Senior Account Manager

LPS Brands (www.lps-me.com) is looking for a Senior Account Manager - a client servicing champion, an Arabic first professional and a digital maven with strong high stake relationship building skills and refined creative judgement.

REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

1. 5+ years managerial experience in agencies within the UAE/ Middle East region, for Digital and social media assignments is mandatory.
2. Rich experience and a successful track record with digital or social media first engagements.
3. Proven record of team leadership and account pitch wins.
4. Highly organized and adept at managing multiple client accounts/timelines on a daily basis.
5. Entrepreneurial and constantly looking for business growth and development opportunities.
6. Passion to create engaging and entertaining brand campaigns; looking to outdo oneself on a daily basis.
7. Comfortable working in an aggressive, fast-paced and young startup culture; flexible to work outside office hours on social media requirements; willing to take up all-round business tasks as part of the team; team player; agency experience is preferable.
8. Fluent and particular about the use of English and Arabic grammar.
9. Experience in working on monthly/weekly social media or content plans along with brand team and content creators; first-hand knowledge of the current digital media landscape and social platforms, social content formats like memes, GIFs, trends, vines, stories, live content, scheduling and analytics applications.
10. Agile and flexible to turn around real-time social content/ideas in a short period of time; highly sensitive to timelines and content commitments; comfortable writing large amounts of engaging content on a daily basis.
11. Constant learner, listener, and reader; always looking to upgrade social media, content writing and other support skills.
12. Jack of all trades; open to learning new software/platforms to supplement creative skills.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Account Management Ownership - Directly build and grow value relationships, manage and retain key clients/decision makers and influencers for agency accounts in Creative/Social/Digital.
2. Team Leadership - Supervise a team of managers and executives - account, community, short form content; interface with the creative teams and interns to ensure 360 service delivery on social media management - client strategy, shoot operations, creative direction, platform strategy, posting operations, community growth and management, and reporting.
3. Creative - Provide creative judgement for the agency accounts, and get buy-in for clients; build style guide/voice & tone.
4. Operations - Ensure timely scheduling/posting/community response of social media plans.
5. Deliverables & Performance - Ensure the account deliverables and KPIs for brands are met on a monthly & quarterly level on a first-person responsible basis.
6. Act as an ambassador of the agency and its values, internally and externally.