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Job Title: Account Manager   
Job Code:AM/SA/131014
Number of Positions open: 1
Reports to: Account Director
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Closing Date:  Open Until Filled
Summary:    
Our client is an Experiential Marketing Agency.  Their purpose is to build relationships between brands and the people who matter most to them.They offer our clients key support in order to work through their products and create brands that resonate with the target customers, and to continually be lived and loved and be part and parcel of daily life experience.
Primary Responsibilities
Assigned specific campaign accounts and activations
Contribute in overall strategic and operations planning phases
Ensure assigned project teams are well informed (trickle down information-top to bottom-top)
Generate budgets for assigned campaigns
Generate operations budget and ensure agency receives the most competitive rates from suppliers
Generate and monitor critical path schedules for activation campaigns
Manage senior project managers assigned to campaigns
Oversee the implementation of campaigns against specific KPIs and deliverables
Collect weekly reports from SPM (Senior Project Managers), ensure good reporting quality (content, data and overall presentation), share with Account Director prior to submitting to clients
Evaluate campaign progress via regular SWOT analysis and share insights with clients
Generate final reports post campaigns
Maintain good relationships with clients, suppliers and key stake holders
Performance evaluation for operations team reporting to specific account. This includes recommendations for improvement
Present performance evaluations to management on a quarterly basis (1st quarter starts in January 2012)
Brief Account Manager on campaign progress on a regular basis (pro-active measures preferred)
Recommend ways or steps of improving overall project planning, implementation and management
Deliver billing targets assigned to their specific account/s. Progressive billings are an indication of good performance.
Skills & Certification:
Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, or equivalent
Excellent problem solving skills
Client relationship skills
A good attitude with an outgoing personality
Flexibility
Experience:
3 – 5 years’ experience in the area of Marketing
How To Apply:
Interested candidates holding the necessary requirements, good performance and / or references are encouraged to apply with detailed CV’s, inclusive of names and contacts of 3 referees, current telephone number and email address by scrolling down and clicking on: Account Manager