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Advertising Account Executive | Abu Dhabi, UAE

Samer Marzouq — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:08:36 +0000

Typical work activities
Contribute to and develop advertising campaigns. Tasks typically involve:

- Meeting and liaising with clients to discuss and identify their advertising requirements;
- Working with agency colleagues to devise an advertising campaign that meets the client’s brief and budget;
- Presenting, alongside agency colleagues – particularly the account manager, the campaign ideas and budget to the client;
- Working with the account manager to brief media, creative and research staff, and assisting with the formulation of marketing strategies;
- Liaising with, and acting as the link between, the client and advertising agency by maintaining regular contact with both, ensuring that communication flows effectively;
- Negotiating with clients and agency staff about the details of campaigns;
- Presenting creative work to clients for approval or modification;
handling budgets, managing campaign costs and invoicing clients;
writing client reports;
- Monitoring the effectiveness of campaigns;
- Undertaking administration tasks;
- Arranging and attending meetings;
- Making ‘pitches’, along with other agency staff, to try to win new business for the agency.

Skills
- Bachelors Degree in Marketing / Business Administration / Management or equivalent
- Minimum of 2 years relevant experience and exposure in Marketing or equivalent
- Customer Service Skills
- Strong interpersonal / relationship skills
- Detailed, organized and result-oriented
- Community awareness and sociable
- Project Management Skills

Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing / Business Administration / Management or equivalent

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Media Planning Manager | Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, UAE

Samer Marzouq — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:52:44 +0000

Ferrari World Abu Dhabi provides many unique career opportunities and has a broad range of positions available.

By joining the Ferrari World Abu Dhabi team, you will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take part in opening the world’s first Ferrari theme park and largest attraction of its kind. Ferrari World Abu Dhabi provides you with the opportunity to apply your expertise and expand your career in a unique environment, which combines the highest levels of service, operations and entertainment.

At Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, you will enjoy working with industry experts in every aspect of the operation coupled with a diverse group of professionals from over 20 countries. In addition, training programs will be provided to aid you in developing your professional skills as well as promote career growth.

We invite you to explore our career opportunities in this one-of-a-kind development and join our enthusiastic team.

Skills
In the role of Media Planning Manager you will report to the Marketing Director and will be responsible for developing effective and innovative media plans for Ferrari World Abu Dhabi and other Leisure Facility projects as requested. In this position, you will launch cost effective and impactful local and regional media campaigns, thus acting as primary point of contact for media buying agencies. Furthermore, you will develop and set up tools to continuously monitor competition from a media trend and a destination stand point. The Media Planning Manager will prepare briefs and present media plans to the Marketing Director, including objectives and strategy rationale and will be responsible for measuring and monitoring all media activities.

We are looking for a Colleague with a minimum of 4 years of media planning experience in the Middle East. In addition you should possess the ability to organize, prioritize, work well under pressure, meet tight deadlines and multi-task. We expect solid research and analytical skills, excellent negotiation and communication skills as well as mathematical aptitude and detail focus.

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Media Account Manager | Synaxis Media & Advertising Abu Dhabi, UAE

Samer Marzouq — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:54:14 +0000

Duties:
1. Achieving company monthly and yearly sales targets.
2. Develop and maintain strong relationships with all clients and source new clients by visit, telephone, email and letter in coordination with Sales Director.
3. Prepare and submit daily, weekly and monthly sales progress report to Sales Director and provide constructive feedback from daily experience.
4. Continuously enhance and update your presentation and communication skills, keep your entire client presentation documents organized and up to date in coordination with Sales Director.
5. To be available to cover for other managed locations and work extra hours when and where necessary.
6. Tracking of Media outstanding payments in coordination with Sales Director and Finance Dept.
7. Develop and submit comprehensive proposals based on individually or team assessed the needs of potential clients.
8. Maintain up-to-date sales pipeline and forecasts.
9. Respect company policy, procedures, legislation and proceed through the proper authorized channels.
10. To effectively and confidently fulfill the role and responsibilities of an Account Manager.

