Job description

Job purpose

To effectively and efficiently service clients, ensuring consistent strategic direction, the achievement of financial targets and complete client satisfaction.

Key result areas

• Meet existing and new business financial target
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients
• Effective and efficient project management of tasks
• Adherence to internal systems and contributing to team effectiveness
• Contribution to company vision

Description of tasks (not exhaustive)

• Forms strong relationships with clients, influencing and facilitating the delivery of work that meets their needs
• Receive and develop client briefs
• Facilitates the understanding of briefs by creatives
• Manages projects by applying good organisation, planning and follow-up
• Acquires new business to meet financial targets
• Sells creative work to clients to meet financial targets
• Follows up on internal support systems to ensure high level of service delivery
• Adheres to internal processes and procedures
• Undertakes any other duties which may reasonably be required from time to time
• Meets deadlines related to all areas of work
• Briefs the creative team accurately and comprehensively, correctly interpreting the client’s needs first time
• Sells creative, creating a smooth work-flow from studio to client from supplier to partners and ambassador for the agency
• Demonstrates ‘living the client’s brands’ by working with passion and dedication on the brands dealt with
• Understands the complete brand strategy of the client and ensures that marketing and communications resolve around this positioning and strategy
• Demonstrates creativity in dealing with the client and in interaction with the creative team
• Analyses agency performance against client investment to the year plan
• Undertakes administrative activities to ensure on-time and accurate billing
• Holding regular weekly status meetings with client
• Issuing contact reports post all client interactions
• Keeping up-to-date with relevant trends, market and industry, and client relevant (sector and competitor) developments and research

Company Description

Boomtown is a strategic brand agency that believes in the creative possibility of every situation – seeing what could be rather than what is. We have launched a new vision: To enable the greatest creative environment for possibility to be realized.
We use our collective creativity to see possibility and create solutions for every brand we touch. We connect with consumers through culturally relevant insights, engaging head and heart through original brand-led creativity, ensuring best value spend through effective market strategy and mechanics to drive sales.

Requirements

• Relevant degree and at least five years’ industry experience is essential
• Public/Parastatal sector and corporate brand and marketing communications experience
• Knowledge of and exposure to all media platforms and production and printing outputs
• Excellent project management ability, and agency process and systems knowledge
• Outstanding organisational capability, operational skills and attention to detail
• Superb communication and interpersonal skills
• Business-minded and great entrepreneurial talent
• Patient and level-headed, but full of energy and the ability to thrive under pressure

Personal attributes

• Work under pressure
• Self-driven
• Proactive
• Excellent time management and efficiency
• Team player
• Energetic, motivated and task-orientated
• Ability to interpret briefs and work independently within the parameters thereof

Advantageous

• An advertising qualification or marketing degree plus relevant brand industry experience is essential
• Strong administrative discipline with an eye for detail.
• Savvy business-minded individuals with outstanding project management, presentation and personal skills
• Inspired and inspirational individuals with a passion for marketing solutions who thrive on growing brands and building client relationships
• Prior knowledge with CHASE Software – Advertising Management System
• Prior knowledge with Parastatal clients.

Additional infoOnly shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

If no response is received within two weeks of application you are unsuccessful and we ask for your application to future vacancies.

“Boomtown is an Affirmative Action Employer and as such, preference will be given to candidates who will add to the diversity of our organisation/agency.”

Posted on 16 Nov 09:10