book up to date with appropriate information/documents
• Assists to sourcing of all brand, competitor and consumer information
• Reviewing, analysing material relative to clients need - media results, research data etc
• Supports AM in the control of the advertising process: filing, client and internal meetings, follow up on deadlines, timing
• Handles assigned work requests in efficient, timely manner.
• Assist in monitoring budget, research and similar items as assigned.
• Effective organisation of meetings, diaries, presentation materials and refreshments.
• Listen carefully to Team and Client requests, report them accurately and action them expediently.

Relationships Management:

• Ensuring effective communication with all team members.
• Demonstrating an ability to effectively manage upwards.
• Demonstrates strong listening skills and is able to translate the information from Account teams in to work to be done

Client Management:

• Receives timely client approval of agency output for assigned work
• Client recognises initiative, personal and work style.

Commercial Management

• Monitoring the estimates and billing process on behalf of the team
• Liaise with accounts department for POs and job orders
• Assists to follow up with Traffic for cost estimates

Creative Management:

• Is getting familiar with, and supports achievement of, the company's vision and exemplifies the company's values.
• Recognizes client needs and relates the same to work plans.
• Monitor assigned projects so that they within the agreed due dates.
• Escalates challenges to team members in early enough to avert any issues

JOB PURPOSE - SUMMARY

Account Executive responsible for directing and coordinating assigned projects. In this role, the AE is responsible for sound, proper and timely execution of all assigned work.

PROFESSION, TECHNICAL SKILL AND PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Required Experience:

• Experience working in a busy office environment, preferably within the marketing/ Communications industry.
• Experience of working across several projects simultaneously, juggling the day-to­ day work in order to meet client deadlines.
• Knowledge of Microsoft office, Word, Excel, PPT, Email
• 3 months - 1 year of relevant experience

Desired Experience:

• Experience of presenting and influencing clients
• Mentoring and coaching others in the team.

Required Behaviours:

• Passion for Advertising
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal
• Fastidious organisational skills with a high attention to details
• Self -starter and able to self-motivate
• Good team player
• Clear, logical and concise
• Excellent E-Mail etiquette
• Good presenting skills and techniques
• Sense of humour

Required Attributes:

• Team player, outgoing and dependable.
• You need to be analytical, creative and have a genuine interest in consumers and brands.

BELIEFS AT OGILVY

• People need regular OS upgrades: Even the best OS will be obsolete tomorrow unless its constantly upgrades. The same is true for people.
• We need more cows than milkmen: We are a culture of practitioners, not managers. We contribute before we comment.
• Creative about creativity: Creativity is, and will always be, our differentiator. Creativity now includes holy trinity of Data -Content -Tech
• Diversity is a competitive advantage: New profiles, new skills, new styles of leadership make us a stronger company.
• Collaborative advantage > Competitive advantage: Find partners who are on top of their game at the skillset we need. It’s the only way to scale at the speed without pretending to have all the answers.
• Team Individual: You get a lot more done when everyone stops worrying about who gets credit at the end. Teams Succeed, and individuals fail.
• Fail often, fail fast: We see intrapreneurs in all our people and encourage a culture of pilots. Test, succeed, and scale; or fail-fast learn, learn from the failure and start something new.

OGILVY AFRICA- COMPANY OVERVIEW

Ogilvy Africa is the largest network agency on the continent catering to 40 countries with a team of ~900 people across Central, East and West Africa. Headquartered in Nairobi - Kenya, Ogilvy Africa manages a portfolio of over 100 brands for clients such as AB lnbev, Airtel, Africa CDC, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Distell, Equity Bank, Exxon Mobil, Kenya Airways, Mondelez, NCBA, Nestle, Philips, PWC, SAB Miller, Sanlam, Total, UNICEF, Unilever and WWF amongst others. We offer services across the full spectrum of marketing domains including advertising (on and offline), Customer Engagement & Commerce, Digital Transformation, Shopper Marketing, Media, PR & Influence; all under one unified setup. We've also created proprietary marketing products in areas such as real-time marketing, social intelligence, virtual experiences, influencer management, e-commerce enablement and content hubs. Our unique operating model, One Ogilvy, allows clients and brands to cut the complexity of agency structures and create seamless omni-channel experiences for their consumers, across touchpoints. Fuelled by the holy trinity of content, data and technology; Ogilvy Africa strives to be the best-practice agency model, for Developing & Emerging markets. In our 20+ years in Africa, we have won the highest number of regional and global awards for the region including Cannes Lions, Clio awards, Dubai Lynx Festival, SABRE Awards (Global and Africa); to name a few. Ogilvy is a leading global creative network of WPP. Launched by David Ogilvy over 70 years ago, it's referred-to as the Agency of Giants, by several industry experts.