Skills
1. Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, while adhering to established time frames.
2. Strong organization and prioritization skills
3. Excellent customer service skills.
4. Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills.
5. Enthusiastic, hard working, energetic, experienced, presentable, well organized, able to meet deadlines, able to execute daily tasks, self starter, able to work with others and willing to contribute to team.
6. Confident personality with ability to negotiate with client.
7. Good knowledge of UAE Media Markets.
8. Demonstrated strong sales skills.
9. Demonstrated experience developing processes to obtain leads through comparison and evaluation of possible sourcing opportunities.
10. Proven ability to achieve goals.
11. Excellent computer knowledge, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Internet skills.
12. Excellent communication skills, Fluent in English writing, reading and speaking (Arabic is a plus), with good interpersonal and presentation skills.
13. Valid UAE Driving License.

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Group Advertising Account Director | TBWA / RAAD Abu Dhabi, UAE

Samer Marzouq — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:52:31 +0000

Job responsibilities:
- Contribute actively to the formulation and articulation of Client Servicing strategy
- Deliver on targets for accounts in terms of Revenue and Profitability
- Indentify opportunities to cross-sell other services or enhance current scope and keep Client Servicing Director updated on any leads for the accounts
- Conduct Agency Evaluation to take feedback from clients twice a year
- Act as brand custodian for account brands and take ownership for the growth and positioning of the brands
- Prepare a Brand Intelligence Report based on insights shared in the meeting. Share report with Creative and Planning.
- Lead briefing to execution for critical jobs and big launches
- Ensure all deliverables to clients are to brief, guidelines and budget and within deadlines
- Oversee and approve status reports sent to the clients on a periodic basis
- Prepare a reconciliation of billing and estimates on a monthly basis based on discussion within the team and with Finance
- Work closely with Finance to resolve invoicing and collections and other financial management issues related to the accounts.

Education Required
- Bachelors or Masters in Related field

Experience Required
Candidates must have at least 6-10 years of experience in the related field

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Advertising Account Director | O2 Marketing Communications Abu Dhabi, UAE

Samer Marzouq — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:28:19 +0000

• Manages the Client Servicing Department, knowing they are establishing and maintaining contacts with clients. Deals with clients, to maintain goodwill and promote business, to address and resolve problems and to discuss advertising contracts.
• Overall in charge of formulating sales goals in order to grow client portfolio revenue and developing skills and expertise within the team.
• Responsible for providing overall development of business from existing clients. Builds strong on-going relationships with the clients and ensures a high level of client satisfaction.
• Pays attention to details, ensures excellent client service, manages customer expectations, resolves issues and cultivates lasting relationships.
• Serves as a liaison between the client and the agency, maintains good internal relations with all other functions to be able to provide excellent service to the client.
• Performs a strategic role by managing all the company’s sales and revenue activities. Ensures the highest standards of professionalism and knowledge in all staff.
• To lead and direct Client Servicing team to deliver consistent service, exceed customer expectation and achieve dept specific objectives;
• Actively seek opportunities to generate additional exposure through the media for and on behalf of the various business units.
• Attend launches, promotions and events for and on behalf of the various business units as may be required by management.
• Act as spokesperson for and on behalf of the business units as may be required by management.
• Making sure that the new Business Development is being achieved.
• To make sure that the O2 expectation plan must be done within the specifically given time frame.
• To submit the monthly report for the Client Servicing Team of overall performances and to monitor their Quarterly KPI reports.
• To submit the monthly report for Clients overall status.

