Brand Executive

Key Responsibilities

Administrative / Operational

• Manage the process of projects including resourcing with PMs, as well as submission processes.
• Drive and review plans to ensure work is delivered on time, and according to standard.
• Anticipate roadblocks and adjust timelines / plans accordingly with minimal supervision.

Business Acumen

• Understand scoping of work, mapping of resource requirements and budgets.
• Implement work processes to ensure smooth executions and delivery of costed scope of work

Client Management

• Day-to-day client management, maintaining regular contact with the client to ensure communication flows effectively
• Manage general internal and external communication amongst working team and clients
• Clear understanding and decoding of client feedback and responses required

Strategy

• Understand strategic requirements to assist / provide support to strategy team from general to deep dive desktop research (e.g competitive or industry landscape research, market nuances, audience insights).
• Possess general strategic understanding of overall campaign planning.
• Informed of what’s happening in the client’s industry / business.
• Basic understanding of social / digital platforms, channels, formats, and trends and how these can be developed as part of integrated campaigns.

Creative

• Understand client and creative needs.
• Aware of and appreciate effective and bold creative work.
• Review basic creative work against clients ask to determine if brief has been met.

People Management

• Find solutions to mid-level problems.
• Day-to-day team management on campaign delivery.
• Clear on professional code of conduct within the Agency regulations, policy and culture.

Job Specifications

1. Knowledge and Experiences Required

• Minimum 1-3 years’ experience in the advertising industry
• Understanding of the overall business operations, needs, challenges and objectives

2. Skills Required

• Planning and organizational skills
• Communication and interpersonal skills
• Time management
• Resourcefulness
• Detail-oriented
• Ability to work effectively in a team
• Commercial awareness

3. Attributes

• Committed– whatever it takes attitude
• Team player
• Pro-active
• Reliable with positive attitude
• Hungry for more – driving / striving
• Passionate
• Exhilarated by change –pushing and thinking about what’s next
• Easy to engage with and engages with others as well
• Open to feedback and acts on it accordingly and quickly
• Disruptive in their thinking and approach to problem solving