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The Role
Edelman Australia is looking for a hungry, highly motivated Senior Account Manager to join its team. To work on clients such as HP, Microsoft, Juniper and Geotab.
This is an exciting opportunity for a smart, passionate candidate who wants to accelerate their career working with some of the world’s leading technology brands.
You will be able to confidently manage teams, maintaining motivation and keep to tight deadlines, and ensuring attention to detail throughout campaign delivery.
You’ll also have experience in developing plans which take complex technology and translate it into meaningful benefits for business and society. Your strong creative thinking is needed. You will be a strong writer and be able to create and manage budgets.
You will have supreme B2B and B2C technology media relations, as well as a little black book of media contacts. We want to hear about how your campaign ideas have translated into media and digital results. Finally, you will have extensive experience working with multi-market teams.
Both the role and the clients we work with are exciting and fast-paced – you will need to be a quick thinker and strong multi-tasker, ready to staff media events, organise multi-market briefs, and pull together campaign recaps at the bat of an eye.
Responsibilities
- Client liaison – day-to-day client contact
- Proactive thinking – around campaigns and in day-to-day account work
- Effective management of the team down, across and up
- Demonstration of creative campaign development and presentation, promoting technology solutions to business and consumer audiences via PR and digital routes
- Working knowledge of social listening tools
- Collaboration with the global account team
- Strategic media relations/digital skills
- B2B and B2C tech experience is preferred but not essential
- Developing and managing multi-market budgets
Experience Required
- Proven track record of working in or with global technology brands
- Experience in developing plans which take complex technology and translates it into meaningful benefits for business and potentially consumers
- Creative storyteller with a natural curiosity in the arts and broader cultural life and societal trends
- Use of digital and other technologies for storytelling and communications
- Proven leadership skills with the ability to inspire and unite teams behind a central concept, with experience of successfully selling in concepts and seeing them through to execution
- Strong technology media relations and social media skills and contacts in the B2B and B2C space, having proof of how your feature ideas have translated into media and digital coverage
Edelman is committed to creating equality and diversity in our workforce. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, nationality, disability gender or age. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply.
