Account & Production Manager
Intermarkets
Total years of experience :27 years, 4 Months
Keeping all Production Management responsibilities yet leading, planning & delegation jobs with the production team. Understand the clients' needs and objectives and liaise closely with them throughout campaigns, often on a daily basis. Managing administrative and campaign work and ensuring that both campaign & production projects are completed on time and within budget.
Achievements:
Managing a portfolio of accounts
Attending meetings with clients
Customer Relation Management
Ensure the account is running profitably for the agency
Ensure the client is getting the best results from the whole agency team
Responsibilities:
Act as the client's liaison with the agency and balance the input of the various agency departments, ensuring it meets the client's objective
Know all there is to know about the client’s product or service, the market and its consumer
Understand the client's marketing objectives in terms of sales, market-share, competitor products
Brief the media department so it can develop the media strategy
Prepare the creative brief, which is the foundation of the advertisements the creative team will produce
Oversee the various production stages every advertisement goes through
Assist the client in solving marketing problems
Ensure the advertising is created on time and on budget.
INTERMARKETS
Involved in the pre-production (planning) stage as well as the production (control and supervision) stage. A large part of production management involves dealing with people both client & studio team.
Achievements:
Customer Relation Management
Auditing Accounts
Large Production Houses Database.
Pricing & Quoting.
Responsibilities:
Quoting & defining company’s best interest.
Overseeing the production process, drawing up a production schedule;
Monitoring product standards and implementing quality-control
Estimating costs and setting the quality standards.
Production process supervision.
Dealing with the suppliers.
Interacting & maintaining good relationship with customers.
Briefing both account directors & creative studio
Developed the design department from a printing design department to a creative design department.
Converted the design department to a profitable entity.
Restructured the department to meet market changing needs.
Arranged & implemented training for new recruits.
Responsibilities:
Coaching & managing eight designers & technical personnel.
Developing a creative design department inspired by team work & enthusiasm.
Brain storming & briefing.
Identifying customers’ needs & creating design solutions accordingly.
Pricing & quoting.
Allocating jobs to the designers according to their skills & potentials.
Supervising DTP jobs to deliver a finished product meeting the client’s requirement.
Business development through sustaining the current business, obtaining more business from existing accounts, & adding new accounts.
Interacting & maintaining good relationship with customers.