Account Executive
medialinks
Total years of experience :15 years, 0 Months
• Includes meeting and liaising with clients to discuss and identify their advertising requirements.
• Work very closely to the Managing Director to devise an advertising campaign that meets the client’s brief and budget.
• Presenting, alongside agency colleagues- particularly the Managing Director, the campaign ideas and budget to the client.
• Working to brief media, creative and production staff, and assisting with the formulation of marketing strategies.
• Liaising with, and acting as the link between, the client and advertising agency by maintaining regular contact with both, ensuring that communication flows effectively.
• Negotiating with clients and agency staff about the details of campaigns.
• Presenting creative work to clients for approval or modification.
• Handling budgets, managing campaign costs and invoicing clients.
• Writing client status reports, monitoring the effectiveness of campaigns, undertaking administration tasks.
• Arranging and attending meetings.
• Making ‘pitches’, along with other agency staff, to try to win new business for the agency.
• Writing and organizing annual and monthly Mediaplans for clients.
• Liaising with suppliers and production team for costings and implementation.
• Includes meeting and liaising with clients to discuss and identify their advertising requirements.
• Work very closely to the Managing Director to devise an advertising campaign that meets the client’s brief and budget.
• Presenting, alongside agency colleagues- particularly the Managing Director, the campaign ideas and budget to the client.
• Working to brief media, creative and production staff, and assisting with the formulation of marketing strategies.
• Liaising with, and acting as the link between, the client and advertising agency by maintaining regular contact with both, ensuring that communication flows effectively.
• Negotiating with clients and agency staff about the details of campaigns.
• Presenting creative work to clients for approval or modification.
• Handling budgets, managing campaign costs and invoicing clients.
• Writing client status reports, monitoring the effectiveness of campaigns, undertaking administration tasks.
• Arranging and attending meetings.
• Making ‘pitches’, along with other agency staff, to try to win new business for the agency.
• Writing and organizing annual and monthly Mediaplans for clients.
• Liaising with suppliers and production team for costings and implementation.
PROJECTS AND CAMPAIGNS:
- Zayani motors, June Junoon summer sale campaign
-Zayani Motors, May Madness summer sale campaign
• Bapco 2010- 12 x 12 Safety campaign
• Zayani Motors- Launching of Peugeot 508, 308 and RCZ.
• Zayani Motors- Campaigns for Mitsubishi, MG and Peugeot with all kinds of advertisements and showroom branding.
• Zayani Motors- May Madness campaign (Summer sale)
• Play playground, Seef Mall- Launch and Branding.
Mena Telecom Manama, Bahrain
Personal Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer
August 2009-June 2010
• Work closely with the CEO and provide administrative support
• Welcoming and looking after visitors
• Organizing and maintaining the CEO diary and appointments
• Dealing with correspondence and writing letters
• Take dictation in Minutes of Meetings
• Producing documents, briefing reports and presentations
• Writing Daily reports and uptakes of sales in branches and daily sales of prepaid calling cards
• Writing weekly reports on corporate business sales and updates on different tasks
• Carrying out background research and presenting findings into subject the manager is dealing with • Arranging business trips and book his flights/hotels
• Organizing meetings such as board meetings and other business and internal meetings
• Liaising with clients, suppliers and other staff
• Helping the Corporate Communication Department in Marketing if time permits
• Assisted in organizing press conference for product launch.
Abu Dhabi Investment House Manama, Bahrain
Trainee, November 2007 - January 2008
• Worked in real estate, investment, and corporate communication departments.
• Involved in marketing and promoting new projects in the Corporate Communication department, such as The Lagoon in Amwaj islands, Sunset Hills and Portareef.
• Assisted in preparing and issuing press releases dealing with different kinds of Bahrain's media and journalists.
• Helped with organizing events such as the staff annual celebration in Banyan Tree.
• Create databases for existing and potential investors or clients in several departments such as the Real Estate and the Corporate Communications department.
• Involved in clientele relationships in the Real Estate department for Sunset Hills, Al Areen project, and The Lagoon.
Swinburne University, August 2010- June 2011 Melbourne VIC, Australia • Master of Commerce (Marketing)
Griffith University, March 2007 - December 2008 Brisbane QLD, Australia • Bachelor of Business - Business Management and Marketing
Queensland Institute of Business and Technology, October 2005 - February 2007 Brisbane QLD, Australia • Diploma of Commerce
Bahrain Bayan School, 1991 - 2005 Isa Town, Bahrain • American High School Diploma