Job for Mid Level Account Manager in South Africa March 2025
Penquin – Mid Level Account Manager job in Johannesburg, Bramley March 2025
| Remuneration: | R20000 – R23000 per month Cost to company |
| Benefits: | Cellphone allowance |
| Location: | Johannesburg, Bramley |
| Education level: | Diploma |
| Job level: | Junior/Mid |
| Own transport required: | Yes |
| Travel requirement: | Occasional |
| Type: | Permanent |
| Reference: | #AMMar17 |
Job description
Penquin is a results driven full advertising agency that helps our clients sell more products to more people more often.
Overview
The ideal account manager in our client service team is a highly sales driven, passionate, collaborative, outgoing, creative oriented leader. The right candidate will demonstrate the following skills and take on the below responsibilities.
The main function of the role:
Client management:
- Work closely with the relevant Account Director to ensure overall growth and development of client accounts allocated.
- Meeting profit goals on each account responsible for.
- Liaising with clients at a senior level on a day-to-day basis, including the taking of briefs, discussing strategy and future opportunities and general client communication.
- Delivering sales presentations to high-level executives.
- Promoting the expansion of business with existing clients.
- Working with other senior managers to generate new accounts.
- Completing projects with the production team to a specific schedule and within an agreed budget.
- Using your skills to push clients, and the agency, creatively and strategically.
- Responsible for all aspects of client’s advertising, marketing and events needs, working closely with the production team with regard to the planning, delivery and post event or campaign wrap up.
- Ability to attend client meetings, take a brief and develop strategy and creative solutions.
- Develop lasting relationships with senior client personnel and using Penquin senior management as required to cement relationships at a senior level.
- Applies knowledge of industry trends and developments to improve service to our clients.
- Compile competitor reviews and present feedback and recommendations to clients.
- Taking a lead in clients’ marketing and advertising strategies.
Project management:
- Quality control – ensuring the account team adhere to internal systems and guidelines, and a high quality of communication is maintained internally and externally.
- Ability to research new concepts and prepare presentations, project justification and business cases.
- Seeks and participates in development opportunities above and beyond required training.
Active involvement in growth of other team members in the company:
- A climate of sharing is to become part and parcel of the client services team and production team, creative team and the strategy team, should have the opportunity to brainstorm ideas, when appropriate and collaborate with all teams when necessary.
- Should be open in sharing his/her knowledge and should also be open to the input of other teams within the organisation.
- Proactive in making time to spend with other staff in order to transfer skills, discuss projects, brainstorm ideas, attend meetings and the like, when necessary.
Experience level:
- Two to three years of marketing and sales experience on an account manager level in an advertising agency.
Company Description
Penquin is a results driven full advertising agency that helps our clients sell more products to more people more often.
Requirements
Core skills and talents:
- Have a passion for client service and new business development and wanting to go out and assist to pitch to new clients.
- A sound understanding of marketing and advertising disciplines, and knowledge of branding/brand positioning/brand valuation theory.
- Articulate, with stature and credibility. A sense of presence, and sufficiently articulate to persuade others. A very able presenter on all levels.
- Ability to think laterally and analytically.
- An eclectic approach to problem solving, with the ability to be both rigorously analytical as well as intuitive.
- A profound curiosity about the sales and creative process and consumer behaviour and the implications for how we communicate.
- Ability to turn a knowledge of how consumers think into ideas that will build their interest in and involvement with brands.
In overview, a successful account manager in our client service team is a highly results driven person, an aspiring strategic thinker that can assist in building client brands and business.
Advantageous
- Experience across various marketing and advertising disciplines, e.g. print, events, digital, radio, TV, activations and sales.
- An understanding and knowledge of latest marketing and advertising trends.
Personal Skills/Attributes
- Ability to stay calm under pressure
- Problem solver
- Level headed team player
- Proactive with excellent people management skills
- Manage stress
- Deadline and time line driven
- Assertive with the ability to communicate clearly and concisely and be willing to take ownership of projects
- Attention to detail is essential
Strong team player with a willingness to always test the boundaries and push themselves to new heights.
Contact details
Annemie Burger
Penquin
0118791900
annemieb@penquin.co.za