Senior Associate, Client Partnership at Red Media Africa (RED)

Red Media Africa (RED) is Africa's leading omni-media company with a focus on the youth. We are a network of premium media companies with a prominent development affiliate called The Future Project, owners of The Future Africa Awards & Summit.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Associate, Client Partnership

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Scope of the Job

• Develop and deliver quality ideas (together with a team) on clients’ accounts to ensure 100% Client Retention and happiness.
• Pitch new ideas and engage in strategy sessions with clients.
• Upsell clients with ideas.

Main Duties and Key Responsibilities

• Build and/or maintain client relationships at the highest standard of professionalism.
• Must be pro-actively involved in current client activities; able to identify opportunities to organically grow business with current accounts; and able to identify potential risks and take appropriate action to retain or renew business.
• Help clients demonstrate the value of PR within their own organizations.
• Develop result-oriented strategic plans and lead ideation efforts to expand programs, resulting in maximum client satisfaction as well as in increasing agency revenues.
• Mentor junior team members in the areas of strategic planning, editorial content development, ideation of content and media relations.
• Prepare and manage client campaign budgets to keep costs within clients' budget, within agreed deliverables, while ensuring that target agency revenues are met and that non-billable expenses are kept minimal.
• Develop original PR content for agency clients, including stories, scripts, and other forms of multimedia communication materials.
• Social media monitoring and community management.
• Coordinate social media influencers and advocates.
• Working directly with creatives, brand strategists, project managers, producers, and other associates on assigned projects.
• Participate in new business development efforts i.e. active involvement in creating pitch decks and presentations.
• Work with digital and email marketing teams to ensure campaigns are optimized for best ROI.
• Monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness and success of PR and digital marketing efforts.
• Perform all other duties assigned to you by your Manager and the Chief Consulting Officer.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s / Master’s Degree in relevant field.
• At least five (5) years’ experience working in a creative agency/media space
• Ability to analyse and interpret briefs using creative ideas.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• Excellent team player.

Remuneration
NGN 250,000 - NGN 300,000 / Monthly.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.