- You could be based in Johannesburg or Cape Town for this position

- Degree or Diplomas in Marketing and Management

 Job description

Dynamic, established agency with impressive client roster is looking for a New Business Development Manager to help us grow and expand our client base. You will be responsible for the management and implementation of all new business plans and activities for our agency.

This position will suit an extremely ambitious, self-motivated individual who wants to conquer the world, and build a career and equity stake for them.

Your job will require you to undertake the following tasks and your success will be measured by the income generated by the clients that you have won:

-  Identify and qualify appropriate prospects

-  Make cold calls

-  Prepare and present winning pitches and presentations

-  Win new clients so as to meet Sales, Income, Margin and Client volume targets

-  Manage multiple new business prospect engagements for yourself and key agency executives

-  Attend Industry networking events and conferences

-  Initiate and manage effective relationships with selected, developed leads on an on-going basis

-  Develop and manage prospect database on an on-going basis

-  Tracking and reporting of the new business development pipeline

-  Demonstrate an on-going ability to work collaboratively with agency management and other            agency teams on RFP's, tenders, meetings, presentations, etc.

In order to succeed you will need an

-   Understanding of agency's value proposition, mission, culture, confidentiality, standards, etc.

-   Understanding of Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations and Digital/Social Media

Requirements

-   Proven track record of helping ad agencies (or similar business) secure new business.

-   Previous experience as a member of a New Business team, with a solid track record of landing         new business

-   An effective and proactive networker, with substantial client contacts

-   Extremely strong people skills

-   Ability to very effectively communicate agency capabilities and brand personality to prospects

-   Proven ability to build strong client relationships

-   Ability to represent the agency in a highly professional manner

-   Excellent attention to detail and follow-through

-   Extremely strong written, oral and presentation communication skills

-   Ability to read, write, analyse and interpret information from a variety of sources, such as trade       journals, research reports, white papers and cross-tabulated survey data.

-   Ability to write reports, presentations and general business correspondence

-   Ability to work extremely effectively both as part of team and independently

-    A self-motivated person who has delivered consistent revenue through strategic sales solutions

-    Social Media experience required.

-    Benefits: Generous profit share, equity after two years

-    Minimum new business target starts at R5 million per annum

Plus profit share as follows

• Gross Profit share on all new business brought in, this will be paid quarterly

• GP share will be based on 10% of the GP per new account for the first 12 months the account is with the agency, 5%  of GP per new account for the second 12 months the account remains with the agency

• Earns profit share on each new account they bring in for the first 24 months the account is with the agency, thereafter the profit share on the account falls away as the responsibility lies with the Client Service team to retain and grow the account and they are rewarded accordingly

• The GP share incentive is structured to incentivise and reward to keep bringing in new business, which is their only responsibility. Their annual earnings could easily exceed 500k to R1 million if they bring in 3-4 new accounts per year.

The ability to earn Equity is also on the table based on the following;

• 10% when they’ve brought in R20 million of new business

• Another 10% when they’ve brought in another R30 million, allowing them to earn a 20% stake in      the agency.

Introduction

A Large marketing company is looking for a high calibre Traffic Manager/Project Manager.

The Main Purpose of the Job

The company is looking for a hard-wired time manager who has between three to five years’ experience. Agency experience would be preferable, but is not essential, if you've got the character to manage a creative team efficiently and ruthlessly, then this is for you. Expertise and sound knowledge of Chase is a must along with additional project to project financial experience. This company needs a very strong process and time manager to join the largest consumer experience agency in SA. In return for some crazy ideas, some long hours and a fair amount of fun, you'll get to work on the best blue-chip brands in South Africa.

Job Requirements

• Thorough knowledge of Chase

• Degree in Marketing or Finance

• Ability to calmly manage creative teams.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Excellent relationship management skills

• Strict and unwavering time management skills.

• Understanding and experience in Brand Activation preferable.

• Manage multiple projects from concept through to completion

• Additional financial/budgetary management abilities

• Good language skills

• Good time management skills

• Ability to work under pressure

• Attention to detail

• Proficiency in Excel