Careers

Account Representative

Job Description

As a professional and energetic Account Representative you will act as a link between clients and the agency and provide marketing support for the agency. As a suave account liaison you will be responsible for coordinating between the client and other agency staff to carry out project work.

You will be expected to liaise closely with our clients throughout the duration of their projects, often on a daily basis to manage administrative and project work, ensuring that this is all completed on time and budget.

Code of Conduct

• Employee should be open for communication with colleagues
• Employee should be friendly and collaborative
• Employee should respect their colleagues
• Employee should not misuse company equipment
• Employee should show integrity and professionalism
• Employee should follow company dress code
• Employee should fulfill their job duties

Requirements

• Ability to write structured formal emails
• Ability to take the initiative to build good relationships with clients in the absence of account manager
• Motivated and willingness to learn
• Excellent planning and organizing skills
• Fluency in English; Arabic preferred but not necessary
• Computer literacy: Microsoft applications (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
• Prospecting and developing new client relationships within a defined geography or market
• Consulting with clients on business issues and research design
• Developing innovative proposals and delivering strategic sales presentations
• Making actionable and insightful recommendations for new products, extensions, or enhancements
• Project management skills; will have demonstrated the ability to push projects over the finish line with sound planning and persistent execution; will understand how to align resources, seek the input of key constituents, and manage others to achieve desired results
• Open and collaborative style; must be comfortable working in an environment where ideas are shared and challenged
• Energy and enthusiasm; candidates must find the work "fun" and enjoy being accountable and willing to hold others accountable

Duties and responsibilities:
Client Management

• Meeting and liaising with clients to discuss and identify their design/ PR/ marketing requirements
• Working with agency colleagues to devise a plan of action that meets the client's brief and budget
• Presenting in a formal proposal the ideas and budget to the client
• Working with colleagues to assist with the formulation of marketing strategies
• Liaising with, and acting as the link between, the client and agency by maintaining regular contact with both, ensuring that communication flows effectively
• Negotiating with clients and agency staff about the details of projects
• Presenting creative work to clients for approval or modification
• Structured conceptualization of ideas and concepts
• Writing client reports
• Monitoring the effectiveness of campaigns.
• Meet with clients to discuss goals, objectives, and needs
• Invoice clients
• Kick off campaign

Event Management

• Attend agency related events when required, during and outside of working hours
• Working on event management and ensuring deadlines and budgets are adhered to
  • Book venues
  • Work on attendance
  • Come up with concepts for the event, giveaways and invitation cards
  • Ensure day of event goes smoothly
  • Manage 3rd parties
  • Building RSVP lists
  • Souring items for the event, from stores across Bahrain during and outside working hours
  • Coordination with the team, press, guests, etc.

PR

• Identify public relations requirements and possible audiences.
• Devise PR campaign.
• Brief media, creative and research staff.
• Formulate marketing strategies.
• Maintain regular contact with both PR staff and clients.
• Negotiate fees and hourly rates.
• Get approval for promotional work.
• Write articles and press releases.
• Schedule advertisements for publications.

General

• Undertaking administration tasks as needed
• Arranging and attending meetings
• Making 'pitches', along with other agency staff, to try to win new business for the agency
• Overseeing key projects, processes and performance reports, data and analysis
• Negotiates contracts with consulting firms to perform research or other applicable studies or support
• Plans and formulates aspects of research and development proposals such as objective or purpose of project, applications that can be utilized from findings, costs of project, and equipment and human resource requirements
• Set deadlines
• Get budgets and ideas approved
• Handle budgets and manage campaign costs
• Create focus groups
• Identify new clients
• Participate in creating and presenting pitches
• Communicate and build marketing campaigns with business owners.
• Prospect, negotiate and close agreements
• Sell multi-media advertising
• Create marketing plans
• Ensure revenue goals are met
• Take initiative

To apply simply fill out the form below and upload your CV.

