Account Manager at Acceler8ed Marketing Services

Acceler8ed Marketing Services - We are a marketing support services company with specialization in promotional marketing, sponsorship, merchandising and retail marketing. We deliver end-to-end solutions that will add value, accelerate business growth and ultimately impact profitability positively.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Account Manager

Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Reporting To: Group Head
Supervises: Account Executives and Intern

Overall Purpose Of The Job

• The Account Manager has a passion for service, but with a strong analytical mindset in order to build strong lasting relationships with our most important clients while ensuring they have great operational performance. 
• In addition, the position will also have to be a strong team player and willing to do things outside of the day-to-day activities, acting occasionally as a Project Manager managing the most important accounts, campaigns.

Roles& Responsibilities
Business Development:

• Provide strategic direction for existing client Accounts and grow its profitability.
• Generate at least one business initiative per quarter from existing accounts from distilled information, insights and market intelligence to factor way forward to the next level.
• Identify marketplace opportunities, prospect and engage new clients.
• Initiate strategic and winning ideas for pitch presentation.
• Lead brain storming session for your team.

Financials:

• Strict adherence to campaign budgets, monitor profitability and billings on all projects executed.
• Ensure 100% accuracy of billing and invoicing on all projects executed.
• Follow up and drive prompt payment for all executed projects.
• Maximum outstanding payments kept at 30days.

Client Management:

• Provide the utmost level of client service and liaising with key clients on a day-to-day basis.
• Maximize our services to client by providing strategic approach to how the team service all clients.
• Manage client expectations on all projects executed.
• Ensure 24-hour turnaround by the team after all meetings.
• Promoting the expansion of business with existing client.

Staff Management:

• Grow and mentor staff working directly under you.
• Enforcement of systems and processes in your team.
• Provide motivation and leadership to maximize job performance.
• Ensure effective delegation and management within the team to generate the optimum use of resources to maintain the staff/profitability ratio.

Project Management / Quality Control:

• Develop proposal/plans in response to client’s briefs.
• Develop budgets for all project with corresponding operational budget following Agency stipulated cost margin.
• Responsible for planning, and flawless execution of your projects
• Take responsibility for identifying, monitoring, evaluating and sustaining quality of output and ensure cost objectives are adhered to.
• Work collaboratively with Operations team to meet KPI’s.
• Ensure proper planning with necessary tools for all projects e.g. timelines, work plans, checklist etc.
• Ensure production meetings are held both in-house and with client.
• Ensure training of all field staff with proper briefing and dissemination of all required information e.g. salary breakdown, codes of conduct and most importantly effective communication of brand essence etc.
• Ensure contracts and MOUS are duly signed by all parties with roles and responsibilities where necessary.

Project Reports:

• Ensure debriefs are held at the end of all projects, review reports shared for learnings by all.
• All data capture must be collated and shared with client.
• Ensure case studies are submitted and shared on the server (Shared folder).

Job Specification

• Educational Qualification: A University Degree in Management or in any of the related field.
• Professional Qualification: CIM, APCON will be an added advantage.
• Experience: 3 - 5 years relevant experience in related role.

Key Competencies Required (The skills required for the job):
Technical (Functional) if they differ:

• MS office proficiency; MS Word/ PowerPoint/ Excel
• Excellent verbal & Written Communication Strong analytical, organizational and negotiation skills
• Ability to work in a team environment is critical.
• Ability to multi-task as he/she will be expected to work on multiple engagements/initiatives simultaneously

Managerial Skills (if this is a managerial position):

• Decision-making Skills
• Interpersonal Skills
• Organizational Skills
• Negotiation skills

Behavioral skills:

• Dependability, Integrity, honest, Attention to detail, transparent and faithful.

Application Closing Date
27th May, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover letter to: joy@acceler8edmarketing.com using "Account Manager" as the subject of the email.