OUR CLIENT DEALING WITH SOLUTIONS FOR CASH AND PAYMENT REQUIRES AN ACCOUNT MANAGER IN EASTERN CAPE

Requirements:

• Grade 12/ Matric
• 2 – 3 years’ Experience in Customer Service within the Service Industry
• Call Centre Experience (Advantage)
• Office Administration Experience
• Excellent Written and Verbal Communication Skills
• Great Negotiation Skills
• Analytical
• Computer Literate
• Time Management
• Valid Driver’s License
• Excellent Sale Skills

Applicants must reside in EASTERN CAPE or surrounding area.

Please take note: if you have not been contacted within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Visit our website to view all of our current vacancies: www.mprtc.co.za

Previously disadvantaged candidates will be given preference.

We have a very exciting opportunity on our books for a talented and inspiring creative director at a fabulous Through-the-Line agency in PE. It is important that the successful CD be both conceptual and technically skilled. We are looking for someone that will be able to inspire the team creatively while being able to lead effectively. Someone who will give guidance and valuable contributions to the projects the team works on. In this role, you need to be able to ignite a creative spark in the team and feel comfortable managing a studio complement of 13. Ideally, you come from an art direction/design background, but a copy-based CD may also be considered. We need someone who has their finger on the pulse for the role. You will need to understand the nuances and intricacies of the South African consumer and emerging markets and FMCG experience is a plus. If you are able to follow advertising trends and deliver meaningful and culturally, contextually relevant campaigns that are a true reflection of the times, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Attend strategy meetings for new business
• Meet with creative team to check the status of current projects and assign new projects
• Lead brainstorming sessions with creative teams to develop ad campaigns based on client’s needs
• Create advertising proposals for clients
• Pitch (convincingly) concepts to clients
• Being accountable for the design and copy quality of all projects
• Direct and concept as well as execute creative material when needed
• Manage and mentor the designers, art directors, copywriters, and DTP/production
• Lead projects, critique work and approve final design executions
• Inspire creative team to constantly strive for excellence in the work they produce
• Set and maintain creative standards for the department and enforce accountability when standards are not met
• Challenge and introduce new and innovative methods of creative execution
• Assist the traffic manager in ensuring deadlines are met both internally and externally
• Maintain and encourage a positive creative culture
• Work with leadership team to improve processes and tools to increase product quality and efficiency
• Be strategic when identifying project deliverables, think before designing, support the project goals, and support the business goals
• Making sure that all awards entries are prepared to a superb level and on time

Requirements The successful candidate must have/be:

• Degree/relevant industry qualification
• Agency experience – at least 10 years.
• The ability to lead, and inspire, a team of creative people. This is a key KRA
• A solid background in art direction and esign or copywriting.
• Conceptual thinking is very important.
• Able to manage a team
• FMCG experience – advantageous
• Willingness to work long hours and weekends
• Able to travel often – required.
• The ability to meet and sell idea to clients is important.
• Good communication, interpersonal and be a great representative of the agency
• Experience with Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, PowerPoint
• HTML, PHP, and other web experience
• Knowledge of each step of an ad campaign’s process to give creatives direction, work on a schedule and meet client’s advertising expectations.
• Lots of Agency knowledge and background.
• Relevant portfolio

Please provide a portfolio on application.

Should you not receive a response within one week, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Company Description

Viv Gordon Placements (VGP) is a specialist recruitment agency in the advertising, marketing, media, public relations and publishing industries.

Posted on 07 Sep 09:40

OUR CLIENT DEALING WITH SOLUTIONS FOR CASH AND PAYMENT REQUIRES AN BUSINESS CONSULTANT IN PORT ELIZABETH

Requirements:

• Grade 12/ Matric
• 2 – 3 years’ Experience in Finding new business making use of cold-calling
• Excellent Written and Verbal Communication Skills
• Ability to close sales
• Analytical
• Computer Literate
• Time Management
• Valid Driver’s License

Applicants must reside in PORT ELIZABETH or surrounding area.

