Account Manager  Full Time

Established in 2004, OLIVER is the world’s first and only specialist in designing, building, and running bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries and counting. Our unique model drives creativity and efficiency, allowing us to deliver tailored solutions that resonate deeply with audiences.

Role: Account Manager (FTC – 12 months) – with Arabic & English

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

What you will be doing:

• Understand the importance of brands and working within brand guidelines.   A deep understanding of the business; their needs, expectations and requirements in order to provide the best service and solution through close partnership in the key market.
• Experience with global creative toolkits, market adaptations, and localisations.
• The pro-actively own and manage local client engagement and relationship management.
• Effective project management through the full lifecycle using project governance as directed by the client – receiving and interrogating briefs, attending and driving regular client and internal status meetings, escalating issues and proactively resolving problems, managing project resource and spend and making critical decisions.
• The ability to drive and motivate a team and project through to successful completion.
• Run account meetings and take responsibility for service levels and KPIs.
• Work closely with clients to create strong concepts from initial briefing. Understanding the local nuances to their local markets.
• You will be working with our global stakeholders and providing insightful feedback. This role is key for connecting global and local teams.
• Work closely with production leads and creatives to develop a brief from beginning to end.
• You ideally need to come from a background in production with a strong delivery background. You should already understand the process and nuances for delivery high volumes of adaptation work.
• Growing strong relationships with the different agencies, including their, creative origination agencies, media agencies, printers etc. Being the central point to ensure we get the work from the creative agencies on time and deliver the media agencies and printers to their timelines.
• A strong passion for sport and particularly for the client’s brand.
• Ideally a strong background in a retail environment, both online and offline.

What you will be doing:

• The ability to manage both individual and project workloads and identifying challenges and risks within them. You will work with your Jr. Account Director on mitigation and solutions to ensure we deliver to brief.
• Executional rigour, competent in multitasking and great organisational skills.
• The ability to combine and translate complex material from different sources and contexts
• into stories and content that engage and resonate with in-market target audience.
• Competent in presenting and communicating ideas to clients.
• Experience working with retail/ sports products.
• 3-4 years of relevant experience in:
  • Paid Media
  • Digital & Programmatic
  • Print
  • Social
  • OOH
  • Retail
  • Production
  • Adapting and Activating Toolkits