Account Director (PR) at Accenture

About the role

• We are seeking an Account Director to work on a portfolio of various corporate clients and brands. The successful candidate must have extensive experience working on Earned Media clients and campaigns. It is imperative that the successful candidate keeps abreast with all Earned Media, PR and Influencer trends, within industry best practices.

Responsibilities (include but are not limited to):

• Senior client lead and team lead: interpret, develop, and manage strategy for clients and ensures that all plans are delivered and are in line with scope of work
• Manage client expectations and service delivery by being a focal point for day to day interaction and take responsibility for the delivery of exceptional work.
• Build and manage client business and relationships, taking ultimate responsibility for client relationships with senior client contacts as well as senior business contacts and be a strategic business partner
• Understand the client s strategy and agency process to deliver efficiently and to the highest quality
• Ensure all work produced by team is of the highest standard and demonstrates creativity, attention to detail, contemporary thinking, use of new approaches and links to overall strategy and supports clients business objectives
• Actively ensures that team members grow and develop into strong earned media professionals, through growth opportunities, upskilling, delegation, accountability, and mentoring
• Responsible for overall health and happiness of client team
• Deliver content and solutions that speak to full PESO model Paid, Earned, Social and Owned
• Manage all contractual and financial aspects of client relationship including scope of work, client KPIs, team resourcing and hour allocation, budget tracking and management including renegotiating annual retainer increase
• Manage profitability of team, over- and under-servicing trends in team and proactively manages to correct
• Ensure financial admin (Workbook) is running smoothly and accurately
• Actively looks for opportunities to sell-in new projects, services or organically grow clients in other ways
• Lead and participates in new business pitches
• Support your Business Unit Director in driving and growing Earned media through new business, new products and new thinking
• Ability to manage different personalities and always strive to get the best out of each individual
• Keep abreast of industry (Earned Media) trends in order to add additional value to your client’s business

Qualifications/Experience/Skill:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in PR and or Business Communications
• Minimum 8 years working experience in a PR Agency or in a similar environment
• Proficient in Office 365 i.e. Word/Excel/MS Teams/PowerPoint etc.
• Traditional and Digital Earned media experience is essential
• Well versed in Digital
• A good command of the English language (both verbal and written)
• Knowledgeable and proficient in at least one communication area e.g. media relations, influencer relations, content
• Strong presentation skills
• Strong administrative and organisational skills.
• Strong numerical skills financial budget management experience
• Strong multitasking skills (ability to work on more than one client at any given time)