Job description

Engage Video Group

The largest social publisher in Southern Africa

Engage Video Group platforms achieve more social shares than the top 100 brands in the country. 

 Job advert: client lead

• Looking for a strategically strong accounts person, known for a commitment to excellence who is looking for an exciting challenge outside of the agency world.
• This is a great opportunity for a strong leader who’s excelled in all aspects of an agency’s processes, including ideation, client service, overall production and managing and inspire a team.
• We’re looking for someone who inspires others with their thirst for excellence and demonstrates consistently high-quality work so the whole company can completely rely on them.

About: Engage Video Group

Engage Video Group is a next generation publishing business specialising in highly sharable social videos.  Founded by a team of ex-Google and online video experts. Backed by the world’s very best Venture Capitalists.  Driven by the desire to be the biggest and most impactful publisher in Africa. Reaching over 10m people per week.

Requirements

Role requirements

• Internal management:

You will be the linchpin between a team of people across the production, paid media, social media departments. Inspiring team members to deliver their very best work every day in a fast-paced, ever-changing creative environment. You will also need to manage work flows, achieving deadlines and objectives with multiple concurrent work streams.

• Production management:

You will be involved in the ideation, pre-production, shoots and editing. Managing film crews, chefs and stylists and editors who work on projects. Maintaining consistency and highest quality across all projects. Tracking projects over time to ensure delivery to brief and deadline. Ensuring all departments work cohesively together to ensure continuity across the product and delivery

• Strategic creative management:

You will ensure that all videos going live on the foodie’s platform have been thoroughly considered to ensure maximum performance on the platform. This involves an in-depth analysis of the impact of all aspects of videos from thumbnails to headlines. A developed intuitive feel as to how all the above impact performance. Analysing global leaders in our space to identify trends and opportunities. Keeping on top of developments in the industry and remaining at the forefront of progression and innovation in this regard.

• Client management:

You will work with a diverse range of clients across multiple businesses and industries from CMOs to interns.  We require someone in this role to represent our brand and ensure that our effectiveness, world class quality of product, efficiency, creativity and digital leadership remain at the forefront of what our clients expect from us.

Most importantly, you will exhibit the following behavioural characteristics

• Inspirational – you will lead by example and go over and beyond what is expected of you and consistently strive for excellence
• Confident – you will be at ease engaging with senior marketers
• Strongly strategic – you will be able to navigate nuanced complexities around the creative product in the digital world
• Problem solver – you will work quickly and effectively at finding solutions to day-to-day problems – nothing is too big or small
• Highly adaptive – speed, flexibility and quick thinking are key to this role and environment. Our business is very different today than just 6 months ago, this pace of change needs to be inspiring
• Compelling – We need our clients to want to do ever greater amounts of work with us. Amazing effective work which inspires clients is what we need

Additional considerations

• Three to six years of experience in agency
• Ideally strong grasp of digital
• History of high performance, rapid promotion and previous academic achievement a plus
• Package is strongly competitive relative to experience

If you feel that you tick all the boxes, send through your motivational letter and CV to Hayley at

moc.liamg@puorgoedivegagne.ofni

Posted on 12 Jul 10:36