Prodigious is a Production Agency, providing creative and efficient solutions for our clients in rolling out large volumes of content across all marketing channels, as well as completing multiple productions and shoots throughout the year. Prodigious is part of Publicis Groupe, one of the fastest-growing global networks. The role is specifically focused for the Content Studio servicing the Nestlé Global Coffee Category – working on brands like Starbucks and Nescafé on a global scale. For our team, the right personality is just as important as the right experience – so we are likely to be very picky when choosing the right candidate. We are passionate about our clients, about production and about coffee.

The Role: We are looking for an experienced and digitally focused Account Director with a strong strategic eye and a love for digitally led creative to join our agency team in Johannesburg.

Job Description

We are looking for someone who views marketing and advertising as a career and not a job. If you are passionate about production, content across digital channels and brand building, then we would love to meet you! Our expectation is that you will build strong relationships with both our clients and internal agency stakeholders. You will be reporting into the Group Account Director, responsible for supporting the Group Account Director in deivering multiple projects and productions. You need to be able to hit the ground running from day 1, be a self-starter and consistently drive excellence with your team. The Account Director plays an essential role in servicing the Client by ensuring their and their teams’ timeous and accurate execution of briefs, project management of all jobs and the management and tracking of all finances. Attention to detail and strong administrative skills are therefore a critical success factor and requirement for this role. The successful candidate must demonstrate the skills to be credible at this level, with the ability to problem solve and escalate as needed to senior client partners when needed and be able to stay in control of the roll out of client projects and build lasting and trusting relationships.

Scope of the role:

Champion

• Ensure delivery of projects against agreed timelines and milestones of development and execution plan. • Perform day-to-day tasks to ensure integrated campaigns are delivered in partnership with multiple agency stakeholders, ensuring that our campaigns work across all digital touchpoints. • Identify potential risks of a project and communicate this to the Group Account Director to prevent project milestones being missed or budgets being negatively impacted • Actively pursue opportunities to learn and grow within the portfolio • Living shared values and core behaviours of Publicis Groupe. • Maintain excellent intercompany and interdepartmental communication and knowledge transfer

Growth and Profitability

• Assist the team in identifying and maintaining opportunities for optimization and harmonisation / integration of the various departments and Publicis Groupe agencies. • Maintain efficiencies, economies of scale & resource optimisation, ensuring jobs are delivered according to the agreed timings

Talent

• Strive to learn and grow, pro-actively seek opportunities and become involved in projects outside of allocated tasks

Operational Excellence

• Implement, monitor and manage the workflow process as tasked, escalating to the Group Account Director where necessary • Proactively manage of all project timelines, always ensuring on time and in full delivery of projects • Monitor standards by checking all work is on the brief and to the desired quality of level before sending it to client • Assist to optimise internal resource allocation and utilisation • Solid writing, communication and presenting skills in English (a good command of the English language) • Implement and manage digital and social campaigns, with specific emphasis on managing tight timings and deadlines. • Develop digital project plans, with effective and timeous delivery from concept to execution. • Work alongside creative, strategy, media, digital development and data teams; managing multiple campaigns at the same time.

Qualifications

• Relevant industry qualification (i.e. Advertising / Marketing / Business Management) • At least 6 years' working experience in an Agency • At least 2 years' working experience as an Account Director • Experience in Digital campaign delivery across all digital channels • Strong experience in production, understanding the process and requirements to take a shoot from concept to delivery through the entire pre-production, production and post-production ecosystem. • A good command of the English language (both written and verbal) • Proficient in MS Office (i.e. Word / Excel / PowerPoint etc.) • Proficient in use of Chase Software for financial tracking • Proficient in conflict management, ensuring you are able to communicate clearly and respectfully

Personal Profile:

The successful new candidate will be passionate about the advertising and communications industry, highly motivated with excellent communication and problem-solving skills. The following attributes are also essential: • Highly organised • Detail orientated • Multi-tasker • Easily self-manage • A team player • Working independently and collaboratively with key team members • Hungry to learn and grow and always willing to try something new • Thrive in an ever-changing environment • A passion for storytelling • A keen eye for detail and a drive for perfection • Deadline awareness and ability to handle all kinds of pressure • Taking initiative and ownership of your projects, don’t be a paper-pusher! • Pro-actively solving problems • An acute sense of responsibility and accountability • Cool, calm and optimistic • Enjoying the thrill of a challenge • Motivated by a desire to add value to your clients’ business • A sense of humour • Celebrate the small stuff.

Should you not hear from us within 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.