Account Manager, reporting to Business Director

Key Client contact in managing assignments on a day-to-day basis. Works with Account Director/Business Director to manage overall Client relationship and to ensure all campaigns deliver on brand strategy (and on financial targets).

 Main Responsibilities:

• Act as primary day-to-day contact for various clients across the full range of integrated services
• Work with Account Director to manage overall business and ensure that all team members are working together to deliver great work to our clients
• Responsible for delivering day-to-day activity on Client’s business – including executing agreed scope of work assignments, ensuring that they are delivered on time and on budget with full Client approval
• Oversee and manage all Agency/Client communication requirements including contact reports, status reports, competitive reports and job estimates/scope of work
• Follow protocols for budget control, quality control and legal clearance and ensures that direct reports are aware of and comply with these protocols
• Contribute to new business development, involvement in tendering, pitch preparation and delivery

Experience: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Advertising or similar
• 3+ years of marketing experience, advertising or agency experience with some activation experience an advantage
• Solid understanding of integrated marketing communications
• Excellent communications skills
• Team player who is positive and upbeat

We are committed, driven and action oriented, but we also like to have some fun. You will have a high energy, be a positive, can-do person who is never satisfied, and is always looking for ways to improve what we do. In exchange, we offer an excellent remuneration package and great place to work.

Contact:

Niamh O’Kennedy, Business Development Director, 6 Ely Place, Dublin 2, Niamh.okennedy@ogilvy.com

Location
Dublin
Employment Type
Permanent, full time role
Job Description

Reporting directly to Senior Account Manager
Attract and interview new personnel to join brand ambassador teams
Co-ordination and booking of staff – nationwide
Development, implementation and logistical coordination of events and promotional campaigns
Sourcing of uniforms and supplies
Report generation – written & photographic
Development and management of personnel liaison at all points and stages of campaigns
Ensure day to day running of campaigns
Work along side team on all campaigns from initial concept, pitch process, implementation, management, post campaign analysis, feedback and reporting
On site management of both large and medium scale events and activations
Desired Skills & Experience
3rd level degree/ Accredited 3rd level cert/ diploma in Marketing
Knowledge of and passion for events and experiential campaigns
Proven ability to work as a team player within a fast paced and challenging environment
Proficient in Microsoft Word/ Excel/ PowerPoint
Excellent people skills
Full driving licence and own transport not essential but an advantage
Good report/proposal writing skills & command of English
Excellent communication skills
Highly organised & efficient
Pro-active & motivated
A logistical thinker & problem solver
Punctual
Possess a very keen attention for detail
A flair for innovation and creativity
If you think you are the right person for this role please email careers@grooveyard.ie for further information.

Location
Dublin
Employment Type
Permanent, full time role
Job Description
Reporting directly to Senior Account Manager
Managing new and existing clients from proposal to implementation and on the ground activity
Build strong relationships with clients, liaising with them on a day-to-day basis
Strong writing and presentation skills for new business pitches, presentations and feedback/review reporting
Excellent time management skills – ability to prioritise and lead multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring that all are delivered on time
Responsible for the preparation and reconciliation of budgets
End to end management and execution of events/experiential campaigns – including but not limited to continuous liaison with clients/stakeholders and managing their expectations, briefing, logistics and sourcing of all required campaign elements, such as POS, branding, promotional items etc
Desired Skills & Experience
Knowledge of and passion for experiential marketing campaigns and events
Proven ability to work as a team player within a fast paced and challenging environment
Excellent people skills
Full driving licence and own transport not essential but an advantage
Excellent communication skills
Highly organised & efficient
Pro-active & motivated
A logistical thinker & problem solver
Punctual
Possess a very keen attention for detail
A flair for innovation and creativity
If you think you are the right person for this role please email careers@grooveyard.ie for further information.

Senior Account Executive
As a Senior Account Executive with Havas Dublin, you will work on projects for a diverse portfolio of blue-chip brands, responsible for the planning and execution of successful, category-leading campaigns.
Working alongside a dedicated team of account managers, directors, creatives, and interns, you will ensure that all aspects of your campaigns are activated on time and on budget, in the best possible way.
Most importantly though, you will ensure that your clients are 100% satisfied with the results.
The successful candidate will have experience in the following fields:

Client Management
The most important skill an account handler can possess. You will have experience in direct client management, and will be required to build strong relationships with all your clients.

Experiential
Planning and executing events from end to end, managing logistics, and making sure everything goes precisely to plan. Occasionally it doesn’t, so you need to be able to think on your feet and keep cool under pressure.

Shopper Marketing
With an excellent understanding of the processes involved including proofing and sending artwork, liaising with printers, clients and the creative team.

Social, Digital, OOH & PR
As these are common channels our clients activate in, you must be au-fait with technology, the latest trends, and what’s going on in the world around you.

General Tasks
Including preparing quotes, CPAs & presentations, getting stuck into creative sessions and working with all internal departments.