Skills
• Business skills including; accounting; control systems; human resources; marketing; finance.
• Computer skills including;
• Supervisory skills including; co-ordination of staff; familiarity with payroll; staff evaluations.
• Public relations skill including; member relationships; director relationships;
• Good leadership skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent presentation skills
• Excellent inter personal skills
• Excellent cultural awareness and ability to interact with people of multiple cultures

Education
Professional Qualification

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Strategic Planning Director | Viola Communications Abu Dhabi, UAE

Samer Marzouq — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:12:29 +0000

• Responsible for strategic planning for the agency clients.
• Prepare strategy, communication plan for brands’ based on inputs from client and partner agencies.
• Develops the marketing / communication strategies.
• Briefs the different departments on the marketing / communication strategy.
• Responsible for strategy presentations to existing / potential clients.
• Identifies the market data sources available in the market and checks for new sources of information on a permanent basis.
• Contribute actively to the formulation and articulation of BD strategy.
• Work and contribute actively to every new pitch.
• Collaborate with departmental heads to ensure compliance to and implementation of organizational policies and procedures in strategic planning department.
• Participate actively in new projects / initiatives that will aid the achievement of organizational strategy as required.
• Give inputs for standardizing and changing formats used by BD if required.
• Ensure that the strategic planning processes are being complied to through periodic monitoring and review.
• Share knowledge, best practices and new development with the heads of the agency department.
• Contribute to creating smooth communication channels across functions.
• Collaborate to make knowledge sharing initiatives successful.
• Act as brand custodian for accounts ‘brands and take ownership for the growth and positioning of the brands.
• Assist in keeping track of proactive initiatives not accepted by the client and incorporate in client review.
• Present research proposals to client to get approval / by-in/ sponsorship as required.
• Give inputs for planning team structure and resources and discuss related issues with LM.

Skills
Graduate degree in business, marketing, or equivalent
2. from 5-7 years experience working in same position within advertising agency.
3. Have very good presentation skills.
4. Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
5. Ability to supervise and train employees.
6. Organized, smart, and respect deadlines.

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Creative Director | Viola Communications Abu Dhabi, UAE

Samer Marzouq — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:10:21 +0000

1. Develops basic presentation approaches and directs layout design and copy writing for promotional material for both ATL and BTL.
2. Reviews materials and information presented by client and discusses various production factors to determine most desirable presentation concept.
3. Lead the team of designers, copy writers, and production on their day to day responsibilities.

4. Reviews and approves art and copy materials developed by team and presents final layouts to client for approval.
5. Work collaboratively with heads of department in the agency, participate in company strategizing, and make recommendations for changes to the creative function to meet market changes, competitive threats or to support strategic plans.
6. Understand agencies strategic goals and brand; analyze the creative team, environment, processes, technologies, etc., to determine areas needing improvement; and build and direct a creative function aligned with and supportive of those goals.
7. Make decisions on a daily basis that ensure both profitability and creative quality.
8. Set expectations and standards (build a culture) for creative team attitude, behavior, teamwork and professional development. Lead accordingly.
10. Managing outside resources, including vendors, photographers, color separators, printers, freelancers, web and interactive sub-contractors.

12. Preparing and justifying job estimates.
13. Quality control, including proofing, reviewing, measuring and evaluating staff performance, creative output and project process (es).
14. Continually learning, evaluating and implementing new marketing communications technologies within the agency and for client campaigns.
15. Direct the activities and professional development of creative team members, including conducting staff reviews, taking corrective actions and recommending promotions.
16. Study the creative marketplace, assessing where Schermer Kuehl’s work stands against competitors’, as well as our clients’ competitors’ creative work.
17. Drive constant improvement in company’s creative quality and capabilities.
18. With the account lead, assure that internal and client presentations are on time, professional, engaging, persuasive and supported by a sound rationale.
19. Assure that timely and informative communication takes place between the creative function and the partners, account team and clients.
20. Contribute to the strategic and creative development of the agency’s marketing and branding efforts for new business development.

