Description

As the Senior Account Director, you will be dedicated to servicing the world largest client in IT industry, including communication plan development and account management in general.

You’ll champion dynamic thinking and faultless execution within the team, and be an ambassador for Maxus, ensuring our very best collaborative strategic and executional planning process and practices are delivered consistently.

Alongside client responsibilities, you will develop and nurture the cross-discipline team, creating energy and strong sense of shared focus while also managing the careers and talent growth with individuals in the team.

You’ll have a proven track record of client leadership in a media agency or related communications business.
(the ideal candidate will already be Account/Business Director, or equivalent level)

매체 경력 10년 이상의 부장/부국장 급 채용: Over 10 years experiences in Media, fluent Korean and English is required.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to the Country Head/Client Partner of Maxus Korea.

3 best things about the job:

• This position gets to lead a large team which is working for the most sophisticated tech company, leading a trend across online and offline in the new technologies.
• International environment of young, hungry, and motivated digital marketing professionals.
• You’ll be working closely with multiple stakeholders within the GroupM network, giving you exposure to both client-side and Group-side regional leadership

Measures of success

In three months:

• Been ‘the client inside’ representing your client’s interests in Maxus and ensure exceptional service delivery across their business
• Been exposed to all related stakeholders, and you will start Portfolio account planning , Strategic direction/coordination and Client servicing/relationship building
• Demonstrated real enthusiasm for your clients’ businesses and brands. Being an ambassador for Maxus and media within their organizations

In six months:

• Lead, inspire and motivate your team, Ensure that your every member works in a professional manner with all stakeholders both internal and external
• Champion a mindset of award-winning work and produce case studies by collaborating with the region and the global MKT team

In 12 months:

• Champion excellent communications planning across the client business, overseeing the output of the cross-discipline team to ensure first-class application of the Maxus product
• Built collaborative relationships with clients of all levels and drive integration with the partner agency, Essence 

Responsibilities of the role:

This position’s responsibilities will be

• Delivery of client servicing in quality & relationship building with all level of clients

• Develop portfolio account planning, implementation and performance tracking across multi-media channels

• Leading the dedicated account team with clear strategic direction

• Assist Client Partner to manage the entire team and coordinate with multiple stakeholders 

What you will need:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English and Korean
• Sufficient knowledge and experience on Korea media landscape in general and proficient understanding about digital media and measurements
• Being the agency figurehead on all your client business, bring all facets of the Maxus offering together to produce fist class overall Maxus output
• Ability to get on the front foot; ensure that all client manifestos are met and develop new opportunities to discuss with clients
• Business leadership to suggest and develop new revenue streams / new ways of working
• Curiosity to explore all avenues of information to achieve results with research, trends and data on markets, customers and culture
• Basic understanding on analytics

About Maxus

Maxus Global is an international media agency within the WPP / GroupM network.  We are the fastest growing agency within the group and we have huge ambitions to continue to grow and develop innovative and engaging 21st century communications ideas for our clients.  Born in the digital era our expertise in media, technology, data, effectiveness and strategy is well established and always evolving as the media landscape continues to change.

We still enjoy all the benefits of a smaller challenger brand agency culture but as part of GroupM (WPP’s amalgamated media agency resource) Maxus reaps all the positive benefits of a large agency network and our appointment by large clients such as Huawei, Barclays Google and L’Oréal is testament to this.

What you can expect from Maxus

Our philosophy at Maxus is Leading Change.  This simply means that we are in the business change.  We often accelerate its pace by continually discovering, evaluating and delivering new techniques to navigate the media landscape.  As a young agency, we have an unfair advantage in today’s highly complex media environment, and are the only network designed around change.  We believe our approach allows people to develop a wide range of skills which enable them to have more intelligent conversations with clients about the entire communication process.  In an increasingly fragmented media landscape, we consider this essential.

About GroupM
GroupM Korea is the leading global media investment management operation in Korea. It serves as the parent company to WPP media agencies, Maxus, MediaCom, MEC and MindShare.

Its primary purpose is to maximize the performance of WPP’s media communications agencies on behalf of our clients, our shareholders and our people by operating as a parent and collaborator in performance-enhancing activities such as trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. The agencies that comprise GroupM are all global operations in their own right with leading market positions.

The focus of GroupM is the intelligent application of physical and intellectual scale to benefit trading, innovation, and new communication services.

GroupM APAC is committed to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our people are our strength so we respect and nurture their individual talent and potential.