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Account Director, Energy (Arabic Speaker)

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About Us

Edelman is a new kind of agency, at the intersection of PR, Advertising, Social, Digital, Earned Media and Experiential. We blur the lines between each medium to create smart, innovative, and powerful work that gets people talking and engaging with brands in new ways. You will be challenged to push convention and your creativity to find modern ways to drive consumer behavior in today's socially charged, digital environment.

About Us

Edelman is a new kind of agency, at the intersection of PR, Advertising, Social, Digital, Earned Media and Experiential. We blur the lines between each medium to create smart, innovative, and powerful work that gets people talking and engaging with brands in new ways. You will be challenged to push convention and your creativity to find modern ways to drive consumer behavior in today's socially charged, digital environment.

We are passionate, unconventional, and driven by a desire to do the best work possible. We get results for our clients and have the trophies to prove it. We are tough on work. We are kind to each other. We also laugh a lot

The Role

We are looking for an Account Director to join our Energy Practice team in the region on a secondment basis. In this role, you will be responsible for managing relations with the client, identifying opportunities to further strengthen the partnership and unlock potential growth. You will also be expected to lead and support a team, ensuring that all day-to-day responsibilities and deliverables are met with excellence.

Key Roles And Responsibilities

• Identifying potential leads and areas of growth within existing clients as well as broader opportunities from a prospecting perspective
• Overseeing client programmes and driving integrated campaigns.
• Taking responsibility for a portfolio of accounts and managing teams, developing junior team members, and line management responsibilities.
• Directing media engagement strategy for clients and coaching teams to activate and deliver coverage, leading from the front.
• Strong understanding of sector landscape - energy and industrials not just on a local level, to help inform clients of best practice, share recommendations, and protect client interests and reputation.
• Ability to develop accurate commercials and contributed to new business development to grow the Edelman business.
  
  

Knowledge And Skills

• 7-8 years' experience working with leading agencies.
• Experience working with clients in the energy industry sector is key.
• Experience working in the corporate sector is a must.
• Strong knowledge and experience in putting together communication strategies, tactical planning, and being the client lead.
• Ability to foster strong relations with clients, ultimately ensuring work is complete, delivered on time and earning their trust.
• Writing skills is a given - ability to offer juniors constructive feedback on how to strengthen content pieces.
• selling in those concepts to clients and seeing them through to execution.
  
  

What's in it for you?

• An opportunity to shape your future and work with some of the smartest and most energetic people in the PR industry, who will nurture, challenge and enable you.
• We offer hybrid work environment where you can work from home twice in a week.
• Big potential for personal growth, training, and further development of skills
• A dynamic, collaborative and inclusive culture, where diversity is embraced - and you are celebrated and appreciated for who you are.
• A huge variety of virtual learning and development resources to support your personal and professional growth.
  
  

If you apply, we will review your fit against the position criteria and feedback to you. If your profile does not meet the criteria, we will retain your profile as an active applicant for future consideration.

Seniority level

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type Full-time

Job function

• Job function Advertising, Public Relations, and Marketing
• Industries Public Relations and Communications Services and Advertising Services

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