ROLE:  Account Executive

REPORTING: Deputy Managing Partner

DEPARTMENT: Client Service

LOCATION: Zambia

 

OGILVY AFRICA – COMPANY OVERVIEW

Ogilvy Africa is the largest network agency on the continent catering to 39 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 Inbev, 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.

It offers services across the full spectrum of marketing domains including Communication (Advertising, branding and content), Consumer Experience (Technology & e-Commerce), Growth Consulting (incl. Digital Transformation), PR & Influence and Media; all under one unified setup. The agency has also created proprietary marketing products in areas such as real-time marketing, social intelligence, virtual experiences, influencer management, e-commerce enablement and content hubs. It’s 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.

With 20+ years in Africa, Ogilvy Africa has 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, founded by David Ogilvy in 1948.

 

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.

 

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

Knowledge Areas:

• Collaborating with the Account Manager (AM) in preparation of recommendations, marketing strategies and actions for the client
• Assist the AM to keep the brank 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:

• Day to Day management of client projects and ensuring efficient execution.
• Receives timely client approval of agency output for assigned work
• Client recognizes initiative, personal and work style.

 

Commercial Management:

• Support with business development efforts.
• 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

 

QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS

Required Qualifications:

• A tertiary qualification in Marketing, Business or relevant field.

 

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
• Working knowledge of digital marketing and social media
• At Least 2 years 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.

 

 OGILVY BELIEFS  

• People need regular OS upgrades: Even the best OS will be obsolete tomorrow unless its constantly upgrades.  Same is true for people.
• We need more cows than milk men: 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, individuals fail.
• Fail often, fail fast: We see entrepreneurs 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.

 

HOW TO APPLY

Ogilvy Africa is an equal opportunity employer that believes in diversity as a competitive advantage. We are committed to a fair and inclusive hiring process. To minimise unconscious biases from our hiring process, we’ve taken on an initiative to #RightTheCV (find out more by clicking here)

We encourage candidates to apply using this free, downloadable template, available here https://bit.ly/2OtLnYH

Kindly forward your application to [email protected] indicating the job title as the subject. Please also share your motivation for the role along with your updated CV

Closing Date: September 16,2024