Group Head, Business Management at Centrespread

Job Overview

The Group Head, Business Management, in addition to prospecting for new businesses, oversees the Business Management team, ensures that there is a clear distribution of work load, and acts as a link between the clients and the agency. Alongside the entire team, s/he ensures that the agency meets the client’s needs and works with all the key functions that go into creating the agency’s advertising output.

Key Duties

Consulting

• Actively engage the clients in collaboration with other departments.
• Actively seek opportunities for growing the agency’s business, build its franchise with current clients and enhance the agency’s creative and brand building reputation, in conjunction with other departments
• Contribute to strategic thinking and provides input and added value to client work.

Creative

• Help the Creative Team develop in-depth knowledge of the client’s strategic issues and give actionable advice for improvements, for adaptation, as well as onward creative development.
• Evaluates creative work to ensure that it is in accordance with the brief and the strategic needs of the brand.

Client Relationship Management

• Responsible for satisfying the client needs while maintaining agency efficiency and account profitability.

People Management

• Ensure team spirit among team members.
• Ensure high quality of associates’ work and provide them with training on the job as appropriate.
• Distribute and allocate tasks and set priorities for all accounts.

Qualification & Experience

• B.Sc in Mass Communication, Marketing or related discipline
• 8 10 years’ progressive work experience with at least two as Head, Account/Business Management.

Skills

• Ability to prioritise key accounts
• Strong research skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (written and verbal)
• Solid knowledge of budgeting and costing
• Excellent interpersonal and people Management skill
• Analytical mind with a strategic thinking ability
• Persuasion and influencing skill
• Strong business acumen