Skills
1. Undergraduate degree in Fine Arts or related field or equivalent visual design and management experience required; graduate degree preferred.
2. At least 8 years management experience working within advertising agency.
3. Must possess a thorough understanding of interactive communications and delivery systems, processes, and user interface design as well as industry best practices.
4. Knowledge of layouts, graphic fundamentals, typography & limitations of the web; and have the ability to storyboard or translate ideas to designers and develop innovative motion graphics solutions.
5. Ability to lead projects from concept to completion. Apply best practices in user interface and interactive design, including image optimization and site mapping.
6. Experience with software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign & Flash.
7. Experience with Adobe AfterEffects & video editing (a plus)
8. Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
9. Ability to supervise and train employees, to include organizing, prioritizing, and scheduling work assignments.
10. Have the Passion, Integrity, and Energy.
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Fluency in Arabic language is a MUST.

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Media Planning Manager | Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, UAE

Samer Marzouq — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:08:16 +0000

Ferrari World Abu Dhabi provides many unique career opportunities and has a broad range of positions available.

We invite you to explore our career opportunities in this one-of-a-kind development and join our enthusiastic team.

Skills
In the role of Media Planning Manager you will report to the Marketing Director and will be responsible for developing effective and innovative Media plans for Ferrari World Abu Dhabi and other Leisure Facility projects as requested. In this position, you will launch cost effective and impactful local and regional Media campaigns, thus acting as primary point of contact for Media buying agencies. Furthermore, you will develop and set up tools to continuously monitor competition from a Media trend and a destination stand point. The Media Planning Manager will prepare briefs and present Media plans to the Marketing Director, including objectives and strategy rationale and will be responsible for measuring and monitoring all Media activities.

We are looking for a Colleague with a minimum of 4 years of Media planning experience in the Middle East. In addition you should possess the ability to organize, prioritize, work well under pressure, meet tight deadlines and multi-task. We expect solid research and analytical skills, excellent negotiation and communication skills as well as mathematical aptitude and detail focus.

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Client Servicing Executive / Manager | Abu Dhabi, UAE

Samer Marzouq — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:36:16 +0000

Our client a leading multinational agency based in Dubai and Abu Dhabi is looking for an experienced client servicing manager to join their team.
Your role as account manager will entail being responsible for a number of accounts, managing the work of the account executives and being the key person in charge of budgets and administration. The ideal candidate must have at least 4 years experience in an events/branding agency; ideally in U.A.E.
Your role as an Account Manager will entail being responsible for managing their various projects. The ideal candidate must have the ability to build a relationship from within Client accounts. This role requires someone to work with the Production Team to co-ordinate the development of projects from concept to delivery.
• Manage a portfolio of client accounts and projects across a broad range of creative, technical and/or specialist activities
• Develop existing Client relationships in order to effectively communicate the Department’s operations and capabilities and to ensure a consistent and growing flow of work into the department
• To work with colleagues to ensure that the overall Department portfolio is managed effectively
• Advise the client on the best solutions to their communication needs
• Create, design and implement these

Salary Dependant on Experience

Skills
See Description

Education
Degree in Event Managment / Marketing preferred

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National Client Servicing Executive / Manager | Abu Dhabi, UAE

Samer Marzouq — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:14:44 +0000

Our client a leading multinational agency based in Dubai is looking for an experienced client servicing manager to join their team.
Your role as account manager will entail being responsible for a number of accounts, managing the work of the account executives and being the key person in charge of budgets and administration. The ideal candidate must have at least 4 years experience in an events/branding agency; ideally in Dubai.
Your role as an Account Manager will entail being responsible for managing their various projects. The ideal candidate must have the ability to build a relationship from within Client accounts. This role requires someone to work with the Production Team to co-ordinate the development of projects from concept to delivery.
• Manage a portfolio of client accounts and projects across a broad range of creative, technical and/or specialist activities
• Develop existing Client relationships in order to effectively communicate the Department’s operations and capabilities and to ensure a consistent and growing flow of work into the department
• To work with colleagues to ensure that the overall Department portfolio is managed effectively
• Advise the client on the best solutions to their communication needs
• Create, design and implement these solutions
The ideal candidate would have account management experience within a live communication / events agency.

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