About the Role  

Senior Account Executive (PR) is a communications professional who is capable of handling a wide range of projects and clients with a high degree of independence and sound judgement. Senior Account Executive has the ability and experience to play a primary, independent implementation role in client work. This person must possess a deep understanding of PR in Vietnam and be able to come up with creative initiatives to help clients solve their business or communication objectives. 

What You’ll Do 

Account Management: 

• Serve as the daily client contact and take the lead on client interactions when appropriate. 

• Oversee the quality and operational performance of accounts, ensuring high standards and adherence to deadlines. 

• Collaborate with an internal team (Planning, Creative, Data) to deliver on strategic plan, execution actions to meet client’s objectives. 

• Collaborate with existing clients and team members to identify business needs and objectives, crafting strategies and plans to achieve the clients’ goals. 

• Act as the anchor for project teams, ensuring accountability, tracking timelines, and delivering on client deadlines with the highest quality of work. 

• Liaise with existing clients, prospective clients, vendors, and internal teams, attending meetings, tracking progress and ensure proper action taken 
• Perform administrative tasks to make sure the business is run smoothly including tracking, recording, and ensuring timely payments from clients and to vendors. 

Expertise Performance: 

• Demonstrate proficiency in crafting effective communications materials, including internal and client correspondence, communications plans, press materials, pitch deck, speeches, training materials. 

• Demonstrate familiarity and stability in managing events, vendors, and partnerships. 

• Build and maintain strong media relations across industries, influencer relation being a plus. 
• Monitor and promptly report communication risks, coordinating responses with clients and other relevant internal and external stakeholders. 

Business Development: 

• Understand clients' businesses and identify opportunities to expand services and grow our business with them. 
• Play a key role in researching, planning, and developing comprehensive communications marketing campaigns and new business proposals. 

Team Coordination: 

• Participate as an engaged, positive, and supportive team member, helping colleagues to learn and grow in their roles. 

• Providing guidance and support for junior members in the team. 

What You’ll Need  

• 2-3 years of experience in PR, Communication, or IMC projects, either in an agency or corporate team. Experience managing multiple accounts, clients, media and influencer relationship is a plus. 

• Experience in the tech, education, or creative industries is a plus. 

• Strong ability to oversee multiple projects, ensuring quality work and timely delivery. 

• Proven track record of building and maintaining strong media relationships across industries, with the ability to leverage networks for client visibility. 

• Skilled in developing content such as communication plans, articles, interviews, speeches, and press materials in both Vietnamese and English. 

• Excellent Vietnamese and English written and verbal communication skills, with experience in client correspondence, press releases, presenting strategies, negotiation, leading meetings, hosting media, and brainstorming with influencers and reporters for social media content and editorial pieces. 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to find effective solutions for both client and internal tasks. 

• Capable of collaborating across teams, clients, vendors, and media partners. 

• Attention to detail, including tracking payments and maintaining accurate records of transactions for timely processing. 

How We’ll Support You 

Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.