Social Media Analyst

Job Description

The Social Media Analyst will implement the agency’s Social Media marketing. Administration includes content strategy, develop brand awareness, generate inbound traffic and cultivate leads and sales. The Social Media Analyst is a highly motivated individual with experience and a passion for designing and implementing the agency’s content strategy, creating relevant content, blogging, community participation and leadership.

Code of Conduct

• Employee should be open for communication with colleagues
• Employee should be friendly and collaborative
• Employee should respect their colleagues
• Employee should not misuse company equipment
• Employee should show integrity and professionalism
• Employee should follow company dress code
• Employee should fulfill their job duties

Responsibilities

1. Manage Social Media marketing campaign and day-to-day activities including:
   • Curate relevant content to reach the company’s ideal customers
   • Create, curate, and manage all published content (images, video and written)
   • Monitor, listen and respond to users in a “Social” way while cultivating leads and sales
   • Conduct online advocacy and open stream for cross-promotions
   • Develop and expand community and/or blogger outreach efforts
   • Design, create and manage promotions and social media ad campaigns
   • Compile report for management showing results (ROI)
   • Go to events from time-to-time to cover events on social media platforms
2. Become an advocate for the Company in Social Media space, engaging in dialogues and answering questions where appropriate
3. Demonstrate ability to map out marketing strategy and then drive that strategy proven by testing and metrics
4. Develop a strategy and implement a proactive process for capturing customer online reviews. Monitor online ratings and respond accordingly
5. Monitor trends in Social Media tools, applications, channels, design and strategy
6. Identify threats and opportunities in user-generated content surrounding the business. Report notable threats to appropriate management.
7. Analyze campaigns and translate anecdotal or qualitative data into recommendations and plans for revising the Social Media campaigns
   • Monitor affective benchmark (best practices) for measuring the impact of Social Media campaigns. Analyze, review, and report on effectiveness of campaigns in an effort to maximize results
8. Respond to customers comments and inquires in no more than 12 hours
9. Present weekly articles on Social Media Platforms
10. Prepare Social Media reports on the top trends
11. Ensure that Social Media accounts are up to date with the necessary information.
12. Visit client’s premises to do live coverage
13. Analyze use engagement (e.g. number of followers, comments and likes)
14. Work closely with other team members to meet client goals
15. Provide analysis and recommendations on which platform is more effective
16. Research and administer social media tools on a daily basis in support of clients’ social media strategy

To apply simply fill out the form below and upload your CV.

Account Manager

Job Description

As a professional and energetic Account Manager you will act as a link between clients and the agency and provide marketing support for the agency. As a suave account liaison you will be responsible for coordinating between the client and other agency staff to carry out project work. You will be expected to liaise closely with our clients throughout the duration of their projects, often on a daily basis to manage administrative and project work, ensuring that this is all completed on time and budget. As our Strategic Planning manager in Corporate Strategy & Development (CSD), you'll assist in the development and execution of Obai and Hill’s long-term growth strategy. You'll conduct project related work, to support senior executives at the Agency. You'll provide research and analytical support on cross-functional special project teams that identify, evaluate and analyze critical strategic priorities and/or strategic problems, and catalyze action against these priorities. In addition, you'll also assist in the identification, due diligence, financial modeling, valuation and execution of business development and related opportunities for Obai and Hill.

Code of Conduct

• Employee should be open for communication with colleagues
• Employee should be friendly and collaborative
• Employee should respect their colleagues
• Employee should not misuse company equipment
• Employee should show integrity and professionalism
• Employee should follow company dress code
• Employee should fulfill their job duties

