Middle East Communication Network Hiring for Account Executive – Consumer Job at Dubai Full Time

An Associate will demonstrate solid and well-rounded communication skills, such as writing, media placement and client relationships. You will have a basic understanding of the role of digital and will be starting to gain experience across implementation of digital strategy, including community management and content production. An Associate will also be developing an understanding of market trends and issues as they affect client business.

SMART Working Practices

• Time management – prioritising your own workload to ensure you meet deadlines and objectives set by account managers and directors for each client – within the time allocated – and reporting to team members on progress. You will be given precise hours per month for each account that you work on
• Timesheet Management – Ensure that your timesheets are completed on a timely basis and inline with contractual requires
• Working to activity plans – attending status meetings to ensure you understand client objectives and deadlines. Planning own work and meets all commitments against activity plans

Team Working

• Working within a team – ensuring team involvement and communication at all times
• Motivation – demonstrating energy and enthusiasm to ongoing workload and projects. Your commitment and loyalty to the company will be unquestionable. Your motivation to work well in a team environment will be demonstrated through your strong communication style with fellow colleagues
• Briefing/informing the team – taking briefs from client and communicating goals, guidelines, and deadlines to team
• Communicating with supervisors to ensure they are updated on work in progress and briefed when having difficulty achieving required results. You are also keen to listen to other members of the team and value their input on client related issues
• Ability to audit social media channels and provide a first draft point of view and manage communities
• Support teams in the creation of ideas and delivery of content e.g. infographics

Client Relations

• Client management – building solid relationships with assigned client contacts. Demonstrate a proactive stance with all assigned accounts by offering new ideas and new ways of generating success, including identifying digital opportunities. Provide tactical counsel to all clients. Ensure that you make yourself available to the client and build strong liaisons with them
• Market knowledge – actively working to create a good knowledge of current developments and trends affecting the clients’ industries and markets
• Analysing problems – anticipating and identifying problems relating to client work. Pre-empts issues that may arise and prepare to action appropriately

Communication Skills

• Digital – Demonstrate a clear understanding of our digital capabilities and how to apply them to client work iincluding (but not restricted to):
• Social hearing
• Influencer mapping
• Community management
• Social media relations
• Digital/social strategy
• Search optimisation
• Writing – an Associate will have the ability to write in a range of styles including news releases, case studies, status reports, articles and proposals
• Media liaison – dealing with day to day enquiries; acting professionally when meeting the press at exhibitions and client events; establishing and building relationships; ensuring copy is prepared, approved and submitted in line with deadlines; researching and writing copy for features; writing and following up photo-call notices; closing the loop with all press opportunities
• Media pitching – with a proactive style to developing your media liaisons, including a thorough approach to making calls and understanding the clients, products, services, and values, you will confidently “sell in” material across a broad range of media finding new story angles where possible
• Key Contacts – you will be expected to develop third party contacts which are relevant to your sector and or role. For example, suppliers, government relations, media and financial analysts and expert opinion leaders
• Quality standards – producing high standard of work at all times, paying attention to detail and removing the possibility of careless errors. The Associate will also work to maintain all company quality standards continually looking for areas of improvement
• Presentation skills – learning basic to intermediate presentation skills and taking an active role in presentations wherever possible
• Ability to research across a clients digital footprint e.g. websites, social media, google results and provide a 1st pass point of view
• Ability to understand SEO and identify content which is not optimized for search

Knowledge and Skills

• Digital channels – have knowledge of the role of social media channels in PR and how to best utilise each channel to the clients benefit
• Understands why digital content is key to PR strategies and how it drives reach
• Client market understanding – maintaining a high understanding of client’s business, new developments in the market/industry sector and use them to the client’s advantage
• Using technology – using software packages, the internet and research facilities to obtain relevant information
• Analysis and assimilation of current affairs – build general knowledge of the world as it impacts the client – gained through reading the nationals and keeping up to date on current affairs
• Interest in and preferred ability to use Facebook insights, Google analytics and other SM monitoring /listening tools
• Ability to research online influencers and provide a first pass for the team
• Digital audit – active on Facebook, LinkedIn and twitter – aware of Google+, Vine and Pinterest.

Agency Contribution

• Attending and contributing constructively to internal company meetings
• Being supportive of Weber Shandwick and our vision generally. Being responsible enough to take any problems to your superiors rather than discussing issues in open forum
• Living the vision and values of Weber Shandwick and acting as an Ambassador at all times
• Contributing towards Weber Social Media Strategy

This list outlines the key areas of responsibility within your role. However, this is not an exhaustive list and you may be required from time to time to undertake other duties and responsibilities as and when required, in order to effectively perform in your role.