The Associate Director, Brand is a growth steward of the client relationship and is entrusted and empowered to ensure both the client's and our business objectives are met. This is a high collaboration role - bringing the best solution for the client from an array of our specialty teams - brand, digital, creative, strategy, research, editorial, and sector specialty teams.
You will effectively manage several clients, projects, and teams while delivering integrated thinking to bring ideas to life, rooted in data and insight. Based in Jakarta, you will connect to the best of Edelman's regional and global brand teams on any given day.
**Responsibilities**:
- End-to-end owner and driver of fully integrated campaigns.
- Manage large government sector clients primarily on retainer and projects.
- Comfortable managing senior client stakeholder relationships across a range of industries.
- Exceed client expectations by staying ahead of communication effectiveness, B2C and B2B audience trends, digital, creative, industries, and markets in which clients operate.
- Bring in new capabilities against client needs - based on Edelman IP, insights, best practices, and methodologies, as well as external experts.
- Assembles, builds and leads integrated teams: active role in talent hires, training and development, and culture.
- Measures, monitors, and advances client-agency relationships.
- Strong grasp of client health and financials, budget management, forecasting, and operations.
**Requirements**:
- At least 10 years of Integrated Brand Marketing experience, from agency roles.
- Stellar track record in integrated campaign management and delivery.
- Experience working to pull together diverse teams, especially in today's hybrid work environment.
- Strong understanding of earned media and how to maximize integrated campaigns to generate earned stories and buzz.
- Hunger for growth and willingness to take risks - new business opportunities as well as going deep in existing client business.
- Ability to represent the agency and the client in a polished, professional, and intelligent manner.
- Ability to drive reporting, insight, and action with data and analytics, and an ability to report across earned, owned, and paid platforms.
- Ability to effectively prioritize and solve complex problems while making decisions with an entrepreneurial mindset.
- Digitally savvy, with strong knowledge of digital integration within client solutions.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate and inspire staff, peers, and clients.
- Effective team leader with the highest creative, ethical, and legal standards rooted in open and honest communication, ensuring diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- 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 and act with certainty, earning the trust of their stakeholders. Our honors include the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for PR; Advertising Age's 2019 A-List; the Holmes Report's 2018 Global Digital Agency of the Year; and, five times, Glassdoor's Best Places to Work. Since our founding in 1952, we have remained an independent, family-run business. Edelman owns specialty companies Edelman Data & Intelligence (DxI) and United Entertainment Group (entertainment, sports, lifestyle).