Date: 10/05/2010
Office: Amsterdam

Mission

As (global) client’s main contact person, the Account Director fosters a strong relationship built on trust with both the client and internal teams, understands like no other client’s business needs and challenges and Sid Lee business objectives and goals. He/she is responsible for the overall management of global accounts, always strives to push the standards on agency output and maximization of client relationship, ROI and account profitability.

Account Direction
• Direct all aspects related to keeping the client – agency relationship optimal
• Act as gatekeeper and go to person in between agency and clients
• Ensure in depth awareness of the different fields of play (industry, brand etc.) and relaying this information to the team.
• Oversee all stages of project planning, executions and deployment to ensure highest level of quality is always met.
• Assure agency resources are marshaled and effectively applied to the account(s).
• Oversee and direct workflow and progress of assigned teams.

People Management
• Motivate and inspire teams to generate imaginative, innovative work and solutions.
• Establish clear directions, set stretching objectives and define clear tasks for team in a well-planned and organized manner
• Day to day management of team as they relate to client needs, goals and objectives
• Maintain two-way dialogue with team members on expectations and results
• Take responsibility for the growth of account/creative production teams through ongoing mentorship and establishment of career growth plans
• Perform regular reviews and evaluations, including remuneration
• Guard maintenance of healthy workloads

Finance Management
• Ensure accurate and profitable project estimates are shared with clients
• Ensure accurate and timely billing process and debt collecting
• Manage all aspects of retainer setup, including ongoing performance evaluation, creating and sharing timely burn reports and quarterly/annual reviews
• Ensure optimal agency profitability on clients
• Actively search for business development opportunities within existing clients

Strategic Planning/Other
• Lead brand related strategic planning sessions, working closely together with client and internal agency strategy team
• Ensure always being up to date on client strategic goals and objectives
• Always be at the forefront of identifying strategic innovation opportunities
• Actively contribute to local agency management discussion with regards to account/people management related subjects

Competences
• Independent
• Leadership identity
• Strong team player
• Multi-tasking
• Flexible
• Creative thinker
• Hands-on mentality
• Resistant to high levels of stress

Job Requirements
• Fluent in verbal and written English, knowledge of French a pre
• 5+ years international agency experience
• 2+ years experience as an Account Director working with global brands
• Demonstrated interactive experience required
• Knowledge of digital production tools, processes and software
• Thorough understanding and interest of digital technologies, trends and overall field of industry
• Retail Industry experience and building multi-channel digital strategies are a strong plus for this role
• Excellent leadership and mentoring skills managing Account teams
• Strategic understanding of all disciplines of marketing as well as the Client’s business and industry dynamics
• Able to identify innovation opportunities

If you want to apply, please go to Sid Lee

Date: 18/04/2010
Client: Adidas
Mandate: OBC
Leader: Lukas Derksen
Salary range: 90,000 – 135,000 Euros
Availability: 1st May 2010
Office: Amsterdam

Role

As the client’s main contact person, the Group Account Director fosters a strong relationship built on trust with both the client and internal team. He or she must understand clients’ business challenges and define their strategic direction. Respective account consists of a variety of sub accounts managed by multiple account management teams. He or she is responsible for the supervision of these account teams as well participates in a variety of projects, while remaining attune to business development opportunities with existing clients.

Responsibilities
• Supervise multiple account teams; (8+ account executives and coordinators)
• Develop client mandates on time and on budget
• Control client overall global agency and production budgets
• Develop strategies for mandates and apply these strategies at different points of contact
• Analyze and understand the client mandates in terms of their business objectives
• Effectively communicate what mandates require, to creative teams
• Determine resource allocation for each project
• Evaluate and control with help from their team, production costs and schedules
• Closely guide production processes

Professional Skills
• Leadership
• Able to manage stress
• An innovative and solution oriented mindset
• Strong affection with street lifestyle and culture
• Strong ability to analyze, conceptualize and discern
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Strong interactive / digital knowledge
• Ability to establish and maintain a trust-based relationship with clients
• Act as an expert and reference for clients
• Basic legal knowledge for client contracts, production and talent management etc.
• Keen sense of business development

Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field
• 6+ years of experience working in an international agency
• Experience working on international accounts
• Working experience in – and passionate about all channels: from mass communications to digital communications
• Extensive working experience in large scale (1M+) broadcast and electronic productions
• Mastery of English, oral and written (Mastery of French, oral and written is a pre but not mandatory)
• Willing to travel frequently

If you want to apply, please go to Sid Lee

Date: 27/04/2010
Office: Amsterdam

Mission

To manage interactive projects in their entirety, from brief to resource planning, timeline and budget management, managing internal and external agency teams, appreciate client relationships and guard overall process and output, in order to maximize client satisfaction, brand impact and agency profits.

Project Management
• Inherit and apply the company’s standard project development process
• Establish and maintain:
- Estimates and final budgets related to a project
- Necessary resources related to a specific project (internal and external)
- Timelines, milestones and tasks related to the project
- Change requests and planning their integration
• Project planning and production of documentation for all stages of the project
• Maintain a close relationship with project teams and other stakeholders
• Manage and maintain a close relationship with external partners
• Evaluate and resolve problems that may arise during the project
• Search for process improvement and tool suggestion in ongoing attempt for optimization

Account Management
• Manage all relevant aspects related to keeping the client – agency relationship optimal
• Act as gatekeeper and go to person in between agency and clients

Strategic Planning / Innovation
• Participate in brand related strategic planning sessions, working closely together with client and internal agency strategy team
• Always be at the forefront of identifying strategic innovation opportunities

Competences
• Independent
• Multi-tasking
• Strong team player
• Flexible
• Creative thinker
• Hands-on mentality

Job Requirements
• Minimum of 4 years related experience, including at least 2 years as digital producer in international creative agencies or production houses
• Experience in working in an international environment required.
• Bachelor degree, or similar, in interactive media/marketing/communications
• Fluent in verbal and written English, knowledge of Dutch and/or French a plus
• Thorough understanding of digital technologies, trends and overall field of industry
• Knowledge of digital production tools, processes and software
• Ability to manage highly complex digital projects and internal and external agency teams
• Understands project management and creative process
• Able to provide creative vision and direction for projects
• Able to identify innovation opportunities

If you want to apply, please go to Sid Lee

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Mandatories
- Proven experience in working on big brands.
- Language artist
- Excellent communication skills
- Strategically smart
- Entrepreneur that wants to build our business
- Good knowledge of the Dutch and English language
- Ready to rock the world!

Pink and Poodle

Pink and Poodle is a cosmopolitan ad agency with a knack for innovative communication concepts. Our independent Republic of Ideas is based in Amsterdam. We develop and execute strategically sound communication campaigns for companies and causes we believe in. You’ll find us at the crossroads of clear-cut conceptual thinking and state-of-the-art technology. At Pink and Poodle we work from the premise that people are creative and curious by nature. Therefore, it is our mission to respect, provoke and engage the intelligence of our audiences.