Requirements

• Strong communication and people skills is a must
• Ability to build good relationships with clients
• Motivated and willingness to learn
• Excellent planning and organizing skills
• Fluency in English; Arabic preferred but not necessary
• Computer literacy: Microsoft applications (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
• Achieving assigned sales targets
• Prospecting and developing new client relationships within a defined geography or market
• Consulting with clients on business issues and research design
• Developing innovative proposals and delivering strategic sales presentations
• Making actionable and insightful recommendations for new products, extensions, or enhancements
• Managing and mentoring a team of account representatives.
• Project management skills; will have demonstrated the ability to push projects over the finish line with sound planning and persistent execution; will understand how to align resources, seek the input of key constituents, and manage others to achieve desired results
• Open and collaborative style; must be comfortable working in an environment where ideas are shared and challenged
• Energy and enthusiasm; candidates must find the work "fun" and enjoy being accountable and willing to hold others accountable

Account Management - Duties and responsibilities:

• Meeting and liaising with clients to discuss and identify their design/ PR/ Marketing requirementsWorking with agency colleagues to devise a plan of action that meets the client's brief and budget;
• Working with colleagues to assist with the formulation of marketing strategies
• Liaising with, and acting as the link between, the client and agency by maintaining regular contact with both, ensuring that communication flows effectively
• Negotiating with clients and agency staff about the details of projects
• Writing client reports
• Undertaking administration tasks as needed.
• Arranging and attending meetings.
• Making 'pitches', along with other agency staff, to try to win new business for the agency
• Overseeing key projects, processes and performance reports, data and analysis
• Negotiates contracts with consulting firms to perform research or other applicable studies or support
• Plans and formulates aspects of research and development proposals such as objective or purpose of project, applications that can be utilized from findings, costs of project, and equipment and human resource requirements
• Meet with clients to discuss goals, objectives, and needs
• Identify public relations requirements and possible audiences
• Kick off campaign
• Get budgets and ideas approved
• Brief media, creative, and research staff
• Formulate marketing strategies
• Maintain regular contact with both PR staff and clients
• Negotiate fees and hourly rates
• Get approval for promotional work
• Handle budgets and manage campaign costs
• Invoice clients
• Write detailed reports
• Create focus groups
• Identify new clients
• Participate in creating and presenting pitches
• Communicate and build marketing campaigns with business owners
• Prospect, negotiate and close agreements
• Sell multi-media advertising
• Create marketing plans
• Schedule advertisements for publications
• Ensure revenue goals are met
• Attend agency related events when required

Strategic Planning - Duties and responsibilities:

• Structure problems, develop execution plan and manage process of evaluating each strategic/analytical initiative.
• Conduct high level creative thinking and strategic visioning.
• Lead efforts to retrieve, analyze and build financial/economic models to develop strategic insights and evaluate business problems
• Lead efforts to obtain qualitative insights and integrate with analytical findings to develop insights. Synthesize and effectively communicate findings, and cause the enterprise to act appropriately to capture the value in such findings
• Communicates and oversee cross functional or company-wide initiatives
• Lead cross-functional, global teams for successful project execution with ability to motivate and influence individuals beyond her/his direct field of control
• Influences executives regarding strategy to achieve business objectives
• Support key executives in ad-hoc requests and strategy communication
• Gather & analyze data, information, and research (e.g., market data, competitive analysis, advertiser/consumer research, etc.) through quantitative and qualitative mechanisms to make decisions on critical strategic issues
• Develop financial models and analyses to size the revenue and profit impact of initiatives
• Produce PowerPoint documents in support of strategy and M&A projects, Board of Directors meetings, etc.
• Assist with project management and communications including timeline/milestones, deliverables, etc.

Creative Content Creator - Duties and responsibilities:

• Create content such as social media messages and press release
• Accountable for all content marketing initiatives to drive traffic, engagement, leads, that deliver sales and customer retention
• Participate in planning and strategizing for inbound marketing campaign execution including content, content schedule, platforms and measurements
• Generate new ideas and opportunities to ensure client success
• To understand client objectives and contribute to campaign strategy with creative, innovative ideas
• Presenting creative work to clients for approval or modification
• Present campaign ideas to client
• Provide creative branding support

To apply simply fill out the form below and upload your CV.