Essential Skills
• Excellent attention to detail and highly organised
• An interest in and hunger for creating marketing magic
• A strong desire to deliver Table Tennis batterings to your colleagues
• Working in a fast-paced team and keeping a cool head under pressure
• Knowledge of artwork generation and production processes
• An understanding of all the elements that make a great cup of tea; including, but not limited to, strength and brewing time
• A passion to live and breathe the marketing life both personally and professionally
• Creativity and thought provocation

Think you have what it takes? Then send your CV to job@havas.ie

Title: Staffing Manager

Level: 3

Please send CV and cover letter to love@becausexm.ie

Where does this role fit within the overall business? To oversee the staffing function of the agency who have responsibility for recruiting and deploying engaging, reliable promotion staff that will deliver campaign objectives.
What is the purpose of this role? To establish and maintain the systems and processes that enable the staffing team to recruit, train and retain best in class field staff able to deliver clients project objectives.
What are the core responsibilities?
1) Staffing Services
a) Oversee staffing function to deliver 99% compliance. Create procedures to evaluate staff performance
b) Ensure policies and documentation are updated in line with legal requirements. Oversee payroll. Manage field staff HR and discipline
c) Conduct regular analysis of staff database to ensure data is accurate. Identify potential staffing gaps
d) Influence and recommend reporting and evaluation methods to ensure learnings are captured and shared
e) Work with wider project team to understand what success looks like for the client. Strategize and organize annual recruitment plans to ensure that staff are profiled and trained to be the best in class

2) Business Performance
a) Utilises financial information to ensure that the team work within defined guidelines of cost to book field staff and cost to train field staff. Understands and applies a commercial acumen to ways of working to best enhance profitability
b) Complete or approve the staffing sections of campaign budgets, protecting contribution to profits

3) People Performance
a) Understand and train the team to relevant people management skills that can be applied to our collective field based team that will support motivation, performance and retention
b) Review the performance of team members via regular feedback with managers, formal PADRs and training and development programs
c) Demonstrates a firm, pro-active, calm and consistent attitude

Does this role contribute to other areas of the business? Works in conjunction with Business Director to identify opportunities for additional revenue streams for client seeking independent staffing services.

Intended use of time
Staffing Services 70% : Business Performance 15% : People Performance 15%

What are the key performance measures?
● Field staff compliance of >99%
● Quality of staffing output
● Contribution to campaign profit
● Cost to book and cost to train field staff (within defined guidelines)

What management information will be utilised to assess performance?
● Job bag reconciliations – contribution to project profit
● Aggregated staffing compliance records and mystery shopping reports
● Time analysis

Title: Account Director (Experiential & Shopper Marketing)
Level: 4
Salary: Commensurate with experience
Reporting to: Client Services Director
Based: 10 Lad Lane, Dublin 2

Where does this role fit within the overall business? A senior member of the Client Account Management Team who are responsible for delivering best practice responsibilities across a portfolio of clients. The ultimate aim is to secure a number of happy clients with successful, rewarding relationships
What is the purpose of this role? To lead a team that are able to understand a client’s objectives and tailor brand experience solutions to meet specific project KPIs. Maintain an appropriate understanding of project information in order to protect both client and company ambitions.
What are the core responsibilities?
1) Client Account Management;
a) Able to translate client objectives into workable brand experience solutions and associated project deliverables. Accountable for agencies commitment to project KPIs
b) Establishes the appropriate systems and resource to deliver best in class client account management. Working to agreed parameters of time, target and budget
i) Utilizes project management matrix to ensure appointed team have accountability and responsibility at the right level for project in hand
c) Demonstrates analytical skills to review project performance and provide corrective measures to improve achievement of project KPIs and ROI

2) Business Performance;
a) Creates campaign budgets to most efficiently work a client budgets, whilst protecting internal margins
b) Understands and applies a commercial acumen to ways of working to best enhance productivity and profitability. Ensures that teams work within agreed business performance measures
c) Demonstrates influencing skills (including sales) to ensure that we maximize a client’s potential spend

3) People Performance;
a) Understands the ways in which to best motivate and improve team performance
b) Demonstrates a challenging, confident, consistent and driven attitude
c) Review the performance of team members via regular feedback with managers, formal PADRs and training and development programs
Does this role contribute to other areas of the business?
Existing Business Development (EBD); Works in conjunction with Client Services Director to identify opportunities for business growth within and in addition existing client project spend

New Business Development (EBD); Works in conjunction with Managing Director to identify opportunities for business growth with new potential clients

Intended use of time
Client Account Management 40% : Business Performance 20% : People Performance 10% : EBD/NBD 30%

What are the key performance measures?
● Percentage of projects delivered to time, target and budget. Target compliance of >90%
● Client retention and analysis of feedback
● GP of IRE budget. Target of > 40%
● Team performance, motivation and retention levels

What management information will be utilised to assess performance?
● Project dashboard analysis
● Client Quarterly Planning Meetings (or client 360s, project evaluations in the absence there of)
● IRE management accounts
● Team 360 feedback

Please send your application to love@becausexm.ie

Publicis has always been about creating great ideas that build brands and businesses. Those brands are, we believe, built through a combination of powerful storytelling and compelling experiences. Our social and digital offering is an increasingly integral part of that.   The role will involve working with brands such as VHI, Bord Gáis Energy, Horse Racing Ireland, Iarnród Éireann, Today FM, Universal Music, Nestlé and TG4. We also work on advocacy and awareness for non-profits such as Trócaire, ChangeX and Barnardos.

