Agentur: UM
Funktion: Client Services
Standort: Sydney, Australia
Job Ref#: 16504
Beschreibung und Anforderungen
Zusammenfassung der Position
The Client Manager is responsible for inspiring the client team and being a trusted adviser to our clients. As the main point of contact for the Marketing team you are an expert in managing multiple client stakeholders and delivering exceptional service. The Client Manager will lead a portfolio of brands working in close collaboration with the Client Services team.
You will have strong strategic planning skills in managing multiple brands of a similar scale. Leading the UM planning process on all key briefs, you will ensure campaigns are executed seamlessly and innovatively, along with client KPIs being met. Equally you will be charged with team functionality and performance management, leading best practice in more effective and efficient ways of working.
You are the day-to-day client lead and you keep your Group Director ahead of the game with your category expertise, status updates and proactive guidance. You are an authority on the client business to UM. You are an authority on UM and Mediabrands business to the client. You are providing advice continually and being seen as a trusted advisor to them and their goals.
Schlüsselverantwortlichkeiten
- Responsible for delivering positive client satisfaction scores.
- Responsible for leading the client relationship through all interactions.
- Create, lead and manage the work-back schedules for all briefs. Ownership of the activity overview with weekly updates to the Group Director.
- Quality control of the connections planning process and being part of the final sign-off on the connections plan with ultimate responsibility laying with the Group Director.
- Constant consideration to awards approach and tracking campaign results.
- Responsible for an allocation of the client remuneration structure with your Group Director.
- Expert in the client contract inclusions and what is not considered within contract.
- Commercial part responsibility of group budgets and the business drivers in achieving these budgets.
- Develop proactive solutions that deliver against client business objectives.
- Ownership of the financial reconciliation process and contract commercials.
Gewünschte Fähigkeiten und Erfahrungen
- Multi-category communications experience.
- Ability to professionally manage client push back at a senior client level when required.
- Excellent presentation and communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to manage a productive and happy project team and provide visibility to Group Director.
- Self-starter and ablility to work autonomously.
- Works well under pressure and maintains composure, positively influencing others.
- Ability to track client revenue and provide updates to senior management.
- Develops effective business plans with your Group Director.
- Results focused and sets high goals for self and others.
- Comfortable in challenging status-quo with the client, ensuring client receives the best results.
Über uns
A full-service media agency, UM strives to Futureproof our clients’ businesses through our relentless pursuit of better science, art and outcomes. Founded in 1999, UM is made up of entrepreneurially-minded strategists, planners, researchers, investment experts, decision scientists, account executives, and content and activation specialists—over 4,800 employees across 130 offices in over 100 countries around the world. A part of IPG Mediabrands, UM’s global headquarters are in New York, with six additional US offices in Birmingham, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, and San Francisco. UM's vision to Futureproof our clients for today, tomorrow, and beyond wouldn’t be possible without our Better People.
UM’s culture is an inclusive one, where people belong and are encouraged to bring their full selves to the office, and where personal and professional growth are a priority of every member of the team. UM’s Executive Leadership Team is dedicated to building a culture that permeates every element of the company, from work flexibility, to career planning and regular talent reviews, to an active culture club. They proudly uphold the following values:
Courage: Our courage to take risks drives our ability to set new industry standards.
Curiosity: Our relentless curiosity drives relentless innovation.
Commitment: Our commitment to uncovering better opportunities for our clients and our community is at the heart of everything we do.
Community: We pride ourselves on fostering a community where everyone can belong while actively giving back to the communities in which we live.
Caring: We care about being a diverse agency where everyone feels motivated and supported.
Candor: Our candor through open and constructive dialogue ensures better outcomes for our people and our clients.
As a company, UM is constantly pushing to improve, under their Better Science, Better Art, Better Outcomes banner, striving to set the bar in the ever-evolving media landscape. Their efforts have yielded a number of new business wins recently including Aetna, American Express, Columbia Sportswear, Gallo Wine, Henkel, and Quicken Loans.