Please take note: if you have not been contacted within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Visit our website to view all of our current vacancies: www.mprtc.co.za

Previously disadvantaged candidates will be given preference.

We have a stunning opportunity for a passionate Group Account Director at a fabulous TTL agency based in PE. The role offers the successful candidate the opportunity to work on an exciting, diverse portfolio of accounts. The role will require you to effectively manage the Client Service Team together with a portfolio of clients, to ensure the consistent strategic direction, the overall achievement of financial objectives and client satisfaction is exceeded. You will be responsible for driving the achievement of team’s financial targets, driving high levels of client satisfaction, maximising the team’s performance, leading by example internally and externally and contributing to company vision. We’re looking for a dynamic individual who can make a positive contribution to team morale, company culture, and overall client happiness resulting in generally uplifting the agency environment and reputation.

Responsibilities

• Mid-year and full year measurement against total target
• Achievement of existing client targets
• Ensuring high quality standards of work are being delivered within team                                                                            
• Ensuring strong and healthy client relationships are being built                                                                
• Ensuring clients’ brand is being guided correctly and their business being built
• Providing high level client support to team members                                                                                  
• Mentoring as well as empowering team members to grow within their roles                          
• Driving efficiencies and adherence to internal systems and quality standards
• Adding to agency happiness by proactively building company morale and culture                                                                                                            
• Living the client’s brands and becoming entrenched as an essential ingredient within their business                                                                                                                                      
• Driving constant innovation, improvements, and passion of team for the benefit of both agency and client
• Making a positive contribution to team morale, company culture, and overall client happiness resulting in generally uplifting the agency environment and reputation
• Oversight of Client Service team including staff contentment and effective functioning of team
• Billing system oversights – ensuring an accurate system of all invoicing for work done and that all work done is invoiced
• Maintaining an active role in the agency’s HR Strategy (engagement and retaining), ensuring regular meetings and appraisals with team members.
• Profitability of team – reaching targets as agreed at the beginning of the year.
• Guiding each Account Executive and Manager within the team into the best practice principles of professional client service.
• Leadership and inspiration of the team
• Creating great team rapport and promoting connection between all team members and their clients.
• Oversight of procedures and systems such a quoting, orders and briefs that are done by Account Managers and Executives to ensure a healthy level of profit and consistency of billing structures.
• Oversight of all clients within the team making sure their brands grow and ensuring their overall health and happiness
• 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
• Oversee the management of projects by applying good organisation, planning and follow-up
• Follows up on internal support systems to ensure high level of service delivery
• 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 acts as an ambassador for the agency
• Demonstrates ‘living the client’s brands’ by working with passion and dedication on our clients’ brands
• Understands the complete brand strategy of the client and ensures that marketing and communications revolve around this positioning and strategy
• Analyses agency performance against client investment to the year plan
• Undertakes administrative activities to ensure on-time and accurate billing
• Keeping up-to-date with relevant trends, market and industry, and client relevant (sector and competitor) developments and research
• Ensuring that each client has a brand plan and a year plan linked for financial objectives
• Maintaining a system of weekly status meetings between the relevant Client Service person and client.
• Ensuring relevant strategic planning workshops with each client to focus on building their brand and developing a healthy and clear understanding of the client’s individual needs.
  

Requirements The successful candidate must have/be:

• Relevant Marketing/Advertising (or related) qualification.
• Minimum five years of industry knowledge/ad agency experience.
• Business acumen.
• Customer relationship management experience.
• Marketing experience.
• Management and communication skills.
• Attention to detail – taking zero tolerance on quality issues.
• Able to demonstrate creativity in dealing with the client

Should you not receive a response within two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Company Description

Viv Gordon Placements (VGP) is a specialist recruitment agency in the advertising, marketing, media, public relations and publishing industries.

Posted on 06 Sep 12:00