Kerja Sepenuh Masa, Freelance Brand Director di TBWA\Group Singapore - Maukerja

Responsibilities:

Administrative / Operational

• Risk management of projects in execution and delivery phases
• Anticipate potential issues and proactive in finding effective solutions, mitigations, or contingencies.
• Strong organisational skills and oversight of project and asset management, and finance tracking.

Business Acumen

• Manage profitability of project costs against resource utilisation, able to provide solutions when required.
• Responsible for P&L - sustaining account growth, diversification and profitability
• Constantly and creatively looking for opportunities to grow the business
• Aware of how to be effective in SOWs, including for social and digital projects.

Client Management

• Pro-active client development - drive business conversations to expand business/relationships and anticipate potential strategic & business issues and challenges
• Establish strong partnership connections with mid to senior clients as the go to senior person for solutions and platform for transparency in raising off record ad-hoc issues.

Strategy

• Gatekeeper for strategic input, ensuring work and creative briefs align with client objectives
• Foresee and solve strategic problems and challenges for clients
• Act as an escalation point for the team in resolving issues. Supports the team in confidently navigating through problems.
• In-depth understanding of industry trends and their impact on client and company’s businesses
• In-depth understanding of social / digital trends and best practices; know what works, how to incorporate these into projects and how to evaluate their effectiveness.

Creative

• Partner to the creative team, collaborate confidently, responsible for pushing and selling the best creative solution and quality of work to solve the clients business problem
• Cognisant of recent award winning works/industry best practices especially relevant to the client industry

People Management

• Lead effective cross functional interaction and create a conducive environment / culture for the team and client
• Supervise, train, and manage performance of team members
• Provide clear and nurturing feedback to reporting team.

Leadership

• Positive influencing skills, building up your own brand.
• Demonstrate ability for creative problem solving in how they approach every task – whether that’s identifying a way to improve the internal process, or co-creating an inspiring way to sell in the work.

Knowledge Required

• At least 7 years relevant experience with a sound knowledge of print, digital and content production processes
• Leadership experience in managing an account servicing team
• Sound financial planning and budget management experience

Skills Required

• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent relationship management and presentation
• The ability to multi-task and provide holistic leadership support across a range of clients

Attributes

• Team player with a ‘hands-on’ approach
• Responsible, with a ‘Can do’, willing and positive attitude to be a support system for our clients
• Ability to work under tight deadlines with multiple projects
• An ability to prioritise workload as well as an ability to pre-empt, identify and respond to problems
• Reliability, i.e. resilience, confidence, tenacity and maturity
• Personal, enthusiastic and committed – capable of gaining trust and respect from colleagues
• Experience working across the tourism, travel, luxury and/or automotive industry, an advantage