PR Account Manager
at Ogilvy
Riyadh, منطقة الرياض, Saudi Arabia -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 20 Nov, 2024 | Not Specified | 22 Aug, 2024 | 3 year(s) or above | Financial Understanding,Strategic Insights,Color,Creative Agency,Negotiation,Program Development,Collaboration,Communication Skills,Business Acumen,Research,Self Expression,English,Consideration | No | No |
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Description:
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:
MEMAC Ogilvy is seeking a dynamic PR Account Manager to act as a crucial conduit between our valued clients and our creative and strategic internal teams. In this role, you will be entrusted with managing day-to-day client relationships, driving projects forward, and ensuring the delivery of top-tier solutions.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience: 3-5 years in client-facing roles within the PR industry.
- Industry Knowledge: Understanding of client and agency operations, familiarity with Ogilvy’s capabilities.
- Strategic Skills: Background in PR strategy and program development, offering strategic insights to clients.
- Negotiation: Proven negotiation skills and forming strong client relationships at junior to mid-levels.
- Project Management: Ability to deliver projects on budget and on time, with strong organizational skills.
- Business Acumen: Developing commercial skills and financial understanding.
- Agency Processes: Understanding agency processes in relation to client business.
- Team Collaboration: Strong internal relationships, especially with creative teams.
- Communication: Excellent writing and communication skills in English and Arabic.
- Research & Analysis: Strong research, analysis, and trend identification skills.
- Problem-Solving: Anticipates project consequences and takes necessary action to keep projects on track.
- Client Relations: Acts as the day-to-day client contact for logistical issues, building strong client relationships.
Memac Ogilvy inspires brands and people to impact the world. We exist to create iconic, culture-changing, value-driven ideas for our clients.
How We’ll Support You Memac Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.
Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or physical or mental disability. We believe in creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion and strives to recruit a diverse slate of candidates to help us achieve that goal.
At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression.
We believe in building powerful teams with purpose. This means hiring and nurturing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientation, and gender identities – and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality.
Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve. This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Responsibilities:
- Lead public relations strategies, writing, media, organizational, research, and production tasks.
- Handle a broad variety of tasks independently and exercise sound judgement.
- Play a primary role in implementing work on client accounts and projects.
- Handle direct client contact, acting as a trusted advisor and programme developer.
- Manage media monitoring solutions as necessary.
- Perform day-to-day account work confidently and competently.
- Work effectively with team members to implement assignments on budget and on deadline, balancing competing priorities.
- Be fully familiar with group’s communications plans for accounts and understands and tracks clients’ businesses.
- Liaise between client, outside suppliers, and other internal and external contacts.
- Develop and sustain positive and professional relationship with client contacts.
- Identify and propose ways to advance team, group, agency, and client interests.
- Develop ability to conceptualize programme strategies and implementation tactics.
- Routinely apply understanding of budget development and monitoring.
- Contribute to budget development where appropriate.
- Manage time for optimum productivity and maximum billability.
- Understand and manage billing and activity reporting processes.
- Meet billability targets established for the account manager position.
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:3.0Max:5.0 year(s)
Marketing/Advertising/Sales
Marketing / Advertising / MR / PR
Sales
Graduate
Proficient
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia