Associate Account Manager/Account Manager - Public Relations - Advertising Firm

Account Manager - Public Relations

- The role of Associate Account Manager (AAM) or Account Manager (AM) exists to manage the day to day PR activities for three-five clients; from ideation and planning to execution, and finally reporting.

- The AAM/AM will work independently or with guidance from AD/Branch Head/CEO to prepare a monthly or quarterly PR plan for the client; and then will work with a team of junior resources to execute that plan and finally present the evaluation and review to the client.

- She will also act as Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for the client. Internally, she is responsible for managing, training, mentoring and nurturing the junior team members and helping them grow professionally.

- AMs will also play a role in pitching for new clients. They may directly work on proposals or pitch decks, or support a senior team member with research, ideas and slides.

The key responsibilities for this role include :

Client Servicing & Account Management :

- Develop thorough understanding of client's business and PR requirements

- Developing Quarterly or Monthly PR plans for clients in Evoc's standardised format

- Ensuring regular tracking and full delivery on all client deliverables

- Ensuring high-quality of service delivery: all content, other documents, emails, reports etc. should uphold the Evoc's standards

- Ensuring all Evoc processes are followed without fail

- Ensuring all deadlines are honoured and tracked

Team management :

- Nurturing and growing a self-sufficient and high-performance team

- Ensuring that team member appraisals are conducted on time

- Managing team's workload is distributed effectively - giving reasonable deadlines and tracking progress made; no team member should be overworked OR underworked

Media Relations :

- Develop thorough understanding of ever changing media environment

- Ensuring development of key media relations for and on behalf of respective clients

- Creating and nurturing high-level media contacts across key organizations

- Help the team grow their media relations consistently

Key skills we are looking for :

- Exceptional written, verbal and presentation skills

- Intellectual ability to understand and link client's business and PR objectives with both strategic and tactical PR activities

- Project management skills, particularly suitable in an agency environment

- Outstanding people and interpersonal skill