Job Description

Wasserman is forever committed to serving our clients, colleagues and community with exceptional insight, influence and creativity, while making a positive and lasting impact. We support our employees' professional aspirations, with a rich internal culture where curiosity is rewarded. We offer our people multiple learning and development programs throughout the world. What we do is fast-paced, exciting and rewarding which is why we love it and why you'll love life at Wasserman.

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WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

The Account Director will sit within the Digital and Data department within CSM Middle East, based in either Abu Dhabi or Dubai.

Our key focus as a department is to combine digital and data with the passion of sport and entertainment to deliver performance marketing solutions that enhance the fan experience. We are a team of passionate, creative, and innovative experts from all around the globe who are revolutionising the digital sponsorship industry.

The successful Account Director candidate will lead two of our key, retained clients in the Middle East and manage the day to day delivery by the account team, as well as owning the key relationship with clients and building strong, long lasting relationships across the board.

This is a great opportunity for a candidate who has a strong entrepreneurial outlook, tenacious and proactive, with a passion for sport and keen to join a rapidly growing digital sports marketing agency. We are looking for a bright, energetic and creative thinker with exceptional attention to detail and shows initiative each and every day. Someone who is enthusiastic about digital marketing and excited to be a part of driving our business forward.

As a growing business, the Account Director will need to have a passion for growing and developing teams that are built around trust and open communication - driving people to be their best and caring about individuals' learning and development goals to ensure we have a team that represents the best in our industry.

Our team, across three offices (UK, UEA and Hong Kong) offers a stimulating environment with genuinely rewarding work, lots of responsibility and the opportunity for significant progression within a growing part of the Wasserman business.

This role will report into the Head of Client Service.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE: Management of key relationships with clients, rights holders and our partners Thorough understanding of client KPIs and budget parameters Demonstrate clear commercial acumen across costings, understanding of margins and impacts on cost of sale to the business overall EBITDA Overseeing the reporting and evaluation on each campaign and/or client business reviews Strive to meet client KPI's and ensure all activity is effectively measured by the team Deliver clear and concise internal and external presentations/reports Continually seek cost saving measures and opportunities to drive efficiencies across the business Pursue opportunities to grow business - especially on the key owned retainer clients Manage team members, ensuring that tasks are being completed correctly, efficiently and timely Stay up-to-date with digital technology trends Driving new business/pitch response opportunities in terms of strategy and content, through to building out scope of work and costings documents Regular interactions with Associate Director to ensure client goals are managed consistently Demonstrate appropriate behaviours, conduct and professionalism in all inter-personal, written and verbal communications Track time and financial expenses on a day-to-day basis

THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE YOU NEED 5-6 years of digital marketing experience - agency experience strongly preferred A strong understanding of current digital marketing landscape and trends Clear, confident communicator with exceptional project management skills Extremely organised and strong work ethic and ability to multi-task Ability to keep calm in a fast-paced environment with tight project deadlines Proficient in MS Excel - ability to structure and develop quantitative excel models and analysis to generate data-driven results and recommendations Proficient in MS PowerPoint - ability to create high quality presentations that tell a story around data and not just the stats and figures on a page Proficient in Adobe Photoshop and Google Analytics Experience working with CRM platforms Understanding and interest of the sports industry is preferred

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Wasserman does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.

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