Account Manager
4 hours ago
singapore
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Full-time
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Job Description
As an Account Manager at AKA Asia, you’ll drive day‑to‑day client relationships, lead integrated campaigns, and manage cross‑functional teams to deliver bold, insight‑led work that gets people talking. You’ll be a key contact for clients, ensuring projects run smoothly from strategy through execution, across PR, digital, and social.
Responsibilities Client Handling- Provide sound advice to clients on achieving PR objectives and goals
- Put together a timeline of agreed activity for sign off by your AD and client
- Set proper client expectations and develop achievable KPIs
- Maintain discipline in the team on delivery against agreed timelines
- Maintain strong client relationships through regular contact (phone and face‑to‑face)
- Monitor issues relevant to client’s business
- Keep up to date on your client’s industry especially competitor activity
- Ensure ongoing and strong dialogue with AD to ensure smooth running of account
- Review all major deliverables from AEs to ensure quality standards and expectations are met
- Mentor junior team to success by coaching them on both technical and soft skills – keep morale, motivation and confidence levels up
- Proactively pursue opportunities for account growth and new business
- Play an active role in proposal development – turning insights into strategy, brainstorm, pitch document creation, presentation
- Seek out opportunities to grow our business through Digital and Design Stakeholder engagement (media, bloggers, influencers, employees, groups etc.)
- Train AE on stakeholder engagement and help them establish relationships
- Drive creation of materials for approval by AD
- Track progress and suggest ways to improve efficiency and effectiveness
- Liaise with senior stakeholder contacts and find networking opportunities
- Facilitate meetings/interviews with key spokespeople
- Prepare briefing notes and be responsible for follow-up actions
- Have sound and current knowledge of social media/digital platforms
- Develop social media strategy and content plans
- Leverage current events to identify social media opportunities for clients
- Manage and own relationships with external partners to develop content
- Showcase and propose how our design capabilities can help our clients
- Flag to ADs if current budgets don’t match as plans are being executed
- 4 -7 years in the PR industry
- Excellent writing skills
- Articulate in presenting ideas and plans
- Participated in new business pitches
- Managed (up and down) to deliver outstanding work
- Shown clear ability to manage timelines and executions