Senior Account Manager (PR) - BFSI

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Mumbai, Maharashtra
Hybrid
Senior level
Agency
The Role
The Senior Account Manager at Edelman is responsible for client management, project execution, and business development. The role involves leading a team, managing client relationships, securing new business opportunities, and ensuring quality service. The position emphasizes technical inputs, negotiation, and maintaining knowledge bases, while also overseeing budgets and team training.
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Edelman is a voice synonymous with trust, reimagining a future where the currency of communication is action. Our culture thrives on three promises: boldness is possibility, empathy is progress, and curiosity is momentum. 


At Edelman, we understand diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) transform our colleagues, our company, our clients, and our communities. We are in relentless pursuit of an equitable and inspiring workplace that is respectful of all, reflects and represents the world in which we live, and fosters trust, collaboration and belonging.


Role Specifications:


Project Management

Assume responsibility for client management.

Set priorities and manage a team of staff in executing projects.

Assume overall responsibility for control, documentation and other issues.

 

Project Execution/ Client Servicing

Provide technical inputs, analysis, conceptualising solutions, preparing reports and presentations.

Communication with clients and raise new conversations with them. Take charge of client meetings.

Support AD/ Director to negotiate on behalf of clients where necessary and manage client perception with respect to the project.

Responsible for maintaining and updating the information base and knowledge requirements of the group.

 

Business Development

Identify and keep seniors appraised of opportunities to market services, generate visibility by participating in seminars etc.

• Generate ideas for transaction in terms of best practices, new techniques for executing jobs, structuring deals and be aware of key issues in negotiations.

Be involved in deal generation.


Professional Development

Keep abreast of new developments in profession, business and the regulatory environment.

Develop the knowledge management data for practice.

Build a good network with peers and professionals in the field.

 

Relationship Development

Maintain cross – office interaction.

Initiate cross – group interaction.

Leading a team of AEs / SAEs / AMs.


Collections

Follow up for collections.

 

Supervision exercised

Overall supervision of the team’s work, in execution of assignments, monitor project costs

Can take decisions relating to client service, keeping the AD/ Director informed.

Plan and sanction training and development needs for the team keeping the AD/ Director informed.

Allocate employee to various assignments keeping the AD/ Director informed.

 

Qualifications & Skills:


Educational Qualifications

A Post Graduate qualification in Business Administration or a professional qualification in the field of public relations/ marketing communication or advertising.

 

Experience

Minimum of 8 to 10 years of experience in public relations or communication after post-graduation.

 

Skills

A Senior Account Manager must be able to manage the budgets and account teams on sizable pieces of business. The SAM has agency-wide responsibility for account profitability, new business solicitation, and quality of account service and employee development. S/he must possess superior communication skills and be able to counsel clients’ top executive management on public relations and marketing issues. In addition, this individual must be able to multi-task efficiently.

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.

The Company
Atlanta, GA
6,475 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1952

What We Do

Edelman is a global communications firm that partners with businesses and organizations to evolve, promote and protect their brands and reputations. Our 6,000 people in more than 60 offices deliver communications strategies that give our clients the confidence to lead, act with certainty and earn the lasting trust of their stakeholders.

We develop powerful ideas and tell magnetic stories that move at the speed of news, make an immediate impact, transform culture and spark movements.

Since our founding in 1952 by Dan Edelman, we have remained an independent, family-run company. We use our profits to strengthen our business, provide our employees with opportunities to grow, advance our industry, and serve as a responsible citizen of the world. Every day, we strive to live and work by a long-held set of core values: the pursuit of excellence, the freedom to be curious, the courage to do the right thing, and a commitment to improving society.

Edelman is an equal opportunity employer of all protected classes, including veterans and individuals with disabilities

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