The Role
The Associate Director will lead high-profile B2B communication strategies in the Energy sector, ensuring quality delivery and client satisfaction while managing team dynamics and business growth.
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ABOUT US
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THE ROLE
Edelman Middle East has an immediate opening for an experienced (B2B) Associate Director within our Energy practice.
Your role is to lead on some of the agency’s biggest mandates and be a senior partner for clients, providing them with strategic counsel around the implementation of their communications programmes. The candidate will also be responsible for devising new communications strategies for a variety of clients and ensuring account teams are delivering against client commitments with high-quality work. The candidate will be able to deliver strategic thinking as well as excellence in operations.
KEY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- You will act as Subject Matter Expert and participate in key pitches and client meetings.
- You will provide support to private sector and governmental clients across the Middle East.
- Builds strong relationships with clients and maintains strong external sector-specific relationships and networks.
- Guides clients and teams to achieve business objectives with strategic and creative ideas that yield real impact.
- You will be the senior client point of contact, accountable for overall profitability, quality, relationship, and client satisfaction of corporate clients owned and served in Middle East market.
- Partners with the business manager and resource manager to ensure profitability targets and allocations are being met.
- Accountable for developing and operationalizing Client Development Plans: growth and diversification of the business, including identifying, generating, and coordinating organic growth opportunities; and team, including sharing best practice, coordinating efforts, identifying gaps and training staff.
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
- At least 10 years’ experience within an agency environment – Middle East experience would be a bonus.
- Experience in the Energy or Oil and Gas sector is a must.
- Excellent level of written and spoken English. Arabic writing would be a bonus.
- Excellent interpersonal communications skills, and can work in an agile, lean environment in which we collaborate in real-time with clients and partners.
- Track record developing and executing successful communications strategies and programmes.
- Possess strong leadership qualities and have in-depth experience effectively managing a group and helping employees grow.
- Excellent attention to detail and project management skills
- Excellent understanding of the media landscape, and ability to collaborate and communicate with multiple internal stakeholders, including strategic planning and creative.
- Demonstrate ability to lead and convert new business opportunities.
- Experience managing finances, including budget development, management, resourcing and forecasting.
- Team player who is focused on developing a collaborative work ethic within account teams and is committed to ensuring an excellent work environment.
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.
f 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.
We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
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The Company
What We Do
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We develop powerful ideas and tell magnetic stories that move at the speed of news, make an immediate impact, transform culture and spark movements.
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