Role: Account Manager

Location: Panama City, Panama 

ROLE MISSION

Working in partnership with our client, the Account Manager will develop and build strong relationships with the local clients, becoming a trusted and valued advisor and delivery specialist. The role delivers an exceptional level of client service and creative thinking, as well as having an active role in driving efficiencies and lead growth across all of the categories including Originals, Football, Running, to name a few  

ABOUT THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING

Reporting to the Senior Account Manager, the Account Manager oversees the portfolio of in-market campaigns and its cultural nuances.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING IN YOUR ROLE

• Understand the importance of brands and working within brand guidelines.
• A deep understanding of the business; their needs, expectations and requirements in order to provide the best service and solution through close partnership in the key market.
• Experience with global creative toolkits, market adaptations, and localisations.
• The pro-actively own and manage local client engagement and relationship management.
• Effective project management through the full lifecycle using project governance as directed by the client – receiving and interrogating briefs, attending and driving regular client and internal status meetings, escalating issues and proactively resolving problems, managing project resource and spend and making critical decisions.
• The ability to drive and motivate a team and project through to successful completion.
• Run account meetings and take responsibility for service levels and KPIs.
• Work closely with clients to create strong concepts from initial briefing. Understanding the local nuances to their local markets.
• You will be working with our global stakeholders and providing insightful feedback. This role is key for connecting global and local teams.
• Work closely with production leads and creatives to develop a brief from beginning to end.
• You ideally need to come from a background in production with a strong delivery background. You should already understand the process and nuances for delivery high volumes of adaptation work.
• Growing strong relationships with the different agencies, including their, creative origination agencies, media agencies, printers etc. Being the central point to ensure we get the work from the creative agencies on time and deliver to the media agencies and printers to their timelines.
• A strong passion for sport and particularly for the adidas brand.
• Ideally a strong background in a retail environment, both online and offline.

WHAT SKILLS WILL HELP YOU BE SUCCESSFUL 

• The ability to manage both individual and project workloads and identifying challenges and risks within them. You will work with your SAM on mitigation and solutions to ensure we deliver to brief.
• Executional rigour, competent in multitasking and great organisational skills.
• The ability to combine and translate complex material from different sources and contexts into stories and content that engage and resonate with in-market target audience.
• Competent in presenting and communicating ideas to clients.
• Experience working with retail and with sports products.
• 3-4 years of relevant experience in: Paid Media,  Digital & Programmatic, Print, Social, OOH, Retail, Production, Adapting and Activating Toolkits  

ABOUT OUR COMPANY

Lots of agencies say they're different. OLIVER is.

OLIVER believes that agencies work better inside a brand's organisation; delivering more effective work at the speed required to drive modern businesses forward. Using our unique Inside Intelligence methodology, we build specialist, dedicated in-house agencies that collaborate with clients to form better marketing solutions.

Established in 2004, our model is now driven by over 2000 people, working across more than 200 in-house agencies globally. Clients include The Guardian, Unilever, Barclaycard, PepsiCo, AXA, The AA, Adidas, BMW, Post Office, and 3M. OLIVER is part of the Inside Ideas Group (IIG), which also includes a global content agency to Adjust your Set, design, experience, and engineering company DARE and property marketing specialists Aylesworth Fleming.

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OUR VALUES

We are a company built on our values, we have given you a brief overview below but would love to tell you more.

Be Ambitious to succeed

Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible

Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work

Be always learning and listening to understand

Be Results-focused to exceed expectations

Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations

We've set ambitious, market-leading environmental and social goals around sustainability at OLIVER. We have committed to be net zero by 2030 and take far-reaching action on DE&I in the sector. We expect everyone to contribute to our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle. 

Inside Ideas Group and its affiliates are equal opportunity employers committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected.  All [suitable] applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.