The successful candidate will become a key member of our digital team, working alongside creative directors, copywriters, designers, art directors, developers and in partnership with our strategy & client services team. Reporting to our Digital Strategy Director, this is a permanent, full-time role (our standard 6-month probationary period applies).

The role will require deep understanding of digital and social media channels and platforms. It will involve a blend of strategy (identifying the right approaches to meet agreed client KPIs, working with the client to identify opportunities to win) and delivery (proactively managing the work, acting as the bridge between creative and client teams, tracking performance).

The right candidate will have good creative and critical sensibilities. They will be proactive, energetic, naturally communicative and detail-oriented. Experience working in digital & social media is mandatory; we expect that candidates will be from a media communications / production, digital consultancy or digital agency background.   The Role   •   Lead a project team of creative, design, copy & video specialists, in building standout, effective, high-performing work for some of Ireland’s biggest brands •   Creating brand content for platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, clientowned blogs and where appropriate additional platforms such as Snapchat •   Managing publishing schedules and resources, working alongside our agency traffic manager •   Managing briefings, communicating with and building rapport and trust among client teams •   Tracking work performance, management of agency time and effort •   Reporting to the client and to agency management on performance and opportunities Skills & Experience   •   Experience of working in a digital / social environment in a team lead role •   Up to date knowledge of digital & social media channels and platforms •   Digital / social publishing experience, across schedules, revisions, approval processes •   CMS platform experience (e.g. WordPress, Squarespace, Expression Engine, SiteCore) •   Knowledge of xHTML / CSS, creative media production, Adobe Creative Suite, all pluses   Abilities   •   Clear communicator, able to interact well with colleagues at all levels, client & agency side   •   Ability to brief teams effectively, working with agility to make judgements and answer queries •   Can work calmly under pressure and manage tight turnaround of client feedback   •   Ability to effectively manage a varied workload and work to tight deadlines   •   Ability to maintain social, organisational and professional standards in job-related activities     Salary expectations   Commensurate with experience and dependent on candidate suitability.     About Publicis Dublin   Publicis is one of Ireland’s leading creative communications agencies, and is part of the Publicis Groupe network. At our two agency brands (Publicis Dublin and Publicis D), our team of 60+ individuals create and deliver standout ideas that build and sustain great brands. Our work has been recognised over the years by our peers, across Cannes Lions, Kinsale Sharks, ICADs and APMC awards. We have a commitment to ideas and a creative culture which is well-known in the industry. We also throw fairly decent parties. People who come to Publicis typically benefit hugely from the experience, generating enviable portfolios of work with some great clients and colleagues. We invest in and care for our people. Our culture comes first; everything else follows.

Contact Ed Melvin, Director, Publicis Dublin – ed.melvin@publicis.ie, 086-6022101

As an Intern with Havas Worldwide Dublin, you will work on projects for a diverse portfolio of blue-chip brands, assisting in researching planning and executing successful, category-leading campaigns. The role is a paid internship for 3 months, leading to a full time role for ideal, proven candidates.

Your regular, day-to-day tasks will include:

-Brainstorming, idea creation, inventing concepts and researching potential work before proposing to clients
-Finding and working with 3rd party suppliers to make the magic happen
-Supporting the senior management team with document preparation, research and resource provision
-Planning and overseeing experiential activations and events
-Working on all areas of the business from prepping Digital marketing content, to assisting with TV and Photographic shoots

Working alongside a dedicated team of account managers and executives, the client services director and the creatives, you will be responsible for ensuring that all aspects of campaigns are activated fully and in the best possible manner. You must be outgoing, innovative, interested and committed, or you won’t enjoy this role.

The successful candidate should possess the following:

A very strong understanding of Social Media and Digital Marketing
-An interest and hunger for creating marketing magic
-Working in a fast paced team and keeping a cool head under pressure
-Knowledge of artwork generation and production processes
-Making tea, strong with a drop of milk and no sugar
-Great computer literacy and excellent Microsoft Office skills
-A passion to live and breathe the marketing life both personally and professionally
-Creativity and thought provocation

If this is you, then please send your CV to jobs@havasww.ie

We have a place open for a digital diva who eats, sleeps & breaths social and digital but more importantly who knows when, where and how to use the channels available to change behaviour.

You will assist the Client Service Teams in building apps, running social media promos, developing micro-sites, writing content, monitoring analytics and most importantly bringing digital into the heart of every campaign.

If it’s in your DNA to blog, snap, tweet, text and post then connect with us: superstartalent@insightmarketing.ie / Simon or Ben 01 6619966

You could go old school and send us your CV by snail mail but probably not the best plan considering the position.

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